The difference in regular red-wine consumption has been narrowing, but no similar convergence in heart-disease rates has occurred.

在定期饮用红酒方面的差异正在缩小，但在心脏病发病率方面没有出现类似的趋同现象。

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But the increase in human consumption has been slowing for decades as population growth moderates.

但由于在过去数十年人口增加渐缓，人类消费的增幅也相对回落。

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Most grains are used as food either for people or for livestock. But the increase in human consumption has been slowing for decades as population growth moderates.

大多数谷物一般都用作人类食品或者家畜饲料，但数十年来随着人口增长趋于缓和，人类谷物消耗量的增长已逐渐减缓。

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"It is a strategy in which Asian and Pacific markets are open to our exports, and one in which prosperity around the world is no longer as dependent on American consumption and borrowing, but rather more on American innovation and products,"

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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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"It is a strategy in which Asian and Pacific markets are open to our exports, and one in which prosperity around the world is no longer as dependent on American consumption and borrowing, but rather more on American innovation and products."

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

It is hard to know how strongly would-be drug users are deterred by the law, but the decline in cannabis consumption since it was downgraded suggests not very.

ECONOMIST: Drug-strategy review

Mr Cavey calculates that the metals industry accounted for 40% of the growth in electricity consumption in 2001-07, but only 16% of the increase in industrial production.

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Amtrak sells alcohol in most of its dining and lounge cars but permits the consumption of private stock only in sleeper cars.

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