consumptive

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

Translation

adj. 消費的,消耗性的
n. 肺病患者
Word Forms

Phrases & Collocations

consumptive behavior

消費行爲

consumptive lifestyle

消費生活方式

Example Sentences

tourism represents an insidious form of consumptive activity.

旅遊業是消耗性行爲的潛在體現。

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

結果與結論:2000年~2003年抗震顫麻痹藥中購藥金額最大的爲左旋多巴/苄絲肼;

Real-world Examples

He won't limply surrender like some consumptive Romantic.

他纔不會像那些得了肺癆的浪漫主義者那樣輕易的向死亡投降。

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.

古希臘人將這一肺病稱爲 “癆”;印加人將其稱爲 “癆瘵”,英國人稱之爲“肺結核”。

Source: Bilingual Edition of TED-Ed Selected Speeches

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

。 一位法國女演員以新穎的方式展示肺結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們, 咳嗽着看着他們。

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.

富裕卻憂傷的英國男子亨利·布蘭德林(Henry Brandling)來到德國,希望能找人制造出一個美妙的“機械奇蹟”,好讓他身患肺癆的兒子能從中汲取戰勝病魔的希望。

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.

肺病患者懷裏抱着孩子,守門女不停地用靈巧的手指織襪子,走到瑪斯洛娃跟前。

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.

在第一個月結束時, 丹妮絲已經完全成爲這個家庭的一員, 就像另一個女售貨員一樣, 一個沉默寡言、患有肺結核的小身體。

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,”她說,然後將男孩的小手握在自己白皙的手中,然後回到肺病患者的母親身邊。

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" .

" 本來她就有肺病,而過那種生活又不利於調養,結果現在臥牀不起,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.

兩個非常悲傷的賭徒正在打檯球,旁邊是一個溼漉漉、虛弱的記號筆。眼下,塞拉斯想象公寓裏只有他們兩個人。

Source: New Arabian Nights (Volume 1)

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