其它经济数据呈现出的是更为复杂的局面：在工业生产持续大幅放缓的同时，消费支出增加，通胀得到缓和。
Other economic data presented a more mixed picture, with industrial production continuing to slow sharply while consumer spending increased and inflation eased.
没能促进国内的工业生产，反而促进进口新兴工业国家的廉价消费品。
Instead of reviving industrial production at home it was increasing imports of cheap consumer goods from newly industrialised countries.
正如多年前《新科学家》杂志的反馈专栏所写的那样，这些卖骗人玩意儿的商人们利用一直存在的，令人困惑的却毫无根据的传说来欺骗消费者。 说工业生产吸走了空气中大量的氧气。
As New Scientist's Feedback column has noted over the years, these snake-oil salesmen exploit a bafflingly persistent myth, that industrial activity has sucked much of the oxygen out of the air.
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