Mister Veblen argued that people gathered wealth for the purpose of "conspicuous consumption."

VOA: special.2011.05.01

Those kinds of desires are connected also with that American habit of consumption.

这些渴望也是与美国的,消费习惯相关的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In this article, they talked about the correlation of consumption around the world.

在这篇文章中，他们讨论了世界范围内的消费相关性。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Coal fuels 70 percent of China's energy consumption, making the country the largest consumer and producer of coal in the world.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

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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Critics,including the Australian government, say the research argument is a cover for the sale and consumption of whale meat, which is banned under international regulations.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

just like the line numbers in any modern edition of Milton that's been produced for the likes of you, for the consumption of college English majors.

跟现在版本的弥尔顿诗歌标有行数一样,这是为像你们这样喜欢弥尔顿的人而印上的，还有大学里英语系的学生们。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In 1985,Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ordered dramatic cuts in the production of wines and spirits and introduced strict controls on the public consumption of alcohol.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

We're going to talk in this class a lot about beverages, and it's interesting how the population consumption of calories through beverages has gone way up.

我们会在这堂课上讨论一下饮料问题,人们如何通过饮用大量饮料获取热量,这个问题很值得关注

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Beijing has refused to agree to cap its overall growth in its consumption of fossil fuels or reduce its emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

And I would suggest to you that the consumption of home is driven by a certain kind of desire as well, that desire to move up in the American class structure: "the first electric refrigerator in my family."

而我的看法是对家的消耗,也是由一种特定的渴望驱动的，这种渴望上升到美国的阶级结构：,“我们家的第一台电冰箱“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Choi Jong-kun, an international relations professor at Seoul's Yonsei University, thinks the declaration that Pyongyang violated international law is mainly for the consumption of angry South Koreans.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

.. The problem is again the ideal-- they're trying to work toward what I think of an ideal that we see in finance-- 1 mainly, the perfect correlation of consumption and the elimination of risk--we all help each other.

问题又回到了理想-,他们为之奋斗的这种理想状态,如果用金融学的理念来解读-,就是消费与风险消除的相关系数为,即完全正相关，所有人都互助互利。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"Close to 60 percent of our gold consumption happens in rural areas.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

What they argued in this paper was that, if we had perfect risk management, then there would be perfect correlation of consumption across countries because if we get rid of the idiosyncratic risks, then all that's left is planet-wide risks.

他们在论文中的观点是，如果我们有完善的风险管理,那在不同国家之间的消费呈完全相关,因为如果我们消除了特有风险，那只剩下全球范围内的市场风险。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In Asia,parts of South America, Russia and other former Soviet bloc countries, experts think a higher consumption of preserved and salted food and poorly refrigerated food could be links.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

But if we have credit markets, then people can individually choose to be off the production possibility frontier and at a higher level of consumption than otherwise would.

但如果存在信贷市场,那么个人可以选择超越,PPF曲线的范围,达到比没有信贷市场时更高的消费水平

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And because of the stimulus package consumption activities are reasonably active."

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

Part of--this is the--it's not loan-to-value ratio-- this is the ratio of mortgage debt to personal consumption expenditure.

这并非贷款价值比率的问题,一定程度上,是抵押率的问题,即负债对个人消费支出的比率

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Meanwhile,consumption of cereals and root crops has been fairly flat.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

Every country computes an estimate of how much is spent each year on consumption by the people who live in the country.

每个国家估算出,生活在该国国内居民,每年的消费额。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Critics,including the Australian and New Zealand governments, say such arguments are a cover for the sale and consumption of whale meat, which is banned under an international moratorium on commercial hunting.

VOA: standard.2010.01.05

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%

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

(SPEAKING) He says it will not be a big part of national consumption, but Grand says it will certainly give other people the idea to do the same thing across West Africa.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选