consummatory act

• 耗尽

consummatory act的用法和样例：

例句

1. Once this scene was invented, nothing remained for the author to do except to prepare for it in a first act, and to use up its backwash in a third.
   对于该作者来说，有了这个场景，便完事大吉了，余下只消第一幕为它做铺垫，第三幕耗尽它的余波。