consumption是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 消费(量) ; 消耗, 挥霍，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If excessive consumption threatens to exterminate the fish of a river, or ruin the early crop of sweet potatoes, these things are put under the protection of the taboo.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her consumption was so advanced, and she was so weak, that she used to sit with closed eyes, breath-ing heavily.
-- His skeleton-like figure, his ghastly complexion, the brightness of his eyes, and the red spots of colour on his cheeks, betrayed the victim of consumption to the most casual glance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the Doc-tor's little household, as in very many others, the articles of daily consumption that were wanted were purchased every evening, in small quantities and at various small shops.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But her chest is weak and she has a tendency to consumption and I feel it!Do you suppose I don't feel it?
-- Don't worry the poor woman too much, she is in consumption as it is.
-- The later stages of consumption are apt, doctors tell us, to affect the intellect.
-- They say that in consumption the tubercles sometimes occur in the brain; it's a pity I know nothing of medicine.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It appeared to me, on looking over the tradesmen'sbooks, as if we might have kept the basement story paved withbutter, such was the extensive scale of our consumption of thatarticle.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fairfax of the regiment of in-fantry, and Miss Jane Bates, had had its day of fame and pleasure, hope and interest; but nothing now remained of it, save the melancholy remembrance of him dying in ac-tion abroad of his widow sinking under consumption and grief soon afterwards and this girl.
-- And it cannot be for the value of our custom now, for what is our consumption of bread, you know?
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It suggested a consumption too great of a vitality which, to judge from her figure and stature, was already too little.
-- Boldwood's deep attachment was a matter of great interest among all around him; but, after having been pointed out for so many years as the perfect exemplar of thriving bachelorship, his lapse was an anticlimax somewhat resembling that of St. John Long's death by consumption in the midst of his proofs that it was not a fatal disease.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found that the youth spent a great part of each day in collecting wood for the family fire, and during the night I often took his tools, the use of which I quickly discovered, and brought home firing suffi-cient for the consumption of several days.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was stricken with consumption while in prison, and under the present circumstances had but a few months to live, and he knew it.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The finest lad that ever breathed!But the doctor says missis must go: he says she's been in a consumption these many months.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this manner, in early days, were formed those vast and prodigious layers of coal, which an ever--increasing consumption must utterly use up in about three centuries more, if people do not find some more economic light than gas, and some cheaper motive power than steam.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sulphuric acid is one of the agents the most frequently employed, and the manufacturing importance of a nation can be measured by the consumption which is made of it.
-- The colonists were again shut up in Granite House, and as it was necessary to hermetically seal all the openings of the facade, only leaving a narrow passage for renewing the air, the consumption of candles was considerable.
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