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 consumption [kən'sʌmpʃən]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 消费, 消费量, 痨病

[化] 消耗量; 耗量

[医] 消耗, 消费; 痨病, 结核

[经] 销路, 行销, 消费量


  1. There's too great a consumption of alcohol in China.
    在中国酒的消耗量太大了。
  2. Consumption of cotton increased even after it rose in price.
    棉花的价格虽然提高了，但消耗依然增加。
  3. He has to cut down on the consumption of meat.
    他不得不减少吃肉。


consumption
[ noun ]
  1. the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

    2. <noun.act>
  2. involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

    3. <noun.state>
  3. (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing

    4. <noun.process>
    the consumption of energy has increased steadily
  4. the act of consuming something

    5. <noun.act>


Consumption \Con*sump"tion\ (?; 215), n. [L. consumptio: cf. F.
consomption.]
1. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.;
decay; destruction.

Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a
new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his
consumption. --Burke.

2. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or
diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.

3. (Med.) A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that
form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and
associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever,
etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also {pulmonary
consumption}.

{Consumption of the bowels} (Med.), inflammation and
ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.

Syn: Decline; waste; decay. See {Decline}.

  1. Commercials featuring the dancing, singing California raisins have helped boost consumption by 13 percent and Leger wants to do the same for watermelons.
  2. Vegetable consumption climbed from 152 pounds per person in 1982 to 170 pounds last year and is expected to continue to increase, according to the Central Marketing Association for German Agriculture.
  3. Banning other widely-consumed drugs such as marijuana has not significantly reduced their consumption.
  4. With consumption well down mainly because of Russia's continuing and apparently indefinite absence from the market.
  5. On the economic calendar for today, August personal income data are expected to show a 0.5% gain, while consumption expenditures are expected to be unchanged, according to a Dow Jones Capital Markets Report consensus of economists.
  6. If, in these circumstances, beer consumption continues to decline, the brewers have only themselves to blame.
  7. Industrial Bank of Japan fell Y10 to Y3,290 and Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank lost Y30 to Y1,980. Retailers rose on prospects of a boost in private consumption because of an income tax cut scheduled next month.
  8. Also, consumption of a luxury product like chocolate can't be expanded too far, he said.
  9. To keep down fat consumption, buy low- or no-fat yogurt.
  10. Fuel consumption should be 33mpg (8.56 l/100km). Two other versions of the Punto that also are new to Britain are the 55 EL six-speed and the 60 SX Selecta.
  11. Since peaking at 3.12 cups a day in 1962, per-capita coffee consumption dropped 44% to 1.74 cups a day in 1986.
  12. He has a reputation for having all the bars in Kabul bombed because Islam forbids the consumption of alcohol.
  13. With so many problems plaguing the industry, copper production is running below consumption for the third straight year.
  14. According to the International Coffee Organization, per capita coffee consumption in the United States fell to 1.67 cups a day in 1988 from 3.12 cups a day in 1962.
  15. The result is that U.S. officials now believe that Iraq will have enough wheat and rice for four months of normal human consumption, and that rationing and belt-tightening could stretch those supplies another month or so.
  16. The distiller is also trying to shrink dependence on its spirits business, in an era when liquor consumption is declining at about 2% annually.
  17. The document, disclosed by news reports last week, had not been intended for public consumption.
  18. In California, farmers account for 75% of the state's annual water consumption from all sources; they produce about 10% of its $700 billion gross product.
  19. However, they said people should still hold down fat consumption.
  20. Production reductions in recent years and accelerating consumption have contributed to the price hike.
  21. The new engines, built by the General Electric Co., will cut fuel consumption by 25 percent, Lockheed said.
  22. World oil consumption fell 700,000 barrels a day in the fourth quarter, helping push supplies in industrial nations to their highest point since 1982.
  23. And February reports on personal income and personal consumption, due out Thursday, both are expected to rise about 0.6%.
  24. He added, "It is indispensible that there be strong action on the part of industrialized countries to attack consumption." Colombia supplies an estimated 80 percent of all the cocaine consumed in the United States.
  25. Johnson Matthey predicted world platinum consumption would outstrip production by 120,000 ounces this year, which would make 1989 the fifth straight year of deficit production and falling warehouse stocks.
  26. The systems are designed to boost productivity while reducing consumption of raw materials and energy.
  27. Thus, real personal consumption expenditures rose by 19.5% from 1981 to 1986.
  28. Mayor Tom Bradley has lobbied for a mandatory water conservation program that would impose rationing if residents fail to reduce their consumption by 10 percent below 1986 levels.
  29. Then came The Rake's Progress - a set of paintings aimed at a single purchaser, accompanied by a parallel edition of prints for popular consumption that were sold to the public by Hogarth from his workshop on subscription.
  30. The LDP lost its majority in the less powerful upper house last year as a result of money and sex scandals involving the party's Cabinet members, and an unpopular consumption tax.
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