In an ideal world, where you can borrow and lend freely, an individual could choose consumption along any point on this line.

在理想情况下,你可以随意借贷,每个人都可以将这条线上任意一点,作为自己的消费额

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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。

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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。

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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

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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“

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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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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。

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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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The correlation across countries in consumption changes is low.

国家间的消费相关性,变化很小。

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.. 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。

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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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