Many tech journalists throw around this idea of the iPad being a consumption only device and that creating on it is difficult and/or useless.

众多科技作家认为，iPad仅仅是消费设备，用它进行创作很难，或者根本没有作用。

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Nine studies assessed the impact of taxes on food consumption only, 5 on consumption and body weight, 4 on consumption and disease and 6 on body weight only.

9项、5项、4项和6项研究仅分别评估了税对粮食消费、对消费和体重、对消费和疾病、对体重的影响。

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In 2005, as the authors observe, real consumption per person in France was only 60% as high as the U.S., making it appear that Americans were economically much better off than the French on average.

在2005年，正如作者所观察到的，法国的人均实际消费仅为美国的60%，表面上美国人的平均经济状况似乎比法国人好得多。

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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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After that, my fellow Forbes contributor Jerry Bowyer makes the point that a consumption tax would penalize those who spent their lives paying income taxes and delaying consumption, only to enter their golden consumption years giving the federal government a big cut.

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Mr. Shin: The power consumption is only half of what is in the market.

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Growth has been driven by capital formation, consumption and only marginally by net exports.

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