1.（能量、食物或材料的）消耗，消耗量the act of using energy, food or materials; the amount used
the production of fuel for domestic consumption(= to be used in the country where it is produced)供国内消耗的燃料生产
Gas and oil consumption always increases in cold weather.燃气和燃油的消耗量在天冷时总会增加。
The meat was declared unfit for human consumption .这种肉被宣布不适于人食用。
He was advised to reduce his alcohol consumption.他被劝告减少饮酒。
Her speech to party members was not intended for public consumption(= to be heard by the public) .她对党员发表的讲话并不打算公诸大众。
2.消费the act of buying and using products
Consumption rather than saving has become the central feature of contemporary societies.现代社会的主要特征是消费而不是储蓄。
3.肺病；肺痨；肺结核a serious infectious disease of the lungs
China's exports as a share of U. S. consumption might have grown quickly, but they are still a small fraction of the total.
中国出口产品在美国消费总量中所占的比例或许增长迅速，但相对整体而言仍微不足道。
Children and women who are pregnant, trying to become pregnant, or nursing should be careful to avoid excessive mercury consumption.
孩子和孕妇或者打算怀孕以及正在坐月子的妇女应该尽量小心的避免过量的汞的摄入。
It's hard to see the world going crazy [in terms of steel consumption] without a substantial contribution from the US.
如果没有美国的显著贡献，很难想象世界将（在钢铁消费方面）陷入疯狂。
Still, the state has continued to pay big consumption subsidies for fear of public unrest if it stopped.
尽管如此，印尼政府仍继续支付巨额石油消费补贴，因为政府担心一旦停止补贴，就会发生公众骚乱事件。
However the pattern of consumption began long before Terra exited the Great Central Sun as she was consumed until she fell therein.
其实肉食的图案模式早在Terra离开大中枢太阳前就开始，她被“食用”导致振动下跌。
This apparent irrelevance also relates back to the fact that the basic means of producing food and its consumption are distinct.
这种明显的不相关也涉及回到一个事实，即生产食品，其消费的基本手段是不同的。
Down the road if not the case when must be so best don't often, driving can reduce the overtaking a fuel consumption.
行驶在路上时如果不是必须的情况那么最好不要频繁地超车，匀速行驶才能降低燃油消耗。
'Over the long run, consumption should be lifted due to lower production cost, ' he said.
江新芳说，长期而言，生产成本降低将会提振消费。
The fact was that the young Duchess was in the tertiary stage of consumption and, only days after Marguerite's arrival, she succumbed.
不过公爵小姐的肺病已经到了第三期，玛格丽特来巴涅尔没几天，公爵小姐便离开了人间。
With their dedicated support, we continued to set targets for energy and paper consumption at the beginning of the financial year.
在他们大力支持下，本处继续在财政年度初期订下能源和纸张耗用量的目标。
China cotton production of the recovery in the new year, but consumption continued to grow, new annual imports increased substantially.
新年度中国棉花产量有所恢复，但消费继续增长，新年度进口量大幅增加。
This invention will reduce global energy consumption by allowing remote control and automation of every outlet in every home and business.
这项发明会减少全球的能源消耗因为它使得所有家庭和公司的每个插座都能被遥控和自动化。
It's easy to see, by the patterns of consumption they have. It really is not fiction -- it's fact.
看他们的消费模式，很容易看出这个结论并非杜撰，这是事实。
with the strength of the aggregation increasing, energy consumption of each node tends to equilibrium.
随着融合强度的增加，网络中节点能量消耗趋于平均。
World oil consumption is now growing at a significantly lower pace than had been imagined a year ago.
全球石油消费目前的增速明显低于一年前预期的水平。
However, aggregate personal consumption expenditures did not increase by much around the time of the stimulus payments.
然而，集中的个人消费并没能使经济刺激阶段的消费支出获得增长。
The aim of the repetition of commercials on television is nothing but to brainwash the consumers into compulsive consumption.
电视上重复出现商业广告的目的仅仅是为了给消费者洗脑，从而促进消费。
First, in an environment of much slower Chinese economic growth, it would not be surprising if consumption growth rates also declined.
首先，在中国经济增长大幅放缓的环境下，如果消费增速也出现下滑，这不会令人感到意外。
The shift to more frugal consumption patterns would be like a change in tastes, not like the beginning of a recession.
向节俭消费方式过度更像是品味的更换，却不像是经济萧条的开始。
Future growth, he argued, would depend "on how much private consumption can improve" .
他辩论道，将来的增长，将取决于“个人消费水平的提高程度”。
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