"I don't want to spend more than twenty dollars for a backpack." Consumer spending is seventy percent of the economic activity in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

But I was a really good programmer and I wanted to understand the consumer side of the Internet.

但我是个很好的程序设计师,我想了解互联网关于消费者的一面。

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Shortly after we decide to become a consumer brand, I realized that our technology was not as good.

公司转型后不久，我意识到我们的技术没有那么好。

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"I think consumer spending numbers are reflective of the job numbers, which continue to be weak."

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

It amounts to 2 to 3% of calories for the average consumer, and as I mentioned, Trans fats are not so good.

平均每位消费者,有2-3%的热量来自反式脂肪,正如我所说,反式脂肪不那么好

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And so this is why in problem set 5 last year when I took photographs on campus with a compact flash card, just standard consumer media and I accidentally formatted that compact flash card, I only lost the first few kilobytes, the first few thousand bits on that compact flash card.

这也是去年的套题5中,我们在校园里面用配有，简易闪存卡的标准摄像机拍照片,我不小心格式化了这个简易闪存卡,其实我只是丢失的最开头的几千个字节的数据。

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So it's a tough economy and you'd say, "Well geez, I want to do a startup. Is there going to be an investment out there? Well geez, I want to sell to customers and they're going to need to buy equipment to do things, or geez I want to appeal to advertisers, and there's got to be a consumer demand out there."

因此经济愈发不景气，你们会说“天哪，我想要卷土重来,会有人给我投资吗？,我想向人们出售产品,他们会需要买些设备来做事的，哦天哪，我想向广告商招标，总会有消费者需求的“

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So I made the decision to switch gear and become a consumer-oriented search site.

所以我决定将公司转型,成为一家客户导向型的搜索网站。

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