今天，家庭的主要经济活动是消费性的，尽管家庭中有些成员在社会上所干的可能是生产性的。
Today the main economic activities of the family are in the nature of consumption-however productive may be what some of its members do in society.
文章认为先锋小说的艺术品性在于文本的充分自足，它给创作主体带来了自由创造的愉悦，给读者则提供了消费性的满足。
The paper argues that the merit of pioneer novel is the completeness of the text itself, which provides the writer with freedom of happiness and the reader with consuming satisfaction.
总之，随着现代都市消费性的增强与扩大，都市空间结构中的这种艺术假构性特征将日益明显，并且将越来越引起人们广泛地重视。
With the spread of an unban consumer society, this trend has been inflated, or, one could simply say that the fictional quality of urban spaces has been stressed in order to attract people.
那是一个炫耀性消费的时代—有钱人喜欢摆阔。
It was an age of conspicuous consumption – those who had money liked to display it.
基础经济学认为，潜在消费者越多，价格更优惠的可能性就越大。
Basic economics suggests the greater the potential consumers, the higher the likelihood of a better price.
部分原因是消费者和企业都越来越意识到保护环境的必要性。
It is also partly due to both consumers and companies becoming more aware of the need to protect our environment.
金属餐盒的耐用性有益于消费者。
The durability of metal meal containers benefited consumers.
通过提供帮助延长产品寿命的服务，他们向消费者确保产品的质量和耐用性，还因其环保的做法而赢得声誉。
By offering services to help expand the longevity of their products, they' re promising quality and durability to consumers, and receiving the reputational gains for being environmentally friendly.
他们通过观看广告参与进来并且真正带着批判性眼光评估该广告涉及的消费者行为，他们有时还参与做初步的研究。
They get involved by looking at advertising and really critically assessing the consumer behavior aspects of it and getting involved sometimes, doing primary research.
第三个风险是，消费者可能会推断出预期的结论，但对其推论的有效性提出质疑。
A third risk is that consumers may infer the intended conclusion but question the validity of their inference.
它变得如此经典，以至于1985年它试图改变口味、通过增加甜味来提高销量的时候出现了灾难性的结果，遭遇了消费者的普遍反对和愤怒。
It's become so iconic that attempts to change its taste in 1985—sweetening it in a move projected to boost sales—proved disastrous, with widespread backlash and anger from consumers.
通过提供延长产品寿命的服务，他们向消费者承诺质量和耐用性，并获得了环保的赞誉。
By offering services to help expand the longevity of their products, they're promising quality and durability to consumers, and receiving the reputational gains for being environmentally friendly.
它变得非常具有标志性。1985年，人们试图改变它的口味，并计划通过增加甜味来提高销售量，但事实证明，这种尝试是灾难性的，消费者普遍感到愤怒。
It's become so iconic that attempts to change its taste in 1985—sweetening it in a move projected to boost sales—proved disastrous, with widespread anger from consumers.
具有相似人口统计学特征的消费者之间存在实质性差异。
There are substantial differences among consumers with similar demographic characteristics.
这些品牌鼓励注重时尚的消费者把衣服视为一次性的——意味着只能洗一两次（尽管他们并没有这样宣传），并且每隔几周就更新一次他们的衣柜。
These labels encourage style-conscious consumers to see clothes as disposable—meant to last only a wash or two (although they don't advertise that), and to renew their wardrobe every few weeks.
这些品牌鼓励注重时尚的消费者把衣服视为一次性的——意味着只能洗一两次（尽管他们并没有这样宣传），并且每隔几周就更新一次他们的衣柜。
These labels encourage style-conscious consumers to see clothes as disposable—meant to last only a wash or two (although they don't advertise that), and to renew their wardrobe every few weeks.
该行业正押注打赌：那些花更多钱为“自由放养”、“非转基因”、“牧场饲养鸡蛋”等高品质属性买单的消费者，同样会欣然接受可持续性的概念。
The industry is betting that the same consumers paying more for premium attributes such as free-range, non-GMO, and pasture-raised eggs will embrace sustainability.
在选择购买产品和品牌时，越来越多的消费者开始关注可持续性。
When choosing what products to buy and which brands to buy from, more and more consumers are looking into sustainability.
在梅赛德斯，这意味着裁员、精简生产和满足消费者需求——对于这家一度认为自己已无法改善的公司来说，这是革命性的举措。
At Mercedes, cutting payrolls, streamlining production and opening up to consumer needs are revolutionary steps for a company that once considered itself beyond improvement.
猛增的油价扭曲了消费性开支，日本的地震扰乱了供应链。
Soaring oil prices crimped consumer spending. The Japanese earthquake disturbed supply chains.
但即令是生产性劳动者的消费也不全是生产性消费。
But the consumption even of productive labourers is not all of it productive consumption.
这种模式处理这些泡沫(包括由他们引起的其他消费性开支)作为新的标准。
The models came to treat those bubbles - and the additional consumer spending they caused - as the new normal.
问题比原本应该得到的关注更少，原因在于它处在从研究到服务消费的专业性和策略域的界线。
The problem has received less attention than it should because it falls along the boundaries of professional and policy domains, from research to payment for services.
消费者信心通过评估消费者存款和消费的活跃性所显示的对财政状况的乐观态度。
Consumer Confidence Optimism over the state of the economy shown by assessing consumer saving and spending activity.
西班牙与爱尔兰大量减少资本预算，但是对消费性开支的缩减更大。
Spain and Ireland have made large cuts in their capital budgets but have lowered current spending by more.
经济恢复需要依靠占第三季增长的三分之二的消费性开支，但是汽油带走了越来越多的消费者资源。
Recovery remains reliant on consumer spending, which accounted for two-thirds of third-quarter growth. But petrol is absorbing a rising share of consumer resources.
像把垃圾食品从冰箱里清出去；不要去让你会产生冲动性消费的地方。
Remove junk food from your house. Don't go to places where you might break your budget.
赫特福德大学教授、《女性经济议题》一书的作者凯伦•派恩说：“这种消费类型，或称为补偿性消费，可以调节紧张的情绪。”
"This type of spending, or compensatory consumption, serves as a way of regulating intense emotions," said Karen Pine, a University of Hertfordshire professor and author of "Sheconomics" .
赫特福德大学教授、《女性经济议题》一书的作者凯伦•派恩说：“这种消费类型，或称为补偿性消费，可以调节紧张的情绪。”
"This type of spending, or compensatory consumption, serves as a way of regulating intense emotions," said Karen Pine, a University of Hertfordshire professor and author of "Sheconomics" .
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