consuming是什么意思？

consuming

英[kənˈsju:mɪŋ] 美[kənˈsumɪŋ]

• adj. 强烈的，消费的；
• v. 消耗(consume的现在分词)；

例句

• While sitting in a coffee shop, we overheard a woman tearfully tell her husband that she was sorry that her work had been so consuming. 有一次我们坐在一个咖啡厅里，无意中听到一名妇女正流着泪对她的丈夫说，她的工作总是那么地耗精费神，这使她很歉疚。
• They also risk skewing healthcare priorities and consuming disproportionate resources relative the benefits and alternatives. 它们还可能扭曲医疗方面需要优先解决的事项,令所获益处与替代方案消耗的资源不成比例.
• Going to court can be an expensive, time consuming and gut wrenching experience that is best avoided. 打官司费钱耗时而且给人添堵，所以最好能避则避。
• Guns, bows, and crossbows will now do damage without consuming ammunition at all. 枪械, 弓, 弩现在可以造成伤害而完全不需要消耗弹药.
• Applying for travel, picnic, leisure consuming goods which are waterproof, anti - crinkling portable. 适用于旅游 、 野餐休闲用品, 具有较强的 抗 破、防水功能,携带方便.
• He was consuming his final libation. 他正在喝着他的最后一杯酒.
• It was a time-consuming and fiddly job. 这项工作耗时费事。
• Starting a new business, however small, is a time-consuming exercise. 创办一家新企业，不管多小，都是件旷日持久的事。
• Consuming this amount of food could turn these fit players into fatties. 这些体格健壮的运动员吃这么多会变成胖子的。
• It was borderline unorthodox and arduously time - consuming , but the Yankees could handle that given their reward. 这是很难以决定和艰钜的时刻, 但是洋基队仍然能维持局面.

英语四级真题

"Everyone in the U.S. is consuming salt far in excess of what is good for them," says lead author Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo of UCSF.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文

英语六级真题

As long as we're consuming fossil fuels, we're putting out CO2,"says Klaus Lackner, a geophysicist at Columbia, University" We cannot let the CO2 in the atmosphere rise indefinitely.
出自-2012年6月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• ADJ
  令人沉迷的;极其强烈的;令人忘乎一切的
  A consuming passion or interest is more important to you than anything else.
  例句
  He has developed a consuming passion for chess. 他对下棋产生了极为浓厚的兴趣。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. very intense;
  "politics is his consuming passion""overwhelming joy"