expenditure

Policies of tax reduction must lead to reduced public expenditure.

减税政策必然导致公共开支减少。

The change cut their expenditures in half, but the new living arrangement proved too challenging.

这一变化使他们的开支减少了一半，但新的生活安排太具有挑战性了。

This study represents a major expenditure of time and effort.

这项研究意味着要耗费大量的时间和精力。

In rejecting exercise, some people may be discouraged too much by caloric expenditure charts: for example, one would have to briskly walk three miles just to work off the 275 calories in one delicious Danish pastry.

在拒绝运动时，一些人可能会因为热量消耗图表而过于沮丧：例如，一个人必须轻快地走三英里路，仅仅是为了消耗掉一块美味的丹麦糕点所包含的275卡路里。