Consume

[kən'sjuːm] or [kən'sʊm]

解释:

(verb.) engage fully; 'The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy'.

(verb.) serve oneself to, or consume regularly; 'Have another bowl of chicken soup!'; 'I don't take sugar in my coffee'.

(verb.) use up (resources or materials); 'this car consumes a lot of gas'; 'We exhausted our savings'; 'They run through 20 bottles of wine a week'.

(verb.) spend extravagantly; 'waste not, want not'.

(verb.) destroy completely; 'The fire consumed the building'.

伊莱扎录入--From WordNet

解释:

(v. t.) To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

(v. i.) To waste away slowly.

埃弗雷特编辑

同义词及近义词：

v. a. Destroy, waste, spend, expend, exhaust, devour, lavish, squander, dissipate, use up.

手打:马吉

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Use, appropriate, burn, oat_up, devour, spend, squander, assimilate, occupy,absorb, employ, utilize, waste, destroy, spoil, ravage, expend, pine, wither,decay

ANT:Reject, supersede, disuse, discard

艾弗里校对

解释:

v.t. to destroy by wasting fire evaporation &c.: to use up: to devour: to waste or spend: to exhaust.—v.i. to waste away.—adj. Consum′able.—adv. Consum′edly exceedingly—originally a fantastic variant of confoundedly and prob. influenced in meaning by consummately.—ns. Consum′er as opposed to producer he who uses an article produced; Consum′ing wasting or destroying.

亚历山大校对

例句:

If you are one of those who want us to consume it, I differ from you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
The sun had now got far to the west of south and stood directly in her face, like some merciless incendiary, brand in hand, waiting to consume her. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
The heat-treating department contains about seventy-five large furnaces, which consume from 5,000 to 6,000 gallons of fuel oil per day. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
She threw morsel by morsel into the fire, and stood pensively watching them consume. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
The man who buys, does not always mean to sell again, but frequently to use or to consume; whereas he who sells always means to buy again. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
It is for this reason that we consume a large quantity of food. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
I don't deny that the course of action I am now suggesting will cost money, and consume time. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed you sit among the ruins, and lament the fall. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
The coal in the retorts is not entirely consumed, but is reduced to the condition of coke, and in this form is sold for fuel. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
This sets in motion a train of wheels carrying the hands over the dials which mark the quantity of gas consumed. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
This would be the case, even upon the supposition that the whole French goods imported were to be consumed in Great Britain. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
He has consumed all ours that I can spare. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
Nor will the closest inspection of a formation give us any idea of the length of time which its deposition may have consumed. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
The value, therefore, of what has been consumed and produced during these six months, is equal, not to ten, but to twenty pounds. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
On a meat dietary men can live without salt, but grain-consuming people need it just as herbivorous animals need it. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
The pin-setter relieves the boy of the major and most time-consuming part of this work. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
With Johnston and him combined, a long, tedious, and expensive campaign, consuming most of the summer, might become necessary. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
But he always said to himself, how happy he had been, how he had loved her with a pure and consuming love ever since he had known her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
He was inspired by a consuming passion for a new order of human life. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
But it may be seriously questioned whether in the aggregate Edison's visitors are less numerous or less time-consuming than his epistolary besiegers. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
They fought with desperate valor, but to no purpose; the odds of heat and numbers, and consuming thirst, were too great against them. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
On the other hand, she consumes so many pounds of beefsteaks and so many pints of porter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
The rich man consumes no more food than his poor neighbour. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
I must for ever conceal the wretchedness that consumes me. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
The annual output in wheels consequently consumes about 4,000,000 pounds, or 2,000 tons of rubber. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
Why not lie down and rest myself, and try to quench the fever that consumes me, in sleep? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
It operates from any light socket and consumes but a very small amount of current, much less than is consumed by a toaster. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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