consumption

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n. 消费, 消费量, 痨病 [化] 消耗量; 耗量

发音

US /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/

词形变化

consumptions 复数 consumptions

教材释义与例句

名词

消费；消耗；肺痨

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    The act of eating, drinking or using.

    不可数

    The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.

  2. 2.

    The amount consumed.

    不可数

    gross national consumption

  3. 3.

    The act of consuming or destroying.

    消费

    不可数

    The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.

  4. 4.

    The wasting away of the human body through disease.

    不可数 医学
  5. 5.

    Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.

    过时 不可数 医学
  6. 6.

    Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).

    过时 委婉 不可数

词汇关系

名词

同义词 10

use intake expenditure ingestion uptake phthisis pulmonary tuberculosis usance wasting disease white plague

上位词 7

demand activity tuberculosis tb depletion bodily function bodily process

下位词 10

drink eating drinking suck feeding swallow sucking suction burn up conspicuous consumption

相关短语

consumption function [经] 消费函数 consumption functions consumption room consumption rooms consumption weed [美国英语]＝groundsel tree consumption good consumption goods [经] 消费品, 生活资料 virtual consumption specific fuel consumption conspicuous consumption n. 炫耀性消费, 挥霍; 摆阔性消费 power consumption [计] 功率损耗, 功耗 [化] 动力消耗 quick consumption

词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *nem-? Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-der. Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin sūmō Latin cōnsūmō Proto-Indo-European *-tisder. Proto-Italic *-tjō Latin -tiō Latin cōnsūmptiōder. Old French consumpcionbor. Middle English consumpcioun English consumption From Middle English consumpcioun, from Old French consumpcion, from Latin cōnsūmptiō, from cōnsūmō + -tiō, from con- (“with, together”) + sūmō (“take; consume”). Equivalent to consume + -tion.

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