The expenditure of energy is essentially a process of budgeting, just as finances are budgeted.

能源支出本质上是一个预算编制的过程，就像财务预算一样。

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Each of functions of the body, even thinking, requires the expenditure of energy.

每一项身体的功能，甚至思考，都需要能量的消耗。

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As a conclusion, time is formed on the expenditure of energy of matter micro particles containing life.

由此可见，时间是能量在含有生命现象的物质微粒上的消耗而形成的。

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Being in a warmer environment,up to a point, will lead to decreased energy expenditure and therefore, at the same amount of food intake,weight gain."

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In the case of energy expenditure, how many calories people were burning, there wasn't quite such a difference, but again, it was in the favor of the individuals, that the people were estimating they burned this many calories from physical activity, but this is actually the number that they burned.

就能量消耗来说,人们消耗了多少卡路里,两者之间的差异并不是如此巨大,但又一次,由于人们的一厢情愿,人们估算从体育活动中,他们消耗了这么多的卡路里,但数据是他们实际消耗的

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What this is all suggests is that the human spirit in its most daring moments has actually manifested physical attenuations of energy expenditure, reducing the tally of total energy consumption by exponential multiples undreamed of a few generations ago.

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We also know that smoking is a thermogenic agent, meaning that nicotine raises the rate of energy expenditure, metabolic rate.

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Overlooking the fact that Will will be shipping in corn from the Midwest, at considerable expenditure of energy, and will, by raising demand for an agricultural staple, boost supermarket bills, New York's governor has fallen in love with the proposed ethanol plant.

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