consume
vt. 消耗，消费；使…著迷；挥霍
vi. 耗尽，毁灭；耗尽生命
vt.
消耗，消费；耗尽，毁灭；吃光，喝光；烧毁
变形
过去式：consumed过去分词：consumed现在分词：consuming第三人称单数：consumes
双语释义
v.(动词)vt. 消耗; 消费; 耗尽 use up
vt. 大吃,大喝 eat or drink, especially eagerly or in large amounts
vt. 烧毁,毁灭destroy
英英释义
consume
v.
eat immoderately
同义词：devourdowngo through
serve oneself to, or consume regularly
同义词：ingesttake intakehave
spend extravagantly
同义词：squanderwasteware
destroy completely
"The fire consumed the building"
use up (resources or materials)
"this car consumes a lot of gas"
同义词：eat upuse upeatdepleteexhaustrun throughwipe out
engage fully
"The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
词汇搭配
用作动词 (v.)
～+名词
consume all the hamburgers吃光所有的汉堡
consume the whole city吞噬整个城市
consume time消耗时间
～+副词
consume away烧毁,毁灭
～+介词
be consumed with为(某种思想)而不断受折磨
词组短语
propensity to consume消费倾向
marginal propensity to consume[经]边际消费倾向
同近义词辨析
dine, gorge, have, swallow, eat, devour, consume这组词都有“吃”的意思，其区别是：
dine正式用词，既可指一日三餐中的任何一餐，也可以指特殊的用餐。
gorge侧重指拼命地吃或塞，强调吃饱或吃得过量。
have可与eat换用，但强调一次性的动作。
swallow主要指吃的整个过程的第二部分“咽”，并常指咀嚼得匆匆忙忙地吃。
eat普通用词，使用广泛。既可用于人，也可用于动物。
devour指狼吞虎咽地吃，强调吃得既快又彻底。
consume侧重痛痛快快地吃得一干二净，可用于人和动物。
双语例句
用作动词(v.)
His old car consumed much gasoline.
他的旧汽车耗油很多。
Each year Americans consume a high percentage of the world's energy.
每年美国人都消耗掉世界能源的很大比例
I'm sure that Chinese people consume the largest amount of rice in the world.
我敢肯定,世界上中国人吃掉的大米最多。
I saw the flames consuming the whole building.
我看见火焰吞噬了整栋建筑物。
权威例句
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consume (v.)
late 14c., from Old French consumer "to consume" (12c.) and directly from Latin consumere "to use up, eat, waste," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + sumere "to take," from sub- "under" + emere "to buy, take" (see exempt (adj.)).
1. All we need to do to achieve that is produce more, consume less, or both.
为了达到目标，我们需要做的就是多生产，少消费，或者两者均衡。
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2. After all, our privacy and security on these sites -- in terms of how much we share with others and what we consume -- is ultimately up to each of us.
最重要的是我们在这些网站上的隐私和安全—从我们与他人分享的东西的多少和我们消费的东西的角度—最终取决于我们每一个人。
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3. How does what you do, what you consume, and how you live, impact the environment?
你做的事情，你消费的东西，你生活的方式，如何影响着环境？
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4. Its model of only paying for what you consume was a radical innovation when it launched in 2006.
当它在2006年推出时，它为你消费的物品付费模式确实是一个积极的创新。
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5. "In order to prevent this oxidation of cholesterol, we need to consume antioxidants, preferably natural antioxidants that you get from fruits and vegetables, " he said in an interview.
“为了防止这种胆固醇氧化，我们需要消耗抗氧化剂，最好是从水果和蔬菜得到的天然抗氧化剂， ”他在接受采访时说道。
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6. The novelist and agent gave me their impressions of the device and how it will, if at all, change the way readers consume books.
小说家和代理人给出了他们对这个设备的想法，谈论了它，如果可能，对读者在书籍上的消费方式的影响。
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7. We want to be known not just for what we consume, but for what we produce.
我们不仅希望因我们消费的东西而闻名，还希望因我们生产的产品而闻名。
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8. If one of the manufacturing points operates too quickly, it will build up an inventory for the next station to consume.
如果其中一个制造点运作的太快，那么就将生成需要下一个岗位来消耗的存货。
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9. In Henan, however, the message that you can consume more if you breed less appears to be more persuasive than threats and penalties.
然而，在河南，有一种论调是如果你少生育就可以消费更多资源。而这似乎比威胁与惩罚更具说服力。
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10. It gives them freedom to make money, consume, travel abroad, drive foreign cars and listen to any music they like.
它给他们以赚钱、消费、出国旅游、开外国汽车和听他们喜欢的任何音乐的自由。
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11. Moreover, each of us needs to consume at least 5 liters of water per day, and everything we eat and drink contains water.
此外，我们每人每天至少消耗5升的水，我们所吃所饮的一切东西也都包含着水。
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12. While there are hundreds of nutrients, the following information explains the ones you need to consume every day, what they do, and how to get them from your diet.
然而，人们需要好几百种营养元素，下面的内容解释了你每天需要消耗的一种营养元素的所起的作用和从饮食中摄取的方式。
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13. Note that the service specification may only provide public operations, and each operation should only consume at most one message and produce at most one message.
注意服务的规约说明只能提供公开的操作，而且每个操作应当只能消耗至多一条消息、产生至多一条消息。
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14. Because you have no idea what these agents can do, how often they intend to run, or how many users run them, there is no way to project which resources they consume.
因为您不知道这些代理可以做什么、它们打算隔多久运行一次或者多少用户在运行它，所以无法预测它们消耗哪些资源。
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15. It gives them freedom to make money, consume, travel abroad, drive foreign cars and listen to any music they like.
它给他们以赚钱、消费、出国旅游、开外国汽车和听自己喜欢的任何音乐的自由。
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16. This is analogous to packing a healthy snack in the car as a backup, to ensure you have something appropriate to consume.
这类似于包装一个健康的快餐，放在车中作为储备，以确保您有一些合适的东西来消耗。
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17. And every year, like some sort of magic clockwork, it does more and more for less and less, bringing the marginal costs of technology in the units that we individuals consume closer to zero.
每年，就像某些神奇的发条装置一样，它能以越来越少的成本做越来越多的事情；由于大规模消费的存在，技术的单位边际成本渐趋于零。
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18. In the attention economy, we will have to evaluate every action with regard to how much attention it will consume and how we can get and keep the attention we need.
在“专注”经济中，我们评价每个行动时，必将考虑消耗多少“专注”，以及我们如何得到我们所需的关注并如何保持这种专注。
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19. In fact, company officials said, it might even encourage some people to travel or consume more.
事实上，公司官员说，它甚至可能鼓励一些人更多的旅游或消费。
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20. The resulting productivity boom makes this nation the factory of the world, producing far more goods than it can consume.
由此而来的生产繁荣使这个国家成为世界工厂，生产的商品数量远超过它能消费的量。
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21. Charts and reports consume trees.
图表和报告消耗树木。
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22. Charts and reports consume trees.
图表和报告消耗树木。
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23. Radio buttons can consume even more screen real estate than check boxes. They use the same amount of space as check boxes, but radio buttons are only meaningful in groups, so their use of space is always multiplied.
单选按钮甚至比复选框更浪费屏幕空间，基于同样的原因，它们和复选框一样浪费同样数量的空间。 但单选按钮只有成组时才有意义，所以其浪费总是加倍的。
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24. They generally consume more power and take up more space, too.
它们通常消耗更多的能量，并且占用更多的空间。
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25. All this would consume time, the most precious element of all.
如此一来，难免要虚掷极宝贵的时间了。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
26. The world is beginning to consume its capital along with the interest.
世界不仅在消耗利息，也正在消耗本金。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
27. Thermal engines, be they large or small, have to consume fuel.
热机不论大小都需要消耗燃料。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
28. He must subdue her, absorb her, rip her apart and consume her.
他立意要征服她，吞了她，不惜把她撕碎把她榨干。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
29. Some animals may consume insignificant amounts of the primary production.
有些动物可以消耗很微量的初级产物。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
30. The march would consume half of the useful life of the vehicle.
此次长途跋涉将过于损耗车辆的寿命。
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31. Bacteria in stagnant bowel consume dietery vitamin B12.
滞留在肠道的内细菌还消耗食物中的维生素B12。
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32. The meter should show the progress relative to the total time the process will consume rather than the total size of the process.
进度表应该显示相对整个过程所耗费时间的进度，而不是相对整个过程规模的进度。
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