大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 consuming


释义：

consuming adj. （感情）强烈的，支配人的
v. 吃，喝；消耗，花费（时间、能源或燃料等）；烧毁，毁灭（consume 的现在分词）

例句：



The complaints procedure is clumsy and time-consuming.

申诉程序复杂耗时。



It's just very time consuming to get such a large quantity of data.

要收集这么多的数据就是非常耗时。



Going to court can be an expensive, time-consuming, and gut-wrenching experience that is best avoided.

上法庭会是种费钱，费时间，并带来精神痛苦的经历，最好能加以避免。



It is less time-consuming.

它耗时更短。



Non-consuming activities are active, not passive.

非消费活动是主动的，而不是被动的。



They are too often built around consuming natural resources.

它们大多是建立在消耗自然资源基础上的。



He must store a large quantity of grain instead of consuming all his grain immediately.

他必须储存大量的谷物，而不是立即消耗掉所有的谷物。



They overturn rocks to find them and consuming as many as 40,000 apiece in a single day.

为了找到这些他们，它们会翻倒岩石，一天就能消耗4万多块。



You'll have to make social media an occasional activity rather than a daily, time-consuming habit.

你将不得不让使用社交媒体成为一项偶尔为之的活动，而不是每天都要做的、耗费时间的习惯。



Americans are willing to tolerate time-consuming security procedures in return for increased safety.

美国人愿意忍受耗时的安全程序，来换取更高的安全性。



Since African agriculture is still broadly unproductive, food is imported, consuming a portion of revenue.

由于非洲的农业仍然普遍缺乏生产力，所以粮食需要进口，消耗了一部分收入。



"As long as we're consuming fossil fuels, we're putting out CO2," says Klaus Lackner, a geophysicist at Columbia University.

“只要我们还在消耗化石燃料，我们就在排放二氧化碳。”哥伦比亚大学的地球物理学家克劳斯· 拉克内说。



These beavers do know how to build dams, and do so if the need arises, as may occur if they are forced to relocate after felling and consuming all nearby trees.

这些海狸知道如何建造水坝，而且在有需要的时候就会这么做，比如当它们在砍伐和消耗了附近所有的树木后被迫迁移的时候。



"We had assumed that the biggest focus of these devices would be consuming the content," said Tracy Futhey, vice president for information technology and chief information officer at Duke.

“我们曾以为这些设备的最大关注点将是对内容的消费。”杜克大学信息技术副总裁兼首席信息官特蕾西·富西说。



Basketball is his consuming passion.

篮球令他着迷。



He has developed a consuming passion for chess.

他对国际象棋已经产生了浓厚的兴趣。



Nursing a demented person is an all-consuming task.

护理一个精神错乱的人是一项非常耗力的任务。



Haig's rise was fuelled by an all-consuming sense of patriotic duty.

黑格的崛起被一种压倒一切的爱国责任感推动着。



You are just consuming neat sugar.

你只是在吃纯的糖。



Consuming a modest snack should be entirely sufficient.

适量吃点零食就足够了。



Every day along the world's busiest border, an expensive and time-consuming pantomime is acted out.

在这个世界上最繁忙的边境地区，每天都在上演着一场昂贵又费时的哑剧。