You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.

  • -- James Surowiecki 索罗斯基

你可能认为消费是一种相当被动的行为,但购买新产品和服务实际上是相当冒险的,至少如果你珍惜你的时间和金钱的话。

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The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures.

酒精饮料消费量的大幅增加很大程度上是战时开支增加购买力的直接结果。

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

事实上,我认为告诉你你是谁的最好的指南之一,我认为孩子们总是用它来达到这个目的,那就是幻想。

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.

但最重要的测试是带他们去旅行,看看你是否能忍受和他们呆在一起。

We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.

我们很快就离开了树林和灌木丛,来到了宽阔的大草原上。

The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.

公正、诚实地陈述事实;真理自有它的道理。

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

诗歌和消费是最讨人喜欢的疾病。