If we meet our goals, these standards will cut energy consumption by the equivalent of 10-20 coal-fired power plants by 2010.

如果我们达成我们的目标，到2010年时这些标准缩减的能源消耗将等同于十到二十个火力发电厂。

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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) made the discovery as it probed a report that milk from the offspring of a cloned cow had been put on sale for public consumption.

食品标准局(FSA)发现了这一现象，当时他们正在调查一项来自于克隆牛后代的奶制品进入公众消费市场的现象。

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And once they have the money, their standards of acceptable consumption might ratchet up so they actually need the gift to compensate.

而且一旦他们得到了钱，他们对于可接受的消费程度的标准就会提升，因此他们实际上就需要这一馈赠来满足它了。

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"You don't expect the income of the middle class in Africa to be the same as the United States, but it shouldn't be so overstretched that it may lose its meaning, " he adds, noting that the African middle class should define itself not only in relation to the continent but also in relation to international standards of consumption.

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Among its proposed powers will be the responsibility for monitoring the safety and standards of all food for human consumption.

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None of this should surprise environmentalists: Fuel-efficiency standards sparked the boom in the ultimate symbol of wasteful consumption, the sport utility vehicle.

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