1·Other ancient bacteria consumed methane, greatly reducing its amount in the atmosphere.
其他古代细菌消耗甲烷，大大减少了甲烷在大气中的含量。
2·We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced and discarded at an ever increasing rate.
我们需要以越来越快的速度消耗、燃烧、磨损、替换和丢弃东西。
3·With the use of fire and grindstones, large amounts of cereals were consumed and transformed into staple foods.
由于使用火和磨石，大量谷物被消耗并转化为主食。
4·About 70% of this is consumed by the global agriculture sector, and the level of use will continue to rise over the coming decades.
其中约70%是由全球农业部门消耗的，在未来几十年里使用水平将继续上升。
5·Cars account for half the oil consumed in the U.S., about half the urban pollution and one fourth the greenhouse gases.
汽车消耗了美国一半的石油，导致了美国约半数的城市污染和四分之一的温室气体。
1·This will be total quantity of goods produced by Firm 1 and goods produced by Firm 2 that are consumed.
这是公司1和公司2各自生产的产品的总消费。
2·The big change is the availability of more data about people and things, which allows physical assets to be divided and consumed as services.
最大的变化是人们可以获得更多关于人和事物的数据，这使得实物资产可以作为服务进行分割和消费。
3·Buying gifts or giving to charity is often more pleasurable than purchasing things for oneself, and luxuries are most enjoyable when they are consumed sparingly.
买礼物或捐赠给慈善机构往往比给自己买东西更令人愉快，而只有节制性地消费，奢侈品才能带来最大的愉悦。
4·Just 23 percent of the fruit and vegetables consumed in the UK are currently home-grown, so even with the most extreme measures we could meet only 30 percent of our fresh produce needs.
目前，英国消费的水果和蔬菜中只有23%是本土种植的，所以即使采取最极端的措施，我们也只能满足30%的新鲜农产品需求。
5·A country's standard of living does not only depend upon the wealth that is produced and consumed within its own borders, but also upon what is indirectly produced through international trade.
一个国家的生活水平不仅取决于国内生产和消费的财富，还取决于通过国际贸易间接生产的财富。
1·Most of the time was consumed in moving resources between servers and especially the disks.
在服务器之间，特别是磁盘之间移动资源消费了大部分时间。
2·Last year China consumed 2,252b tons of the oil equivalent of coal, oil, nuclear power, natural gas and hydropower, about 4% more than the US, the IEA data showed.
数据显示，去年，中国消费了22.52亿吨石油当量的能源，其来源包括煤炭、石油、核电、天然气和水电等，比美国高出大约4%。
3·Services are useful only insofar as they are consumed, and so the best way of specifying their usefulness is to describe what consumers expect of them.
服务只有被消费了才有用；所以，要规定服务的效用，最好的方式就是描述消费者对它们有何期望。
4·Abundance of meat is consumed every day.
每天消费了大量的肉食。