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单词 consume
释义
consumecon‧sume /kənˈsjuːm $ -ˈsuːm/ ●●○ AWL verb [transitive] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINconsume
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French consumer, from Latin consumere, from com- ( ➔ COM-) + sumere ‘to take up, take’
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
consume
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theyconsume
he, she, itconsumes
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyconsumed
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave consumed
he, she, ithas consumed
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad consumed
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill consume
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have consumed
Continuous Form
PresentIam consuming
he, she, itis consuming
you, we, theyare consuming
PastI, he, she, itwas consuming
you, we, theywere consuming
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been consuming
he, she, ithas been consuming
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been consuming
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be consuming
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been consuming
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • In order to survive human beings need to consume food and water.
  • Industrialized countries consume natural resources in huge quantities.
  • People who consume large amounts of animal fats are more likely to get cancer and heart disease.
  • The college permits students who are 21 or older to consume alcoholic beverages in their dorm rooms.
  • The US imports 45% of the oil that it consumes.
  • This year, health care costs will consume one-eighth of the average family's income.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • By 1910 the inhabitants of Britain consumed a million tons of meat over and above home produce.
  • For example, how many calories a day do you consume?
  • Like many consumed by a powerful love, he has been searching since not so much for a replacement as an alternative.
  • More actual cheese will be consumed than ever before.
  • The egg, if injected, would hatch into a wasp grub that would consume the caterpillar from the inside.
  • The pathologist at the inquest said that Zyban could have reacted with the alcohol James had consumed.
  • Those in the Peck case consumed months.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
to put food in your mouth and chew and swallow it: · Experts recommend eating plenty of fruit and vegetables.
to eat a particular food: · ‘What do you usually have for breakfast?’ ‘I usually just have coffee and toast.’· We had the set meal.
to eat a particular kind of food – used when talking about animals: · Foxes feed on a wide range of foods including mice, birds, insects, and fruit.
written to eat or drink something – used especially in scientific or technical contexts: · Babies consume large amounts relative to their body weight.
to eat something with big continuous movements of your mouth, especially when you are enjoying your food: · He was munching on an apple.· They were sitting on a bench munching their sandwiches.
to eat something by biting off very small pieces: · If you want a healthy snack, why not just nibble on a carrot?
to eat only a small amount of your food because you are not hungry or do not like the food: · Lisa was so upset that she could only pick at her food.
to eat so much food that you cannot eat anything else: · He’s always stuffing himself with cakes.· We gorged ourselves on my mother’s delicious apple tart.
to eat soup, noodles etc with a noisy sucking sound: · In England it’s considered rude to slurp your soup, but in some countries it’s seen as a sign of enjoyment.
Longman Language Activatorto eat
· Don't eat so fast - you'll get sick.· I'm so full. I couldn't eat another thing.· She was sitting on the wall, eating an apple.· Hey! - Someone's eaten all my chocolates.
to eat a particular thing: · I wasn't very hungry, so I just had a sandwich.· I think I'll just have one more piece of cake.have something for lunch/dinner/breakfast: · What shall we have for dinner?· I usually just have fruit for breakfast.
to bite food several times and turn it around in your mouth: · I chewed the toffee slowly.· There was a cow in the field, slowly chewing a mouthful of grass.
to make something go down your throat towards your stomach: · If you drink some water it will make the pills easier to swallow.· I threw a piece of meat to the dog and he swallowed it in one go.
to eat something soft by moving your tongue across its surface: · The children sat licking their ice creams.lick something off something: · Nina licked the melted chocolate off her fingers.
to eat or drink something - used especially in scientific or technical contexts: · In order to survive human beings need to consume food and water.· People who consume large amounts of animal fats are more likely to get cancer and heart disease.
to eat eagerly and with enjoyment: · Dinner's ready everyone. Dig in!· Nick was already at the table, tucking in.tuck into: · "This is delicious!'' he said, tucking into his steak and kidney pudding.
if animals or babies feed , they eat or drink: · Most new babies will want to feed every few hours.· The pigs were feeding from a trough in the middle of the yard.feed on: · The larvae feed on the young shoots of water-lilies.
American informal to eat, especially in a noisy way or in a way that shows you are very hungry: · We each grabbed a container of ice cream and chowed down.chow down on: · The kids were chowing down on a large pizza.
to use an amount of something
to use an amount of something such as fuel, water, or food: · Who's used all the hot water?· We use about six pints of milk a week.· Planning is essential to make sure that resources are used effectively.· The average Westerner uses over 260 lbs of paper every year.
to use all of something, so that there is none left: use up something: · We should use up everything in the fridge before we go on vacation.· The country's oil reserves will soon be used up.use something up: · That is to say, once we have used our fossil fuels up, there won't be any more.
formal to use fuel, energy, water, and other natural products - use this especially to talk about the amount of fuel, energy etc used by people in general: · The US imports 45% of the oil that it consumes.· Industrialized countries consume natural resources in huge quantities.
to use a large amount of something in a short period: · Sometimes I go through a whole pack of cigarettes in a single afternoon.· We went through our food supplies at an alarming rate.
to use a lot of something, especially energy or fuel: · In the typical Western diet, all the energy in protein is burned up daily.burn up calories (=to use energy, for example by exercising): · Women tend to burn up calories less efficiently than men.
if something eats up money, gas, electricity etc, it uses it very quickly and in large amounts: · My rent eats up most of my money.· Non-energy saving light bulbs just eat up electricity.· The V8 is a very powerful engine, but it really eats up gas.
to use space or time, especially a lot of it: · Filing cabinets are very useful but they take up a lot of space.· I'll go now - I don't want to take up too much of your time.
formal: expend energy/time/effort etc to use energy, time etc when you are doing something, usually too much of it: · The final result hardly justifies the amount of time and energy that has been expended.expend something on/upon something: · We expend a lot of effort every day upon quite pointless activities.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=feel very guilty)· Later he was horrified that he had hit her, and was racked by guilt.
(=a very strong feeling of interest)· Roland had a consuming interest in cricket.
(=a very strong interest, or something you are very interested in)· The young Wordsworth had a consuming passion for poetry.· For years, acting and the stage had been his consuming passion.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
· The meal was consumed as rapidly as was comfortable within 15 minutes or stopped when satiation occurred.
· Triangle 145 indicates the welfare losses that are experienced by individual B because he is consuming more than he would otherwise choose.· None of the three drives consumed more than 2: 25.· Basic provision of shelter, heat and light often consume more than half the total income of unemployed claimants.· People save, or refrain from consumption, today in order to consume more tomorrow.· When eating flat-out, the beast easily consumes more than its own weight in plants every day.
NOUN
· The patient was a non-smoker and did not consume alcohol.· If you are doing covert sensitization on an outpatient basis, your client could be consuming alcohol prior to treatment.· Home Office ministers and anti-drink campaigners were concerned that extended hours could encourage people to consume alcohol.· Adult men consume most of the alcohol in the country.
· Economic development is measured using the amount of energy consumed in any given year.· The second question is whether counsellees want to give up drinking, or at least to reduce the amount consumed.· As the ageing body loses its ability to cope with alcohol, the amount that can be consumed has to be reduced.· The emphasis then is on defining that amount which can be consumed without impairing capital.
· People consumed fewer calories without even trying to do so.· We consume these calories in the form of food and use them up in maintaining the body's functions and movements.· If you are losing weight, then you are not consuming sufficient calories daily.· We should always consume sufficient calories to keep the metabolism buoyant.
· He did not consider the quantity of valuable raw materials and energy that had been consumed in the fridge's manufacture.· How much extra energy is consumed in pulverizing the coal to say 90 percent through 320 mesh? 2.· The plant, operated by Oxford Energy Co, will consume 10 million tyres a year.· Economic development is measured using the amount of energy consumed in any given year.· Essentially three things can happen to the energy we consume: 1.· Most of the energy we consume is used up by our bodies.
· In 1541 a fire consumed most of the town and much of the castle.· Rabindranath Tagore had reprovingly warned him that the fire that consumed foreign clothing might also inflame minds, and Gandhi was afraid.· The fire spread rapidly, consuming many of the pathetic homes that had been erected.· The confrontation ended April 19 with a fire that consumed the compound and killed Koresh and about 80 of his followers.· If left unchecked, the fire could consume 24 million tonnes of coal in the next 100 years.· The fire soon consumed the logs, and the rebels planted their colors there.· Years like that don't matter, only the minutes before the fire that consumes the world.· A Luciferian fire was consuming you - which means that at that moment you were bearing light.
· No-one forces them to undertake work which will use more energy than the food they consume can replace.· While the insects thrive, residues from years of spraying are showing up in the water and food that humans consume.· The vitamin B complex enables the body to make full use of the food consumed.· What kinds of food do you consume?· A thousand million fast foods are being consumed in Britain alone every year.· Although farming seems like an international enterprise, most food is consumed in the country where it was produced.· For example, energy is needed to metabolise the food we consume.· Vast quantities of beer and food were being consumed.
· System requirements Browsers consume a lot of disk space, especially the full installations of Internet Explorer with all the added accessories.· Although they consume lots of time, money, and effort, minimizing techniques are seldom effective in the long term.· We arrived back in Gravesend the next morning having consumed a lot of diesel and patience.
· How long does it take you to consume a meal?· Each subject was asked to consume the meal in less than 10 minutes.
· You can hardly claim she was consumed by passion.· Her heart clenched inside her as she thought of Guido and the dizzy, consuming passions he aroused in her.· And it's more fun now than when we were consumed by white-hot passion.
· Many people consume a good deal of sugar in drinks.· The people consuming the caffeine demonstrated tolerance in several ways.· So however green-tinted companies become they are unlikely to encourage people to consume less.· However, this will only be a problem for those rare people who consume no animal products whatsoever.· Home Office ministers and anti-drink campaigners were concerned that extended hours could encourage people to consume alcohol.
· They consume 83 percent of the state's water but contribute only 3 percent to the state's economy.· By 1991, Medicaid consumed 20 percent of Massachusetts' entire budget.· Its administration consumes more than 5 percent. of its schools budget.· The United States consumes 25 percent of all the energy used in the world each year.
· Simultaneously, advertisements offer us pictures of ourselves, as we might be if we consume the product.· The algae consumed waste products from the reef and under the intense artificial sunlight they proliferated in stringy green mats.· Sadly some customers don't consume their products sensibly and drink-driving is a prime example.· I can not consume the products of that department in their natural form, whilst the products of Dept.· Nevertheless, the size and wealth of London as a centre for consuming the products of the new industries was important.· However, this will only be a problem for those rare people who consume no animal products whatsoever.
· National income and the average propensity to consume in the United States, 1869- 1928.· It stabilised demand by income transfers to those who had a high propensity to consume.
· Therefore they may actually lose weight even though apparently consuming large quantities of food.· We sum vertically at a given quantity because everyone consumes the same quantity of a public good by definition.· To consume the same quantity of' calories in the form of whole oranges you would have to eat about five of them.· An in-kind transfer of good X enables her to consume a quantity 17 of good X at no cost.· It is certainly not something you would consume in any great quantity.
· By the time she had consumed apple pie and ice-cream she felt almost restored.· What may be less obvious is how time consuming, expensive, and risky it is to alter such arrangements.· It was an expensive and time consuming task to remove it.· One could never, in practice, complete such a translation; it would be much too time consuming and difficult.· Cooking such small amounts of food can be fiddly and time consuming so try freezing baby-sized portions in ice cube trays.· But Summerlee was not to be found, and further time was consumed in writing a note for him.· Freeing teachers from time consuming domestic tasks such as tidying, cleaning and repairing equipment?· The chestnuts must be peeled first, which is a little time consuming but worth the effort.
· Risers are used where the slope of the ground is steep and consume much water when boats are ascending.
VERB
· In equilibrium at E the quantity Q is produced and consumed.· The songs of Whitman were drowned out in the drone of the new producing. consuming machinery.· This becomes evident when consideration is given to the processes by which these styles are produced and consumed.· These public goods can only be produced and consumed economically on a collective basis.· How should society make plans today for the quantities of goods to be produced and consumed in the future?
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounconsumptionconsumerverbconsume
1to use time, energy, goods etc → consumption:  Only 27% of the paper we consume is recycled. A smaller vehicle will consume less fuel.2formal to eat or drink something → consumer, consumption:  Alcohol may not be consumed on the premises.► see thesaurus at eat3 literary if a feeling or idea consumes you, it affects you very strongly, so that you cannot think about anything else:  She was scared by the depression which threatened to consume her.be consumed with something He was consumed with guilt after the accident.4formal if fire consumes something, it destroys it completely → time-consuming
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