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英 [?k'sp?nd; ek-]
美[?k'sp?nd]
- vt. 擴張；使膨脹；詳述
- vi. 發展；張開，展開
考試真題
- Britons have cut their spending on itits prices have gone up over the yearsits quality has seen marked improvementBritons have developed the habit of savingIt will expand in time.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- What about supply? The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- It gradually expands with age.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Indeed, even before the steep climb in grain prices in 2008, the number of failing states was expanding.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- When a group of craftsmen expands to include more members, a small craft organization is formed.
出自-2016年12月聽力原文
- Unfortunately, that comfort can hinder the very learning that can expand your company and your career.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- It will help your company expand more rapidly.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- It wants to expand its storage of crude oil.
出自-2014年6月閱讀原文
- To expand its scope of business.
出自-2012年6月閱讀原文
- Learn: Expand your boundaries.
出自-2010年12月閱讀原文
- Houses built before 1939 use about 50% more energy per square foot than those built after 2000, mainly due to the tiny cracks and gaps that expand over time and let in more outside air.
出自-2010年6月閱讀原文
- When that restaurant became very busy, I decided to expand my business.
出自-2011年6月聽力原文
- As a result, the museum plans to expand the hall, as well as add to its ancient birds collection.
2019年12月四級真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- That feeling echoes the beliefs of the Therapeutic Food Pantry program at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, which completed its pilot phase and is about to expand on an ongoing basis to five clinic sites throughout the city.
2018年12月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- The problem is growing as the population of the state continues to expand.
2018年12月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.
2016年6月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- Travelling is a great way to expand your world view, although it can be expensive.
2019年12月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- Unfortunately, that comfort can hinder the very learning that can expand your company and your career.
2015年12月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- Testing innovations do no good unless the good experiments are identified and expanded and the bad ones are dropped.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- The wireless age is expanding to include not just our phones, tablets, and laptops, but also our cars, homes, and even whole communities.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Nations are also pressing ahead with space research and satellite projects to expand their global navigation abilities.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Building on a Soviet-era foothold, Russia is expanding its monitoring stations for Glonass, its version of the Global Positioning System ( ' , GPS).
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- As some countries expand operations in Antarctica, the United States maintains three year-round stations on the continent with more than 1,000 people during the southern hemisphere's summer, including those at the Amundsen-Scott station, built in 1956 at an elevation of 9,301 feet on a plateau at the South Pole.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- It is highly important to expand the metropolitan areas.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- The space dreamers end up benefiting all of us—not just because of the way they expand human knowledge, or because of the spin-off technologies they produce, but because the two types of dreams feed off each other.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- But Bowman's supporters argue that Monsanto is trying to expand the scope of patents in ways that would enrich big corporations and hurt small farmers
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- Expanding the three-year option may be difficult, but it may be less difficult than asking Congress for additional financial help, asking legislators for more state support, or asking students even higher tuition payments.
出自-2012年6月閱讀原文
- As Santiago de la Mora, head of Google Books for Europe, puts it: "By making it possible to search the millions of books that exist today, we hope?to expand the frontiers of human knowledge.
出自-2011年12月閱讀原文
- Prices are good, crowds are fewer and the dividends like expanded worldview, lifelong memories, the satisfaction of boosting the global economy—can't be easily snatched away.
出自-2011年6月聽力原文
- As some countries expand operations in Antarctica, the United States maintains three year-round stations on the continent with more than 1,000 people during the southern hemisphere's summer, including those at the Amundsen-Scott station, built in 1956 at
2016年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- But after General mills bought Epic in 2016, Collins and Forrest suddenly had the resources they needed to expand their supply chain.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- By offering services to help expand the longevity of their products, they're promising quality and durability to consumers and receiving the reputational gains for being environmentally friendly.
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- fish have a refuge in the streams and can expand into the lagoons when the lake is low and the lagoons are separate, Harper said All the lagoons join when the lake is high and fish must retreat to their stream refuges or die.
2017年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- I look forward to seeing researchers expand our understanding of the issue so we can translate it into effective education and policy.
2018年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- Soon, our current smartphone lifestyle will expand to create our own smart home lifestyle too.
2017年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.
2016年12月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- You then have more opportunities to expand your professional network than if you worked alone.
2019年12月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section C
- As their world expanded, she said, children compared themselves to others online in a way that was "hugely damaging in terms of their self-identity, in terms of their confidence, but also in terms of their ability to develop themselves".
2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- For example, people volunteer to express personal values related to unselfishness, to expand their range of experiences, and to strengthen social relationships.
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- It could be expanded across the tube network in coming years.
2016年高考英語上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- Their expanding business became a large corporation in 1996, with three generations of Ans working together.
2015年高考英語安徽卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- But what will be the nature of that difference? Merely expanding the orchestra’s repertoire will not be enough.
出自-2011年考研閱讀原文
- Besides generating income, the presence of other marketers makes the site seem objective, gives companies opportunities to learn valuable information about the appeal of other companies’ marketing, and may help expand user traffic for all companies concerned.
出自-2011年考研閱讀原文
- But even as the number of English speakers expands further there are signs that the global predominance of the language may fade within the foreseeable future.
出自-2017年考研翻譯原文
- As the international education market expands, the recent slowdown in the number of international students studying in the main English-speaking countries is likely to continue, especially if there are no effective strategic policies to prevent such slippage.
出自-2017年考研翻譯原文
- Taxes on low-wage labor need to be cut, and wage subsidies such as the earned income tax credit should be expanded: This would boost incomes, encourage work, reward companies for job creation, and reduce inequality.
出自-2018年考研閱讀原文
- Besides generating income, the presence of other marketers makes the site seem objective, gives companies opportunities to learn valuable information about the appeal of other companies' marketing, and may help expand user traffic for all companies concer
2011年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- But in addition to those trusted coworkers, you should expand your horizons and find out about all the people around you.
2020年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- However, because these connections are made through effort and practice, scientists believe that intelligence can expand and fluctuate according to mental effort.
2014年考研真題（英語一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ