Chinese-Americans could buy goods, mail letters and money home, get news about the community and meet with friends.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

The vast multitudes were still farmers, but they began to now buy goods, manufactured goods, readymade clothing and shoes, cloth, candles, soap, all kinds of foodstuffs.

他们中的大多数人仍是农民,但是他们开始购买商品,工业制成品,成衣和鞋,布料,蜡烛,肥皂,各种各类的食品

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Many companies use animals to make us want to buy their goods.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

"If you're a poor shopkeeper living in a very impoverished part of Botswana and you're trying to feed your family, trying to buy and sell goods, trying to get medical services for your kids or your employees, and you speak a local language, there's nothing on today's Web that's going to help you,right?

VOA: special.2010.11.08