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。
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。
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。
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。
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 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？
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。
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。
However, as American culture has become increasingly consumerist, Americans are spending more and more money on presents that one-year-olds don't need and are not able to understand or enjoy.
然而，随着美国文化越来越倾向于消费主义，如今，美国人在购买礼物上花的钱越来越多，而那些一岁的婴儿根本不需要也不能理解或者享受这些礼物。
Acknowledging the chaos and wastefulness of typical consumerist living can help you see not only the way it affects you personally, but the impact it has on your community, the world you inhabit.
若是能够意识到信奉消费主义所带来的混乱和浪费，你就能够更清楚看到它是如何影响你自身，甚至包括你所栖居的社区以及世界。
Acknowledging the chaos and wastefulness of typical consumerist living can help you see not only the way it affects you personally, but the impact it has on your community, the world you inhabit.
若是能够意识到信奉消费主义所带来的混乱和浪费，你就能够更清楚看到它是如何影响你自身，甚至包括你所栖居的社区以及世界。
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