consumption

名词 consumption:

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

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。

con.sump.tion

n.（名词）

The act or process of consuming.
消耗：消耗的行为或过程
The state of being consumed.
被耗尽：被耗尽、用完的状态
An amount consumed.
消耗量：所消耗的数量
Economics The using up of goods and services by consumer purchasing or in the production of other goods.
【经济学】 消费：消费者在购买或生产其它商品时所消耗的商品及服务
Pathology
【病理学】
A progressive wasting of body tissue.
身体耗损：身体组织的逐步耗损
Pulmonary tuberculosis. No longer in scientific use.
痨病：肺结核，科学上已不再使用

来源：
Middle English consumpcioun
中古英语 consumpcioun
from Latin cônsômptiô cônsômptiôn- [a consuming]
源自 拉丁语 cônsômptiô cônsômptiôn- [完成]
from cônsômptus [past participle of] cônsômere [to consume] * see consume
源自 cônsômptus [] cônsômere的过去分词 [消费，消耗] *参见 consume