consumptive

[US]/kən'sʌm(p)tɪv/
[UK]/kən'sʌmptɪv/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. 消费的,消耗性的
n. 肺病患者
Word Forms

Phrases & Collocations

consumptive behavior

消费行为

consumptive lifestyle

消费生活方式

Example Sentences

tourism represents an insidious form of consumptive activity.

旅游业是消耗性行为的潜在体现。

RESULTS &CONCLUSION: Levodopa/benserazide occupied the first place in the list of consumptive sum of money of antiparkinsonian during the period 2000~2003.

结果与结论:2000年~2003年抗震颤麻痹药中购药金额最大的为左旋多巴/苄丝肼;

Real-world Examples

He won't limply surrender like some consumptive Romantic.

他才不会像那些得了肺痨的浪漫主义者那样轻易的向死亡投降。

Source: The Power of Art - Joseph Mallord William Turner

The ancient Greeks knew its consumptive effects as phthisis; the Incans called it chaky oncay; and the English called it tuberculosis.

古希腊人将这一肺病称为 “痨”;印加人将其称为 “痨瘵”,英国人称之为“肺结核”。

Source: Bilingual Edition of TED-Ed Selected Speeches

A French actress was showing in a novel way how consumptive women die.

。 一位法国女演员以新颖的方式展示肺结核女性是如何死去的。

Source: Resurrection

Even the consumptive came near them, and, coughing, looked on.

甚至肺病患者也走近他们, 咳嗽着看着他们。

Source: Resurrection

Henry Brandling, a sorrowful, rich Englishman, travels to Germany to commission a “mechanical marvel” so wondrous it will raise his consumptive son from his sickbed.

富裕却忧伤的英国男子亨利·布兰德林(Henry Brandling)来到德国,希望能找人制造出一个美妙的“机械奇迹”,好让他身患肺痨的儿子能从中汲取战胜病魔的希望。

Source: The Economist - Arts

The consumptive with the child in her arms and the watch-woman, who did not cease knitting a stocking with her nimble fingers, approached Maslova.

肺病患者怀里抱着孩子,守门女不停地用灵巧的手指织袜子,走到玛斯洛娃跟前。

Source: Resurrection

At the expiration of the first month, Denise had become quite one of the family, like the other saleswoman, a silent, consumptive, little body.

在第一个月结束时, 丹妮丝已经完全成为这个家庭的一员, 就像另一个女售货员一样, 一个沉默寡言、患有肺结核的小身体。

Source: Women's Paradise (Middle)

" All right, " she said, and, taking the little hand of the boy into her own white hand, she returned to the consumptive's mother.

“好吧,”她说,然后将男孩的小手握在自己白皙的手中,然后回到肺病患者的母亲身边。

Source: Resurrection

" She is consumptive, and the sort of life she leads isn't exactly the thing to cure her. She has taken to her bed; she is dying" .

" 本来她就有肺病,而过那种生活又不利于调养,结果现在卧床不起,人快死了。"

Source: The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas fils

Two very sad betting men were playing billiards, attended by a moist, consumptive marker; and for the moment Silas imagined that these were the only occupants of the apartment.

两个非常悲伤的赌徒正在打台球,旁边是一个湿漉漉、虚弱的记号笔。眼下,塞拉斯想象公寓里只有他们两个人。

Source: New Arabian Nights (Volume 1)

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