Mister Veblen argued that people gathered wealth for the purpose of "conspicuous consumption."

VOA: special.2011.05.01

They enforced complete sharing and if you belonged to a kibbutz you were completely stuck with the common consumption.

强迫人们绝对共享,如果你是某个集体农场的一员,就彻底受到共同消费的制约。

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It's the amount that people spend on consumption goods, things that you buy for your current use, like food, shelter, clothing, etc.

它是人们购买消费品所花费的总额，为每日生活所买的东西，比如食物，住宿，衣物等。

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But religious leaders, like Pope Benedict, have been reminding the faithful that consumption is not the way to find meaning.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

just like the line numbers in any modern edition of Milton that's been produced for the likes of you, for the consumption of college English majors.

跟现在版本的弥尔顿诗歌标有行数一样,这是为像你们这样喜欢弥尔顿的人而印上的，还有大学里英语系的学生们。

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Studies show that global sugar consumption has risen dramatically from 11 million tons in 1900 to about 145 million tons today.

VOA: standard.2010.04.25

Those kinds of desires are connected also with that American habit of consumption.

这些渴望也是与美国的,消费习惯相关的。

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Coal fuels 70 percent of China's energy consumption, making the country the largest consumer and producer of coal in the world.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

We're going to talk in this class a lot about beverages, and it's interesting how the population consumption of calories through beverages has gone way up.

我们会在这堂课上讨论一下饮料问题,人们如何通过饮用大量饮料获取热量,这个问题很值得关注

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Analysts say the Balkan country is struggling with its worst economic slump since independence in 1991, as consumption,investments and exports have tumbled.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Equal justice, he tells us, requires equal taxation policy and he seems to be proposing a kind of consumption tax so that the rich, who consume more will have to pay their fair share.

再者，社会公平是建立在等同的税收政策上的,霍布斯还提议征收消费税,如此一来，富人就会因为消费得多，而缴纳相对公平的税收份额。

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But a new study says, most continue to focus on consumption, And those values will have to change to avoid more environmental damage.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

Part of--this is the--it's not loan-to-value ratio-- this is the ratio of mortgage debt to personal consumption expenditure.

这并非贷款价值比率的问题,一定程度上,是抵押率的问题,即负债对个人消费支出的比率

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Leonhart says La Familia is philosophically opposed to selling methamphetamine to Mexicans, but eagerly exports the drug to the United States for consumption.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

In an ideal world, where you can borrow and lend freely, an individual could choose consumption along any point on this line.

在理想情况下,你可以随意借贷,每个人都可以将这条线上任意一点,作为自己的消费额

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One is the mega-chain Wal-Mart. "On one hand,Wal-Mart's whole business model is based on consumption.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

Every country computes an estimate of how much is spent each year on consumption by the people who live in the country.

每个国家估算出,生活在该国国内居民,每年的消费额。

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Critics,including the Australian government, say the research argument is a cover for the sale and consumption of whale meat, which is banned under international regulations.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

That is, when one country's consumption increases from one year to the next, every other country's consumption increases from one year to the next.

也就是，当一个国家的消费,逐年上升，其他国家的消费,也逐年上升。

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In 1985,Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ordered dramatic cuts in the production of wines and spirits and introduced strict controls on the public consumption of alcohol.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

And I would suggest to you that the consumption of home is driven by a certain kind of desire as well, that desire to move up in the American class structure: "the first electric refrigerator in my family."

而我的看法是对家的消耗,也是由一种特定的渴望驱动的，这种渴望上升到美国的阶级结构：,“我们家的第一台电冰箱“

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She cites oil consumption figures as an example that contradict the IEA's findings.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

If I consume less than my income today, I'm saving and my consumption would be lower this year.

如果我花的比赚的少,我在储蓄,今年的消费就会较少

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And they're overfished almost everywhere because they are so desired for human consumption."

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

You can see that in the early 1950s mortgage debt was only something like 25% of personal consumption expenditure, but now it's up to about 100%.

抵押贷款在20世纪50年代,只占个人消费支出的25%,现在却占到几乎100%

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Beijing has refused to agree to cap its overall growth in its consumption of fossil fuels or reduce its emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

What Backus, Kehoe, and Kydland did was look at how much the consumption correlates-- the movement from year to year-- correlate across countries.

巴克斯，凯赫和基德兰德做的就是,研究这些消费的相关性-,不同年份消费的相关性-,不同国家的不同运动规律。

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Patrick Michael from the conservative Cato Institute doesn't address environmental issues around consumption.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

The budget constraint is going to have a different slope to it and preferences will be different over this horizon between consumption then and consumption now.

预算约束线的斜率会有所不同,人们对即时消费和延期消费的偏好,也会有所不同

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In this article, they talked about the correlation of consumption around the world.

在这篇文章中，他们讨论了世界范围内的消费相关性。

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