"Many people underestimate the health risks of their own cigarette consumption, thinking that a few cigarettes here and there, a few cigarettes every day,are harmless.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

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

What Backus, Kehoe, and Kydland did was look at how much the consumption correlates-- the movement from year to year-- correlate across countries.

巴克斯，凯赫和基德兰德做的就是,研究这些消费的相关性-,不同年份消费的相关性-,不同国家的不同运动规律。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

VOA: special.2011.05.01

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

But religious leaders, like Pope Benedict, have been reminding the faithful that consumption is not the way to find meaning.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

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

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Analysts say the Balkan country is struggling with its worst economic slump since independence in 1991, as consumption,investments and exports have tumbled.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

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

Leonhart says La Familia is philosophically opposed to selling methamphetamine to Mexicans, but eagerly exports the drug to the United States for consumption.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

They enforced complete sharing and if you belonged to a kibbutz you were completely stuck with the common consumption.

强迫人们绝对共享,如果你是某个集体农场的一员,就彻底受到共同消费的制约。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

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

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

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

Patrick Michael from the conservative Cato Institute doesn't address environmental issues around consumption.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

It's the amount that people spend on consumption goods, things that you buy for your current use, like food, shelter, clothing, etc.

它是人们购买消费品所花费的总额，为每日生活所买的东西，比如食物，住宿，衣物等。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

She cites oil consumption figures as an example that contradict the IEA's findings.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

That is, when one country's consumption increases from one year to the next, every other country's consumption increases from one year to the next.

也就是，当一个国家的消费,逐年上升，其他国家的消费,也逐年上升。

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

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

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

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

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

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

"It is a strategy in which Asian and Pacific markets are open to our exports, and one in which prosperity around the world is no longer as dependent on American consumption and borrowing, but rather more on American innovation and products,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

They think, it doesn't matter what I do, I'm going to get the same consumption as everybody else, so I'll just get lazy-- a very fundamental problem, which you probably are already aware of.

因为他们知道，无论做了什么，都会享受与其他人相同的消费水平，所以偷懒就行了-,想必你们都已经意识到了，道德风险在这里是极其重要的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

.. 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