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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So in a sense the fact that there's a more critical screen, there's more of a careful thought process, the fact that customers are pickier with their money today, all of that really is a chance to make people better.

所以实际上，如果环境更为挑剔，人们的构思过程就会更为严谨细致，现在的消费者花每一分钱都精打细算，这其中产生的是让人们生活的更好的商机。

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The only risks that are left are risks that everyone shares, so you would see planet-wide risks expressing themselves in consumption, but nothing else.

唯一剩下的风险,就是每人分担的那些风险，所以你会看到全球的市场风险,以消费的形式表现出来，再无其他。

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Each consumer is going to buy one product, either from Firm 1 or from Firm 2.

每个消费者会买一个产品,从公司1买或者从公司2买

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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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In the second case, if both firms undercut each other, you end up with low prices, that's actually good for consumers but bad for firms.

在第二个案例中,如果两家企业互相削弱,最终会压低价格,这对消费者有利,但对企业不利

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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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No, if I'm saving this year my consumption would be less than my income, so my consumption might be here and I would then have more next year.

错了,如果我今年增加储蓄,我的消费就会少于收入,这里表示消费,明年我就会有更多的收入

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