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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Some people even make their own wine at home, which is legal as long as it is for personal consumption only.

当然只要是供自己消费，自家酿酒还是合法的。

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At present, China ranks second in the world in petroleum consumption only next to America. Its dependence degree on oil import reached some 47% in 2006.

目前我国是仅次于美国的第二大石油消费国，2006年石油对外依存度已达47%左右。

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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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