This distortion tends to keep the retail price of water lower than it would otherwise be where water is scarce, encouraging consumption rather than conservation.

这种曲解只会有利于保持水的零售价格低于那些水源稀缺的地区的水的价格，这是鼓励消耗而非节约。

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Lopsided cultural consumption can be shown as two forms: distortion of mental consumption and deregulation of consumption behavior, both of which may affect crime directly and indirectly.

畸型文化消费表现为消费心理扭曲、消费行为反常，其对犯罪的影响有直接作用和间接作用两种模式。

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Mr Dasgupta argues that this distortion of trade amounts to a massive subsidy of rich-world consumption paid by the world's poorest people.

ECONOMIST: Local difficulties