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词汇 consumed
释义 consumed
past simple and past participle ofconsume
consume
verb[ T ]
uk /kənˈsjuːm/ us /kənˈsuːm/

consumeverb[T] (USE RESOURCE)


C1
to use fuel, energy, time, or a product, especially in large amounts: (尤指大量地)消耗,消费,花费
Our high living standards cause our current population to consume 25 percent of the world's oil.我们的高生活水准致使我们目前的人口要消耗世界石油的25%。
Most of their manufactured products are consumed domestically.
The software consumes huge amounts of internet bandwidth.
B2formal
to eat or drink something: 摄取,咽下(食物)
He consumes huge amounts of bread with every meal.他每顿饭都要吃掉大量的面包。
She avoids consuming caffeine in any form.
Most people in rich countries consume more protein than they need.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to eat food
eatWhat do you want to eat for lunch?
haveI'll just have one more piece of chocolate cake.
consumeHe consumes vast quantities of bread with every meal.
devourThe children devoured a whole packet of biscuits.
bolt (down)Don't bolt down your food - you'll make yourself ill!
gobble (up/down)The children gobbled their sweets.
to watch or read forms of media(= the internet, television, newspapers, magazines, etc.) or take in information from these:
The internet has completely changed how people consume media.
In the course of a typical day we might consume hundreds of ads.
Children's films are also avidly consumed by adults.
The defence budget consumes vast amounts of money.
These pumps consume electricity at a phenomenal rate.
These legal challenges will consume already limited government resources.
It's the sum total of what you eat over a long period that matters and not what you consume in a day.重要的是你长期所吃的食物的总和,而不是你某一天所吃的东西。
Alcohol should be consumed in moderation, and this is particularly true for pregnant women.饮酒应适量,对孕妇尤其如此。
We recommend that this wine should be consumed within six months.我们建议该酒在6个月内饮用完毕。
The splintering of mass media allows us to consume news that we like and avoid news that we don't, so our long-held perceptions are never challenged.
People can choose how they want to consume content — on their TV, on their computer, on their phone.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Using and misusing
adopt
adoption
avail
avail yourself of something
be/go heavy on somethingidiom
exhaust
give/allow something full playidiom
go into something
go through
gobble something up
make capital out of somethingidiom
recycle
spare
swallow
tap
turn over
turn to someone/something
turn/use something to good accountidiom
unblock
underuse

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Eating
Drinking
Media in general

consumeverb[T] (DESTROY)


If a fire consumes something, it destroys it completely.(火)吞噬,烧毁,毁灭
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to burn down or burn something down
burn downThe family home burned down in a matter of hours.
burn to the groundToday marks 400 years since the theatre burned to the ground.
go upAfter the initial explosion, the building went up in a matter of minutes.
go up in flamesThe precious collection went up in flames.
go up in smokeAll my life's work has gone up in smoke.
consumeAll her possessions were consumed in the blaze.
 be consumed by/with something
C2
to have so much of a feeling that it affects everything you do: 充满(某种强烈的感情)
He was consumed with jealousy.他心里满是嫉妒。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Burning, burnt & on fire
afire
aflame
alight
blaze
burn (something) down
burn sb up
burned out
burnt out
combustible
consume
flare
frazzled
incinerate
inflammable
on fireidiom
post-burn
reignite
scald
self-immolation
unburnable

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Destroying and demolishing

Examples of consumed


consumed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


At 0.5%, 1.0% and 2% sufficient was consumed, as estimated from the loss of weight to account for this.
An effect of larval food-plant on adult life-span was found with greater longevity in females that had as larvae consumed exclusively lodgepole pine foliage.
The availability of alternative prey may have affected the quantities of slug consumed, but clearly did not prevent the beetles from reducing slug populations.
The questionnaire did not collect detailed information about the amount of alcohol consumed by the respondents.
First, we hypothesize that these shocks have induced residential resorting, which should increase the allocative efficiency with which local public goods are consumed.
Three is the minimum number of ages needed for changing the differential between the ages at which the average income is earned and consumed.
By that time all the host tissue was consumed but cocoon formation had not begun.
The scenic display was extraordinary and may well have consumed a large percentage of the spectators' attention.
Particularly, they preserve words by turning them into physical objects which can be exchanged, possessed, or consumed.
Whenever foraging primates were encountered, the fruit species being consumed and the treatment of the seed (swallowed, dropped, destroyed) was recorded.
Fractions of fruits consumed or carried away were calculated from field observations and the viability of excreted seeds was obtained from the cage experiments.
The proportions of wheat consumed by different livestock classes were assumed to be consistent over the years of the study.
Repairs to the ship consumed the profits of the voyage thus far.
As pyruvate is produced by glycolysis and consumed by gluconeogenesis, parasite-induced starvation of the host should result in a depletion of hepatocellular pyruvate.
It is by no means obvious where certain information is produced, where it is changed, and where it is consumed.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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