| 单词 | consuming |
| 释义 | consuming (once / 1559 pages) adj If you have a passion for art, and making it is all you can think about or do, your passion for art is consuming. It is intense and almost overwhelming. Picture a fire burning in a fireplace. The fire consumes the logs you have put in it. It completely devours them in order to burn. When something, a passion or a drive, is consuming, it dominates a person's life like that fire, and in a sense, it devours their energy and attention. Your consuming desire to travel might cause you to study abroad for a semester or even move to Europe. WORD FAMILYconsuming: consumingly+/consume: consumable, consumed, consumer, consumes, consuming, consumption, consumptive/consumed: unconsumed/consumer: consumerism, consumers/consumption: consumptions/consumptive: consumptively, consumptives/unconsumed: unconsumedly USAGE EXAMPLESCivil wars – most fuelled by outsiders – are consuming the Middle East. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) One group ate a fairly typical American diet, consuming about 3,000 calories a day, high in animal proteins with few fruits and vegetables. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) Continue consuming sugar at our current level and suffer the ill effects. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) adj very intense politics is his consuming passion Syn overwhelming intense possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree |
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