Consumptive credit is an effective means of promoting the increase of consumer demand. 信用消费是促进消费需求增长的有效手段。
Some proteins in muscles are also used for emergency when in hunger or in consumptive diseases. 肌肉中一些蛋白质在饥饿时及消耗性疾患中,也被动用以应急需。
We are establishing the model for the professional supplier of consumptive material of the laser printer! 我们正在为激光打印机耗材专业供应商树立典范!
consumptive
[ noun ]
a person with pulmonary tuberculosis
<noun.person> [ adj ]
tending to consume or use often wastefully
<adj.all> water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses duties consumptive of time and energy consumptive fires
afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis
<adj.all> a consumptive patient a consumptive cough
Consumptive \Con*sump"tive\, n. One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.
Consumptive \Con*sump"tive\, a. [Cf. F. consomptif.] 1. Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.
It [prayer] is not consumptive or our time. --Sharp.
A long consumptive war. --Addison.
2. (Med.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption.
The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. --Dryden.
Perhaps the most readily distorted aspect of the novel is Tom's adoration of Eva, the consumptive child of his kind but irresolute master, Augustine St. Clare.
Men while away the time playing cards alongside the coffin of the young consumptive; the English squaddies drink up the hot tea abandoned in the deserted flat.
From Sarah Bernhardt to Eleanora Duse to Greta Garbo to Maria Callas, the consumptive courtesan who dies for love has been a staple on stage, on screen and in the opera house.