consumption

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of eating, drinking or using. uncountable,usually
    — The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.
  2. The amount consumed. uncountable,usually
    — gross national consumption
  3. The act of consuming or destroying. uncountable,usually
    — The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
  4. The wasting away of the human body through disease. uncountable,usually
  5. Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc. dated,uncountable,usually
    — 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.
  6. Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes). dated,euphemistic,uncountable,usually

词形变化

consumptions plural

词汇关系

衍生词
anticonsumption autoconsumption coconsumption conspicuous consumption consumptional consumption function consumption good consumption room consumption weed cyberconsumption hyperconsumption induced consumption metaconsumption nonconsumption over-consumption overconsumption photoconsumption power consumption prosumption quick consumption reconsumption self-consumption specific fuel consumption underconsumption virtual consumption
相关词
consumer

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-der.
Proto-Italic *emō
Latin emō
Latin sūmō
Latin cōnsūmō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin cōnsūmptiōder.
Old French consumpcionbor.
Middle English consumpcioun
English consumption
From con- + Latin sūmptus + -ion, from Middle English consumpcioun, from Old French consumpcion, from Latin cōnsūmptiō, from cōnsūmō + -tiō, from con- (“with, together”) + sūmō (“take; consume”). Equivalent to consume + -tion.
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