The complaints procedure is clumsy and time-consuming.

申诉程序复杂耗时。

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。

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。

It is less time-consuming.

它耗时更短。

Non-consuming activities are active, not passive.

非消费活动是主动的，而不是被动的。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

"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。

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。

"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。

Basketball is his consuming passion.

篮球令他着迷。

He has developed a consuming passion for chess.

他对国际象棋已经产生了浓厚的兴趣。

Nursing a demented person is an all-consuming task.

护理一个精神错乱的人是一项非常耗力的任务。

Haig's rise was fuelled by an all-consuming sense of patriotic duty.

黑格的崛起被一种压倒一切的爱国责任感推动着。

Anyone who considers river time in relation to atomic time will encounter a major imbalance and may be motivated to counteract it by consuming less fuel or supporting greener policies.

任何认为河流时间应与原子时间对应的人都会遇到严重的失衡，他们也可能会通过消耗更少的燃料或支持更环保的政策来抵消这种不平衡。

Currently, most ingredients must be changed to a paste before a printer can use them, and the printing process is quite time-consuming because ingredients interact with each other in very complex ways.

目前，大多数原材料在放入食物打印机之前需要弄成糊状，由于各食材会以一种复杂的方式相互作用，整个打印过程也很耗时。

You are just consuming neat sugar.

你只是在吃纯的糖。

Consuming a modest snack should be entirely sufficient.

适量吃点零食就足够了。

Every day along the world's busiest border, an expensive and time-consuming pantomime is acted out.

在这个世界上最繁忙的边境地区，每天都在上演着一场昂贵又费时的哑剧。

No, he hath not escaped the fires, the consuming, unpitying, remorseless fires--and they are everlasting!

不，他逃不了永恒的火，那熊熊燃烧的、无情的、没有慈悲的大火——而且它永远不会熄灭！

They might even feel driven to support government measures to prevent people from consuming this deadly stuff.

他们甚至可能会觉得有必要支持政府的措施，以防止人们吸食这种致命的东西。

Shouldn't preparing—and consuming—food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability?

难道准备和享用食物的过程不应该最能给人带来舒适、自豪感、健康、幸福、放松和社交乐趣吗？

Shouldn't preparing and consuming food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well being, relaxation, sociability?

准备食物和吃掉它们的过程不应该让我们感到舒适、自豪、健康、幸福、放松并为我们提供社交吗？

By purchasing and consuming these types of products, have I already done some kind of harm to my family or the planet?

通过购买和食用这些类型的产品，我是否已经对家人或地球造成了某种伤害？

Despite vitamin C's great popularity, consuming large amounts of it still has not been positively linked to any great benefit.

尽管维生素 C 很受欢迎，但摄入大量维生素 C 并没有带来很大的好处。

Now the Office for National Statistics has confirmed that we are consuming 50% more calories than our national statistics claim.

现在，国家统计局已经证实，我们摄入的卡路里比国家统计数据宣称的要多50%。