consumption
consumption 英 [kənˈsʌmpʃn] 美 [kənˈsʌmpʃən]
n. 消费；消耗
名词复数:consumptions
- Consumption means using, buying or eating something. If we don't reduce our energy consumption, we will run out of fuel. Conspicuous consumption is buying something to show off.
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- n. 消费；消耗
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1. the production of fuel for domestic consumption
供国内消耗的燃料生产
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2. Gas and oil consumption always increases in cold weather.
燃气和燃油的消耗量在天冷时总会增加。
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3. The meat was declared unfit for human consumption.
这种肉被宣布不适于人食用。
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4. He was advised to reduce his alcohol consumption.
他被劝告减少饮酒。
- consumption (n.) late 14c., "wasting of the body by disease; wasting disease, progressive emaciation" (replacing Old English yfeladl "the evil disease"), from Old French consumpcion, from Latin consumptionem (nominative consumptio) "a using up, wasting," noun of state from past-participle stem of consumere "to use up, eat, waste," from assimilated form of com-, here probably an intensive prefix (see com-), + sumere "to take," from sub- "under" (see sub-) + emere "to buy, take" (from PIE root *em- "to take, distribute"). Meaning "act of consuming, the using up of material, destruction by use" is 1530s.
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