随着中国开始进入大规模消费消费时代，消费主义对人们的价值观念和生活方式产生了日益深刻的影响。

Along with China's interring the large-scale consumption time, consumerism has exerted increasingly profound impact on people's value concept and life style.

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每年，就像某些神奇的发条装置一样，它能以越来越少的成本做越来越多的事情；由于大规模消费的存在，技术的单位边际成本渐趋于零。

And every year, like some sort of magic clockwork, it does more and more for less and less, bringing the marginal costs of technology in the units that we individuals consume closer to zero.

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在让消费者相信大规模的节省能源的牺牲是必要的，而现在电力公司发现电力备份比想象的要多。

Having convinced its customers that a massive energy-saving sacrifice was necessary, it has now found that it has more back-up than it thought.

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