[kən'sʌmpʃən]
consumption
n. 消费

例句与用法:

  1. The meat was condemned as unfit for human consumption.
    这种肉已宣布不适宜人们食用.
  2. I always take fuel consumption into consideration when buying a car.
    我买汽车时总要把燃油消耗量考虑在内.
  3. He has to cut down on the consumption of meat.
    他不得不减少吃肉。
  4. 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。
  5. There's too great a consumption of alcohol in China.
    在中国酒的消耗量太大了。

英英解释:

名词 consumption:

  1. the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
  2. 同义词:ingestion, intake, uptake
  3. involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
  4. 同义词:pulmonary tuberculosis, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague
  5. (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
  6. 同义词:economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services
  7. the act of consuming something
  8. 同义词:using up, expenditure