第三人称复数：consumptions
名词
1. The petrol consumption of the big car as very high.
这辆大的小汽车耗油量很大。
2. There's too great a consumption of alcohol in Britain.
在英国酒的消耗量太大了。
3. This food is for our consumption on the trip.
这些食物供我们旅途中吃。
1. 消费 消费：1.消费 消费(Consumption)是指人们为了满足生产或生活需要而对物质产品和服务进行消耗的过程. 根据消费的性质,可将其分为生产性消费和生活性消费两种. 生产性消费是指在生产过程中对生产资料和劳动力的使用与消耗.
2. 消耗量：质量 quality. | 消耗量 consumption. | 原材料 feedstock.
1. (燃料、自然资源的)消耗量，消费量
The consumption of fuel or natural resources is the amount of them that is used or the act of using them.
e.g. The laws have led to a reduction in fuel consumption in the US.
这些法律已经使美国燃料消费量有所减少。
e.g. ...a tax on the consumption of non-renewable energy resources.
非再生能源消费税
2. 吃;喝;饮用
The consumption of food or drink is the act of eating or drinking something, or the amount that is eaten or drunk.
e.g. Most of the wine was unfit for human consumption...
这些酒中大部分都不适于人类饮用。
e.g. The average daily consumption of fruit and vegetables is around 200 grams...
每日平均果蔬摄入量约为200克。
3. 消费
Consumption is the act of buying and using things.
e.g. Recycling the waste from our increased consumption is better than burning it.
对我们增加消费产生的垃圾进行回收要好过将其焚烧。
e.g. The production and consumption of goods and services is the ultimate aim of all economic endeavour.
生产并消费商品和服务是一切经济活动的终极目标。
4. 供(某人或某个群体)使用，享用
If you do or say something for a particular person's or group's consumption, you do or say it especially for them, although your private thoughts or plans may be very different.
e.g. The hard-line speech appears to be mostly for domestic consumption...
强硬路线的讲话似乎主要是说给国内人听的。
e.g. The report was obviously designed for the consumption of members of the War Committee.
该报告显然是为战争委员会的委员们撰写的。
5. 同 tuberculosis
Consumption is the same as tuberculosis .
6. see also: conspicuous consumption
1. Other economic indicators such as electricity consumption and shipping rates are also climbing, reflecting stronger business activity.
2. Those items mainly include tariff duties, consumption tax and business tax.
3. Such a consumption pattern reflects that the symptomatic or symbolic value of a product for the buyer is much higher than its use value.
4. A stronger yuan would increase the buying power of Chinese consumers, helping to increase domestic consumption and reducing reliance on exports.
5. China has set a bold target to trim the energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product by 20 percent by 2010.
6. Instead I was confronted by the ugly reality of excessive alcohol consumption the minute my compatriot stumbled into my view.
7. Total food consumption by normal weight children rose by 84 per cent after seeing the snack food advertisements.
8. Cab drivers must pay an additional 180 yuan each month after the oil price increase, based on an average oil consumption of 20 liters per day.
9. The cabinet also urged more efforts to construct a nationwide industrial system that allows recycling of renewable resources and encourages green consumption.
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10. The women reported an average caffeine consumption during pregnancy of 159 milligrams per day, lower than new recommended limits of 200 milligrams in Britain.
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1. the act of consuming something
Synonym: using up expenditure
2. the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
Synonym: ingestion intake uptake
3. (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
e.g. the consumption of energy has increased steadily
Synonym: economic consumption usance use use of goods and services
4. consumption
4. involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
Synonym: pulmonary tuberculosis phthisis wasting disease white plague