Consuming

(adj.) very intense; 'politics is his consuming passion'; 'overwhelming joy' .

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• 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.
• There, if I remember, we were about six weeks, consuming our sea stores and obliged to procure more. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• It affords good, active exercise, hilarity, and consuming excitement. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• To show what they mean, however, it might be noted that New York City alone has 3000 stock tickers, consuming 50,000 miles of record tape every year. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Even iron could not remain without consuming in the damps of that infernal dungeon. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• We still consider his revenue as consisting in this power of purchasing or consuming, and not in the pieces which convey it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It is not uncommon to find an outdoor laborer consuming one pound of beans per day, and taking meat only on high days and holidays. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• It has been too intense and consuming. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• As a mere child the busy scenes of the canal and the grain warehouses were of consuming interest, but the work in the ship-building yards had an irresistible fascination. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I reached this one, said my friend, by sitting upon five pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I could not disguise to myself, nor could she conceal, her life-consuming sorrow. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Among his inventions may be mentioned a machine for making fuel from wheat straw, and a smoke-consuming device. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It was consuming beyond its powers of production, but as yet only the inarticulate classes were feeling the pinch. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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