Moet Hennessy has 47% of the market for cognac, and well-off Chinese have quite a taste for the stuff.

酩悦轩尼诗占干邑市场的47%，富裕的中国人对这东西相当有品位。

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If an afterlife existed, Mandy figured that for Linda it would be more of the same-cappuccinos, Chinese, films at Lincoln Center. You could do that stuff dead.

如果有来生，曼迪想琳达应该会过同样的生活——卡布·奇诺，中文，林肯中心的电影，你都可以做这些到死。

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The Chinese first used the stuff in weapons--including rockets and cannon--about 600 years later.

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But it also makes the people making the stuff better off: see that 6 times rise in Chinese wages in only 13 years.

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That means Americans are consuming about six times as much stuff per person as the Chinese are.

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