Competition and the vagaries of consumer taste have clipped the appeal of netbooks.

激烈的市场竞争以及消费者多变的口味已经消减了上网本的吸引力。

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Changes in consumer taste, they say, not menu labelling, are the reason for these changes.

餐馆声称提供的食物改变是因为顾客口味的变化而不是因为菜单标签。

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The company conducted 190,000 consumer taste tests that proved conclusively that New Coke tasted better than the original formula.

可口可乐公司对十九万消费者进行了口味测试，最后证明新可口可乐的味道优于原来的配方。

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The growth can be attributed to a change in consumer taste away from high calorie carbonated drinks and towards healthy and nutritious juice drinks.

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It might be getting more difficult to be a science consumer if your taste runs to the printed, papery word.

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What's more, Japan's shrivelling home market has made it more difficult for firms to rely on the fastidious local consumer as an arbiter of taste.

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