Consume

(verb.) engage fully; 'The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy'.

(verb.) serve oneself to, or consume regularly; 'Have another bowl of chicken soup!'; 'I don't take sugar in my coffee'.

(verb.) use up (resources or materials); 'this car consumes a lot of gas'; 'We exhausted our savings'; 'They run through 20 bottles of wine a week'.

(verb.) spend extravagantly; 'waste not, want not'.

(verb.) destroy completely; 'The fire consumed the building'.

伊莱扎录入

• If you are one of those who want us to consume it, I differ from you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The sun had now got far to the west of south and stood directly in her face, like some merciless incendiary, brand in hand, waiting to consume her. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The heat-treating department contains about seventy-five large furnaces, which consume from 5,000 to 6,000 gallons of fuel oil per day. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• She threw morsel by morsel into the fire, and stood pensively watching them consume. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The man who buys, does not always mean to sell again, but frequently to use or to consume; whereas he who sells always means to buy again. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It is for this reason that we consume a large quantity of food. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• I don't deny that the course of action I am now suggesting will cost money, and consume time. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed you sit among the ruins, and lament the fall. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• The coal in the retorts is not entirely consumed, but is reduced to the condition of coke, and in this form is sold for fuel. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• This sets in motion a train of wheels carrying the hands over the dials which mark the quantity of gas consumed. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This would be the case, even upon the supposition that the whole French goods imported were to be consumed in Great Britain. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He has consumed all ours that I can spare. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Nor will the closest inspection of a formation give us any idea of the length of time which its deposition may have consumed. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The value, therefore, of what has been consumed and produced during these six months, is equal, not to ten, but to twenty pounds. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• On a meat dietary men can live without salt, but grain-consuming people need it just as herbivorous animals need it. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The pin-setter relieves the boy of the major and most time-consuming part of this work. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• With Johnston and him combined, a long, tedious, and expensive campaign, consuming most of the summer, might become necessary. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• But he always said to himself, how happy he had been, how he had loved her with a pure and consuming love ever since he had known her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He was inspired by a consuming passion for a new order of human life. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But it may be seriously questioned whether in the aggregate Edison's visitors are less numerous or less time-consuming than his epistolary besiegers. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• They fought with desperate valor, but to no purpose; the odds of heat and numbers, and consuming thirst, were too great against them. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• On the other hand, she consumes so many pounds of beefsteaks and so many pints of porter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The rich man consumes no more food than his poor neighbour. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I must for ever conceal the wretchedness that consumes me. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The annual output in wheels consequently consumes about 4,000,000 pounds, or 2,000 tons of rubber. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Why not lie down and rest myself, and try to quench the fever that consumes me, in sleep? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It operates from any light socket and consumes but a very small amount of current, much less than is consumed by a toaster. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

校对:尼古拉斯