One way to picture consumption: something is taken in and used up — food swallowed, fuel burned, goods bought and worn out. English mostly uses the word to measure that using-up (how much fuel, how much sugar, how much a country buys), which is why it turns up so often in reports and official notices.
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原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
consumptionnoun/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/
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The act of eating, drinking or using.
- The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.
- A Guardia Civil spokesperson said that ayahuasca, San Pedro, toad poison, wild rue and mimosa pudica were prohibited substances in Spain, adding that their consumption was not authorised because, while they were natural substances, they could be highly dangerous to human health.
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The amount consumed.
- gross national consumption
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The act of consuming or destroying.
- The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
- Driving methods have a direct bearing on fuel consumption with every type of motive power.
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medicinepathologysciencesThe wasting away of the human body through disease.
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datedmedicinepathologysciencesPulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
- And then as to your ſcurvys, and gouts, rheumatiſms, conſumptions, coughs and catarrhs, tar-vvater and turpentine vvill make you as ſound as a roach.
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datedAlcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).
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