買東西來用
把「用掉」放大到整個社會：一群人不斷買進商品再用掉，這個循環本身就叫 consumption。
consumerism · noun · C1
The act of buying and using goods and products, especially by large numbers of people.
消費
核心畫面
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.
可以想成 consumption 是「東西被吃進去、用掉」：食物吞下去、燃料燒掉、商品買回來用到不能用。英文多半拿這…更多收起
可以想成 consumption 是「東西被吃進去、用掉」：食物吞下去、燃料燒掉、商品買回來用到不能用。英文多半拿這個字來量那個「用掉」的過程——用了多少油、吃了多少糖、一個國家買了多少——所以它在報告和公告裡特別常見。From the picture
給某群人接收的
把「被吃下去」用在訊息上：一段話是要給誰吸收的？公開場合的版本和私下講的版本，內容常常不一樣。
for public/private consumption · noun · C1
Used in the phrase 'for public/private consumption' to mean intended to be seen, heard, or read by a certain group of people.
供…看／聽（公開或私下）
結核病的舊稱
指同一個名詞被用來稱呼一種肺部的重病；今天的醫學不再這樣稱呼，這個用法只留在舊時代的文字裡。
tuberculosis (old term) · noun · C1
An old-fashioned word for tuberculosis, a serious illness of the lungs.
肺癆（結核病舊稱）
Also in this word
eating or drinking (formal) · noun · C1
The act of eating or drinking something, used especially in formal or official language.
食用 / 飲用
energy consumption · noun · C1
The amount of energy, fuel, electricity, or similar things that is used.
耗用量 / 消耗量
amount consumed · noun · C1
The amount of a particular thing that people eat, drink, or use over a period of time.
攝取量 / 消費量
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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/
- 1
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.
- 2
The amount consumed.
- gross national consumption
- 3
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.
- 4
medicinepathologysciencesThe wasting away of the human body through disease.
- 5
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).
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。