In that society, as in virtually all others, pots quickly went beyond their functional purpose to become objects of desire and display.

在那个社会里，几乎像其他社会一样，陶器很快就超越了其最初的功能性价值，变成一种人类爱好与展示的物品。

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Take one of their principal objects of desire, two-wheel scooters. Last year about 8m were sold in Indonesia, dwarfing sales in the rest of South-East Asia (1.7m in Thailand, for instance).

以他们首要追求的目标物之一双轮摩托车为例，去年印尼大约卖了800万辆，使东南亚其他国家的销量相形见绌(如泰国是170万辆)。

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For some they are objects of desire, for others simply protection for the sole.

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That moment will come when all the auguries are right--when shareholders are happy with growing share prices and the objects of desire are still bargains.

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Those icons compare with products from Fiat, Armani, and Alessi, which are conceived as signifiers and aspirational objects of desire, in terms of the way they look.

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