Consuming
[kən'sjuːmɪŋ] or [kən'sumɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) very intense; 'politics is his consuming passion'; 'overwhelming joy' .
珍妮整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Consume
錄入:罗兰
例句/造句/用法:
- 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.
- There, if I remember, we were about six weeks, consuming our sea stores and obliged to procure more. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- It affords good, active exercise, hilarity, and consuming excitement. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- To show what they mean, however, it might be noted that New York City alone has 3000 stock tickers, consuming 50,000 miles of record tape every year. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Even iron could not remain without consuming in the damps of that infernal dungeon. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- We still consider his revenue as consisting in this power of purchasing or consuming, and not in the pieces which convey it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It is not uncommon to find an outdoor laborer consuming one pound of beans per day, and taking meat only on high days and holidays. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- It has been too intense and consuming. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- As a mere child the busy scenes of the canal and the grain warehouses were of consuming interest, but the work in the ship-building yards had an irresistible fascination. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I reached this one, said my friend, by sitting upon five pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I could not disguise to myself, nor could she conceal, her life-consuming sorrow. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Among his inventions may be mentioned a machine for making fuel from wheat straw, and a smoke-consuming device. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It was consuming beyond its powers of production, but as yet only the inarticulate classes were feeling the pinch. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
錄入:罗兰