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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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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But when you remember that the subject at hand is actually in some way sex, then you can begin to associate the Lady's image of this moderate consumption of natural wealth - with some version of -- if this makes sense -- some version of an act of sexual consummation.

但是当你们想起,现在讨论的话题其实是性，然后你们可以将这位女士,关于适量消费自然财富的形象,与一些版本--如果那有意义-,一些版本关于性圆满的行为联系起来。

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Now, it raises lots of interesting issues if a company does that and then boasts about it on the packaging or in marketing, because then people could overestimate how good those products are for them, so a lot of consumer education has to be done.

现在如果一个公司改进之后,在其包装,或市场上大肆宣扬,会引发许多争议,因为人们可能因此高估了,这些食品对其健康起到的作用,可见消费者应该对此有更多了解

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Well, now we're talking some real after inflation returns that can be consumed.

现在看看剔除通货膨胀后,可供消费的真实回报率

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Saving and Loan Associations, by the way, no longer exclusively limit themselves to mortgage lending -either they do home improvement lending and auto loans and the like as well.

顺便提一下,储贷协会,现在也不仅限于发放抵押贷款,他们也发放住房装修贷款,及汽车消费贷款之类的

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Now there was inflation with regard to a basket of the Consumer Price Index is not just the price of gold; it's the price of many things but the there would be inflation or deflation as the relative price of gold changed.

现在，就一组物品来说，是存在通货膨胀的,消费者价格指数并不仅仅是金子的价格；,它是很多东西的价格，但是,当金子的相对价格变化时,通货膨胀或通货紧缩就会发生。

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We now have something else called the Consumer Price Index.

而我们现在有了所谓的,消费者物价指数CPI

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