The cut in VAT may hardly be noticed amid the flurry of retailers’ frantic price-slashing—and many of the benefits will be felt abroad as Britons buy more foreign goods.

在零售商们的骤然的疯狂降价浪潮中，增殖税的下调也许难以激起多少涟漪——甚至认为，这只会让外人受益，因为英国人会买更多的外国商品。

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“I don’t know why I felt so guilty; it was as if I was selling illegal goods, ” explains Wan confusedly.

万立群有些迷茫，他解释说：“我不知道为什么会觉得有罪恶感；就好像我是在销售非法商品。”

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I felt strange then. He used up his cash to pay goods! Why? He could have 1000 reasons to buy less goods!

我感觉很奇怪。他用完了他的现金去支付货款！为什么？我有1000个理由少买点货物吧！

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The report emerged, he says, from a focus group in which numerous participants claimed to have felt unsafe when buying goods or services through Craigslist.

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That was 1978, and Indonesia was flooded with all kinds of imported utility goods that Muhammad felt could easily be manufactured at home.

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Fears about not having the right brand of trainers or electronic gadgets for children meant that parents in the UK, particularly those on low incomes, felt they had to buy these goods, even if it meant getting into debt.

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