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耗费

hào fèi

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 耗費

耗费 (hào fèi) means "to waste; to spend; to consume". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 耗费 means

1. to waste
2. to spend
3. to consume
4. to squander

The characters in 耗费

• 耗hàoto waste; to spend; to consume
• 费fèito cost; to spend; fee

Example sentences

• 整个过程需要耗费数月。
  Zhěnggè guòchéng xūyào hàofèi shùyuè.
  The whole process will take months.
• 有关癌症成因的研究耗费颇巨。
  Yǒuguān áizhèng chéngyīn de yánjiū hàofèi pō jù.
  Research on the causes of cancer is very expensive.
• 撇开费用不说，建这座桥也会耗费不少的时间。
  Piēkāi fèiyòng bù shuō, jiàn zhè zuò qiáo yě huì hàofèi bù shǎo de shíjiān.
  Apart from the cost, it will take long to build the bridge.
• 这意味着对利用能源、耗费资金和制造污染的空调的使用有了大幅增长。
  Zhè yìwèizhe duì lìyòng néngyuán, hàofèi zījīn hé zhìzào wūrǎn de kōngtiáo de shǐyòng yǒule dàfú zēngzhǎng.
  It means a huge increase in the use of air conditioning which uses energy, which costs money and creates pollution.

Where 耗费 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · háng–hé (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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