We should gradually reduce the rate of investment in relation to the rate of consumption.

要通过不断努力，逐步改变投资率偏高、消费率偏低的状况。

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Asian households' low rate of consumption and borrowing means that they have huge scope to spend more.

亚洲家庭的低消费和借贷率意味着还有巨大的增加支出的空间。

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Chinese soybean consumption depended on import in a great extent before entering WTO because that the growth rate of consumption was far greater than the growth rate of production.

但由于消费增长速度远远大于生产增长速度，加入WTO前，我国大豆消费就在很大程度上依赖进口。

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If you slow down the rate of consumption you will take in fewer calories.

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It all puts our present rate of consumption into frightening perspective.

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It is no coincidence that the Philippines has the highest rate of consumption (about 80% of GDP) in emerging Asia but one of the lowest growth rates.

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