Each of us must also sell something, even if for most of us it is our own services rather than goods, in order to get the purchasing power to buy.

每个人都必须卖些东西给别人，才能获得购买力，才有钱去买别人的东西；只不过我们中的大多数人卖的是自身的劳务，而不是出售商品。

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The first is deceptively called "total retail sales of consumer goods" - misleading because it counts all goods purchased, including wholesale, rather than goods sold to people in shops;

第一个迷惑人的数据就是“社会商品零售总额”，之所以是误导人的因为它将所有被购买的商品都包含了进来，包括了批发，而不是商店里卖给人们的商品。

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It would be better to transport the goods by rail rather than by road.

用铁路运送这批货物会比用公路好。

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Worse still, most of these jobs came from the goods-consuming service sector rather than the goods-producing manufacturing sector (which lost another 6, 000 jobs).

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It will stop the spam that spoofs its origins because it only wants to collect live e-mail addresses, rather than sell goods.

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The first reason is that households need only so many cars, fridges or microwaves, so as they become richer they tend to spend a bigger chunk of their income on services, such as holidays, health and education, rather than on goods.

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