A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
消耗
Expend
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
没有人意识到有些人花费巨大的精力只是为了保持正常。
It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one.
我想，这是我那本愤怒的狄更斯式小说。这是一种宣泄——我在那件事上花费了很多挫折。
I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
我不能问心无愧地要求我的同事花费宝贵的时间和精力为我的过去辩护或解释。我们需要全体人员齐心协力，为未来而战。