1·How does what you do, what you consume, and how you live, impact the environment?
你做的事情、你消费的东西、你生活的方式，如何影响着环境？
2·I am very thankful that we can afford this food and that it is even here and available for us to consume.
我非常感谢我们能买得起这种食物，它甚至在这里供我们消费。
3·Our privacy and security on these sites—in terms of how much we share with others and what we consume—are ultimately up to each of us.
我们在这些网站上的隐私和安全——就我们与他人分享多少和我们消费什么而言——最终取决于我们每一个人。
4·What happens to the centralized electric grid, which took decades and billions of dollars to build, as more and more people become "prosumers", who produce and consume their own energy onsite?
随着越来越多的人成为“产消者”，就地生产和消费自家生产的能源，那么花了几十年时间和数十亿美元才建成的中央电网的命运会如何？
5·I could just not consume anything this year, and I could wait until next year and consume the terminal value.
我今年也可以分文不花，到明年再消费最终价值。
1·Some of the most efficient refrigerators consume 70 percent less electricity than traditional models.
一些能效最高的冰箱比传统型号少消耗70%的电。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Fat people consume more energy than slim people.
胖的人比瘦的人消耗更多的能量。
3·Such systems consume almost no conventional fuel at all.
这种系统几乎不消耗任何传统燃料。
4·Livestock, like cows and sheep, also consume large amounts of crops.
和牛羊一样，家畜也消耗了大量的农作物。
5·Although the system would consume energy, it would return energy to the grid via methane generation from composting nonedible parts of plants.
尽管该系统会消耗能源，但它会通过从植物不可食用的部分堆肥产生的沼气将能源回馈给电网。