那是一个炫耀性消费的时代—有钱人喜欢摆阔。
It was an age of conspicuous consumption – those who had money liked to display it.
文化规则决定了食品消费的各个方面。
许多人指责广告是人们过度消费的根源。
Many people condemn advertisements as the root of over-consumption.
与此同时,可能阻碍消费的因素包括“糟糕”的餐桌和拥挤的人流。
Meanwhile, things that may discourage spending include "bad" tables and crowding.
由于这些企业中有许多也为当地居民服务,游客消费的影响很容易被忽视或低估。
Since many of these businesses also serve local residents, the impact of spending by visitors can easily be overlooked or underestimated.
你要消费的金额限制着你的选择。
The amount of money you have to spend will limit your choice.
我们有适合各种程度消费的度假方式。
作为一项业务支出,汽车消费的部分贷款利息是可以扣除的。
Part of the auto-loan interest is deductible as a business expense.
你做的事情、你消费的东西、你生活的方式,如何影响着环境?
How does what you do, what you consume, and how you live, impact the environment?
如果病人自掏腰包支付的钱很少,他们就不会有遏制消费的意愿。
If patients pay very little out of their own pockets, they have little desire to curb consumption.
例如,在美国和欧洲,互联网兴起导致读者对境外新闻消费的下降。
In the U.S. and Europe, for example, the rise of the Internet has led to a declining consumption of news from outside the reader's borders.
当然,过度消费的对立面——贫困——不是环境或人类问题的解决方案。
Of course, the opposite of overconsumption—poverty—is no solution to either environmental or human problems.
随着1895到1896年间投影技术的出现,电影成为大众消费的最终形式。
With the advent of projection in 1895-1896, motion pictures became the ultimate form of mass consumption.
一个国家的生活水平不仅取决于国内生产和消费的财富,还取决于通过国际贸易间接生产的财富。
A country's standard of living does not only depend upon the wealth that is produced and consumed within its own borders, but also upon what is indirectly produced through international trade.
像Vicky和她的朋友们这样的人代表着社会的前沿,是一大批渴望消费的年轻人的先驱者。
People like Vicky and her friends represent the leading edge, the trailblazers for a huge mass of young, eagerly aspirant consumers.
像印第安纳州州长米奇·丹尼尔斯所说的那样,就过度消费的后果展开“成人对话”,似乎是不可能的。
It has seemed unable to have what Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has called an "adult conversation" about the consequences of spending so much more than is taken in.
目前,英国消费的水果和蔬菜中只有23%是本土种植的,所以即使采取最极端的措施,我们也只能满足30%的新鲜农产品需求。
Just 23 percent of the fruit and vegetables consumed in the UK are currently home-grown, so even with the most extreme measures we could meet only 30 percent of our fresh produce needs.
电影播放技术由最初的“西洋镜”的形式演变而来,直到其发展到一个时期;在这个时期中,影像被投影到幽暗的影院屏幕之上,电影才作为一种大众消费的形式而出现。
The cinema did not emerge as a form of mass consumption until its technology evolved from the initial "peepshow" format to the point where images were projected on a screen in a darkened theater.
生产和消费的合理标准究竟如何?
炫耀性消费的最后阵地是太空。
对消费的直接刺激也很难见效。
这只会造成信心和消费的持续下降。
That would only add to a downward spiral of confidence and spending.
刺激消费的很多资金来自于国外。
Much of the financing for the consumer boom came from abroad.
消费的增长,部分的同价格波动相关。
理由之一就是消费的转变。
然而,这会立即导致我们消费的急剧下降。
However, this will take an immediate, drastic reduction of our consumption.
所以可供进一步消费的空间很充裕。
所以可供进一步消费的空间很充裕。
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