1·The complaints procedure is clumsy and time-consuming.
申诉程序复杂耗时。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·It's just very time consuming to get such a large quantity of data.
要收集这么多的数据就是非常耗时。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·Going to court can be an expensive, time-consuming, and gut-wrenching experience that is best avoided.
上法庭会是种费钱，费时间，并带来精神痛苦的经历，最好能加以避免。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
4·It is less time-consuming.
它耗时更短。
5·Non-consuming activities are active, not passive.
非消费活动是主动的，而不是被动的。
6·They are too often built around consuming natural resources.
它们大多是建立在消耗自然资源基础上的。
7·He must store a large quantity of grain instead of consuming all his grain immediately.
他必须储存大量的谷物，而不是立即消耗掉所有的谷物。
8·They overturn rocks to find them and consuming as many as 40,000 apiece in a single day.
为了找到这些他们，它们会翻倒岩石，一天就能消耗4万多块。
9·You'll have to make social media an occasional activity rather than a daily, time-consuming habit.
你将不得不让使用社交媒体成为一项偶尔为之的活动，而不是每天都要做的、耗费时间的习惯。
10·Americans are willing to tolerate time-consuming security procedures in return for increased safety.
美国人愿意忍受耗时的安全程序，来换取更高的安全性。
1·They are too often built around consuming natural resources.
它们大多是建立在消耗自然资源基础上的。
2·They overturn rocks to find them and consuming as many as 40,000 apiece in a single day.
为了找到这些他们，它们会翻倒岩石，一天就能消耗4万多块。
3·Since African agriculture is still broadly unproductive, food is imported, consuming a portion of revenue.
由于非洲的农业仍然普遍缺乏生产力，所以粮食需要进口，消耗了一部分收入。
4·"As long as we're consuming fossil fuels, we're putting out CO2," says Klaus Lackner, a geophysicist at Columbia University.
“只要我们还在消耗化石燃料，我们就在排放二氧化碳。”哥伦比亚大学的地球物理学家克劳斯· 拉克内说。
5·These beavers do know how to build dams, and do so if the need arises, as may occur if they are forced to relocate after felling and consuming all nearby trees.
这些海狸知道如何建造水坝，而且在有需要的时候就会这么做，比如当它们在砍伐和消耗了附近所有的树木后被迫迁移的时候。
1·"We had assumed that the biggest focus of these devices would be consuming the content," said Tracy Futhey, vice president for information technology and chief information officer at Duke.
“我们曾以为这些设备的最大关注点将是对内容的消费。”杜克大学信息技术副总裁兼首席信息官特蕾西·富西说。
2·The goal is to create more, while consuming less.
目的就是创造更多，而同时消费更少。
3·Keynes assumes that a person's income depends on the consumption of the product being sold, and by extension believes that by not consuming, one is denying a wage earner a wage.
凯恩斯认定一个人的收入受制于对正在出售的产品的消费。进一步，凯恩斯还相信，一个人不消费，就是拒绝向工资劳动者给付工资。
4·The answer should definitely be “No” because these services are consuming your system’s resources and also slowing your system’s boot process.
答案肯定是否定的，因为这些服务会消费你的系统资源并且将电脑启动速度拖慢。
5·That growth has transformed global energy markets and sustained higher prices for everything from oil to uranium and other natural resources that China has been consuming.
中国经济增长改变了全球能源市场，并使中国消费的每样能源，从石油到铀再到其他自然资源的价格居高不下。
1·"I'm in this grad program right now, and it's totally consuming," he said.
“目前我正在毕业生程序项目中并且这非常强烈”，他说。
2·Months into third grade, I developed a consuming worry about getting subpar grades.
在三年级读了几个月，由于担心成绩达不到平均水平，我被一种强烈的焦虑折磨着。