Consume
[kən'sjuːm] or [kən'sʊm]
解釋/意思:
(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'.
伊莱扎錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
埃弗雷特編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Destroy, waste, spend, expend, exhaust, devour, lavish, squander, dissipate, use up.
手打:马吉
同義詞及反義詞：
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
艾弗里校對
解釋/意思:
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.
亚历山大校對
例句/造句/用法:
- If you are one of those who want us to consume it, I differ from you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- 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. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- 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. 神奇的知識之書.
- She threw morsel by morsel into the fire, and stood pensively watching them consume. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- 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. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It is for this reason that we consume a large quantity of food. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I don't deny that the course of action I am now suggesting will cost money, and consume time. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed you sit among the ruins, and lament the fall. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- 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. 十九世紀發明進展.
- This sets in motion a train of wheels carrying the hands over the dials which mark the quantity of gas consumed. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- This would be the case, even upon the supposition that the whole French goods imported were to be consumed in Great Britain. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He has consumed all ours that I can spare. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Nor will the closest inspection of a formation give us any idea of the length of time which its deposition may have consumed. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The value, therefore, of what has been consumed and produced during these six months, is equal, not to ten, but to twenty pounds. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- On a meat dietary men can live without salt, but grain-consuming people need it just as herbivorous animals need it. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The pin-setter relieves the boy of the major and most time-consuming part of this work. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- With Johnston and him combined, a long, tedious, and expensive campaign, consuming most of the summer, might become necessary. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- 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. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He was inspired by a consuming passion for a new order of human life. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But it may be seriously questioned whether in the aggregate Edison's visitors are less numerous or less time-consuming than his epistolary besiegers. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- They fought with desperate valor, but to no purpose; the odds of heat and numbers, and consuming thirst, were too great against them. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- On the other hand, she consumes so many pounds of beefsteaks and so many pints of porter. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The rich man consumes no more food than his poor neighbour. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I must for ever conceal the wretchedness that consumes me. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The annual output in wheels consequently consumes about 4,000,000 pounds, or 2,000 tons of rubber. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Why not lie down and rest myself, and try to quench the fever that consumes me, in sleep? 威爾基·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. 神奇的知識之書.
校對:尼古拉斯