also formerly expence, late 14c., "action of spending or giving away, a laying out or expending," also "funds provided for expenses, expense money; damage or loss from any cause," from Anglo-French expense, Old French espense "money provided for expenses," from Late Latin expensa "disbursement, outlay, expense," noun use of neuter plural past participle of Latin expendere "to weigh out money, to pay down" (see expend).
Latin spensa also yielded Medieval Latin spe(n)sa, the sense of which specialized to "outlay for provisions," then "provisions, food" before it was borrowed into Old High German as spisa and became the root of German Speise "food," now mostly meaning prepared food, and speisen "to eat." Expense account is from 1872.
expense (v.)
1909, from expense (n.). Related: Expensed; expensing.
雙語例句
1. Owen was against it, on the grounds of expense.
歐文因費(fèi)用問題對(duì)此表示反對(duì)。
來自柯林斯例句
2. I'll try to save him the expense of a flight from Perth.
我會(huì)設(shè)法替他省下要從珀斯飛來的機(jī)票費(fèi)用。
來自柯林斯例句
3. He put Elizabeth's motel bill and airfare on his expense account.
他將伊麗莎白住汽車旅館的費(fèi)用和機(jī)票費(fèi)用記在他的報(bào)銷賬目中。
來自柯林斯例句
4. It exposes the fallacy of short-term industrial gain at long-term environmental expense.
這暴露了以長久的環(huán)境破壞為代價(jià)換取短期工業(yè)利益的錯(cuò)誤。
來自柯林斯例句
5. The orchestra has more discipline now, but at the expense of spirit.