In this consumerist age, most buyers aren't evaluating college as an investment, but rather as a consumer product—like a car or clothes or a house.
在这个消费主义的时代，大多数买家并没有把大学视为一种投资，而是把它视作一种消费品——就像汽车、衣服或房子一样。
Opinion surveys in the world's two largest economies—Japan and the United States—show consumerist definitions of success becoming ever more prevalent.
世界上最大的两个经济体——日本和美国——的民意调查显示，对于成功的消费主义定义变得越来越流行。
The greeting may be deemed materialistic, consumerist, atheistic, indifferentist, agnostic, politically correct or anti-Christian.
问候可以被认为是唯物主义的，消费主义的，无神论的，冷漠的，不可知论的，政治上正确的或反基督教的。
Sherlock offers tips for how to raise children that aren't part of the consumerist culture.
Sherlock提供了非消费主义的抚养孩子的技巧。
Just think about companies like Apple which have raised cognitive fluency to a consumerist religion.
只要想一想苹果这种把消费者奉若神明的公司是如何发挥认知流利的作用就知道了。
We spend so much in a show of consumerist greed, when that money could go to feed a few dozen families.
就在我们本可以用这些钱喂活几十个家庭时，我们却在彰显消费主义者的贪婪。
The consumerist, material world that we live in makes it difficult to keep living a thrifty lifestyle.
在这个充满着消费主义的物质世界里，在我们的生活当中，几乎难以保持以前那种节俭的生活方式。
Especially in the so-called consumerist society of the present, I think one must resort to cold literature.
尤其是现今这个号称消费的社会，我以为恰恰得诉诸一种冷的文学。
When we allow ourselves to be branded with these types of corporate terms, we’ve given in to the consumerist mindset.
当我们允许我们自己变成一个品牌公司的团队时，我们就获得了这种消费主义心态。
All those people in Guangdong and other places producing goods for our consumerist societies would be out of work.
广东和其他地方那些为我们生产消费品的工人们会因此而失业。
It gets to its worst point during the holidays -we become engaged in a consumerist frenzy that frankly scares me sometimes.
这一思想在节日的时候很是泛滥。我们变得如此渴望消费以至于有时候我都认不出那是我自己。
Presently the success stories are the plural, liberal societies - what I call the unholy alliance of consumerist unbelievers.
目前成功的经验都是多元的自由社会——我称之为消费主义无信仰者的非神圣同盟。
In May, The Consumerist published an E-mail from a Verizon subscriber complaining about non-essential software loaded on his device.
在5月，Consumerist发表了一封来自Verizon用户抱怨他的设备上预装的不必要软件的电子邮件。
The lion-like image of the department store ruling over human lives is symbolic of the highs and lows of consumerist culture today.
商店如狮虎般控制着人类的生命，象征了当今消费主义文化的起起落落。
The same, of course, is true of all other technology and sleek consumerist products. It's just that Apple is better at it than most.
当然，所有其他的科技和光鲜的消费产品都是如此，只是苹果公司更精于此道。
But perhaps more important will be the emergence of an older, more mature, less frenetic, less consumerist, and more frugal society.
但也许更为重要的是一个久经沧桑、更为成熟、不再狂热、不再物质主义并且更为节俭的社会将出现在我们面前。
Consumerist post pointed out one of the oldest and most common tricks, which must still work because you see it everywhere you shop.
一份消费者邮报指出，最老套也是最常见的一个小伎俩，肯定你见过，那就是售价以9结尾。
I used to advocate going through a sort of consumerist catechism before making any consumer purchasing decision. Who made this product?
我曾经倡导消费者在做出购买决定前，自己先做一些消费问答题：谁制作了这件产品？
This year for Valentine's Day I decided to rebel against this consumerist sham by not buying a card. Just kidding. Hopefully next year.
为了对抗情人节的消费主义骗局，我决定今年不买一张卡片。说说而已。希望明年我能做到。
This is more a consumerist obsessed society where people are trying to find ways of getting rid of …I mean it's recycling in a way, isn't it?
这更是一个充斥着消费至上观念的社会，人们希望找到一种处理剩余物品的方法……我认为这不就是一种重复利用的方式吗？
Societal expectations praise busyness as the de-facto standard of how we should live our lives, through the scammy consumerist American Dream.
社会上普遍赞同忙碌，认为我们就是应该这样子的生活，这想法贯穿了骗人的崇尚消费主义的美国梦。
Intended to cut to the heart of consumerist post-modern society and powerfully reminding us of the ephemeral value of a hyper-commercial lifestyle.
这部作品旨在激起人们对后现代消费主义、高度商业化生活方式转瞬即逝的反思。
So for the joy of opening a few presents for a couple hours on Christmas day, we're imparting on them consumerist values that will last them a lifetime.
所以，仅为了在圣诞节打开礼物那几小时的欢快，我们带给他们的可以影响其一生的消费观念。
Strictly, Dark of the Moon is not a film. It is an expensive PR event, a big marketing machine for Hasbro. Welcome to the world of consumerist filmmaking.
严格来说，《月黑之时》并不能算是一部电影。它是一场造价高昂的公关活动，一部孩之宝公司的营销机器。欢迎来到浪费主义电影的世界。
A lot of the consumerist and entertainment activities are so geared toward couples that you kind of get a bit of hurt everywhere in the big cities in China.
很多消费和娱乐活动在很大程度上都是面向情侣的，以至于在中国大城市里，到处都有点让你伤心的感觉。
Significantly, the idealistic figures are contrasted with not only the crass consumerist logo but also with the word "NO" emerging as if a thought-bubble from the figures.
不但如此，那些理想化的形象不单是与笨拙的消费主义品牌形成对比，也和画面对话框中那一个「NO」（「不」）字也形成明显的反差。
While Thay sees following these trainings as a way out of the environmental mess we are in, he is not certain that people are yet ready to change their consumerist way of life.
虽然老师视这些训练为摆脱我们环境混乱状态的方法，但是他并不确定人们已经准备好改变消费至上的生活方式。
Ever since, it has borne a whiff of consumerist self-indulgence, and its advocates then and now are accused of prizing sensation over anything more profound or ostensibly value-laden.
从那以后，这一权利就被蒙上了消费主义自我放纵的色彩，而且，这一权利的提倡者鼓吹感觉至上、忽视其他一切深刻且有价值的事物，也时常受到指责。
Ever since, it has borne a whiff of consumerist self-indulgence, and its advocates then and now are accused of prizing sensation over anything more profound or ostensibly value-laden.
从那以后，这一权利就被蒙上了消费主义自我放纵的色彩，而且，这一权利的提倡者鼓吹感觉至上、忽视其他一切深刻且有价值的事物，也时常受到指责。
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