She was
consumed with guilt.
她深感内疚。
She was
consumed with curiosity.
她充满了好奇心。
Alcohol should be
consumed in moderation.
饮酒应适度。
A candle lights others and
consumes itself.
蜡烛照亮别人，牺牲了自己。
It is widely
consumed despite its ill reputation.
尽管它的名声很坏，但它被广泛地消费。
The hotel was quickly
consumed by fire.
那座旅馆很快被大火吞噬。
Don't let sadness
consume yourself.
别让悲伤毁了你自己。
All we need to do to achieve that is produce more,
consume less, or both.
为了达到目标，我们需要做的就是多生产，少消费，或者两者均衡。
More than 90 percent of 4,000 Chinese coffee shop consumers that were surveyed drink hot coffee weekly, while 64 percent consume iced coffee at least once a week.
在接受调查的4000名中国咖啡店消费者中，超过90%的人每周喝一次热咖啡，64%的人每周至少喝一次冰咖啡。
Nevertheless, Chinese residents consume relatively lower volumes of dairy products compared to some major dairy-consuming countries.
尽管如此，与一些主要乳制品消费国相比，中国居民的乳制品消费量相对较低。
Their strong and high-frequency willingness to consume is leading the global consumption trend and bringing notable changes to the world economy," she said.
他们强烈而高频的消费意愿正在引领全球消费趋势，并给世界经济带来显著变化，”她说。
"They consume less power, need easier maintenance work and provide more comfortable experience for local passengers," Chen said.
陈说：“它们耗电更少，需要更容易的维护工作，并为当地乘客提供更舒适的体验。”。
As consumers consume beers not only at KTVs but also at bars and lounges, and nightlife has moved more to open spaces, the company has invested in new nightlife channels.
随着消费者不仅在KTV消费啤酒，还在酒吧和休息室消费啤酒，夜生活也更多地转向开放空间，该公司投资了新的夜生活渠道。
Compared to 2021, heavy users－those who consume tea drinks at least several times a week－of RTD herbal tea increased by 12 percent, while heavy users of all RTD tea drinks also increased from 42 percent to 52 percent, which are the greatest changes across all segments.
与2021年相比，RTD凉茶的重度使用者（每周至少喝几次茶的人）增加了12%，而所有RTD茶饮料的重度使用者也从42%增加到52%，这是所有细分市场中变化最大的。
Moutai said as the ice cream contains around 2 percent alcohol, minors, pregnant women and people who are allergic to alcohol should not consume it.
茅台表示，由于这种冰淇淋的酒精含量约为2%，未成年人、孕妇和对酒精过敏的人不应食用。
With the COVID-19 pandemic unlocking people's desire to consume ice cream at home, the company aims to develop unique products that pamper the taste buds of the Chinese, said Benny Xu, ice cream general manager for Unilever North Asia.
联合利华北亚冰淇淋总经理Benny Xu表示，随着新冠肺炎疫情释放了人们在家消费冰淇淋的愿望，该公司旨在开发独特的产品，以满足中国人的味蕾。
Under the agreement, China can help consume excess hydropower from Laos between June and October when local hydropower resources are abundant, while China can also provide stable power supply to the northern parts of Laos during the dry season, said YNIC.
YNIC表示，根据该协议，中国可以在当地水电资源丰富的6月至10月期间帮助消耗老挝多余的水电，同时中国也可以在旱季为老挝北部地区提供稳定的电力供应。
Some 272 million monthly active users spent an average 82 minutes per day in the app to consume all sorts of videos.
约2.72亿月活跃用户平均每天在应用程序中花费82分钟来消费各种视频。
The memorandum of understanding includes a discussion to produce biochar and use it in blast furnaces in order to consume a carbon-neutral material based on biomass instead of fossil energy.
谅解备忘录包括讨论生产生物炭并将其用于高炉，以消耗基于生物质而非化石能源的碳中和材料。
BEST's data showed the top categories Southeast Asian residents consume are clothing, household products, electronic gadgets and food.
BEST的数据显示，东南亚居民消费的主要类别是服装、家居用品、电子产品和食品。
With monthly active users reaching 262 million in the first half of 2021, Ximalaya provides a wide variety of audio content through which people produce, share and consume knowledge, information and entertainment.
Luo believes the combination of solar power and hydrogen has broad applications, and the cost advantage of solar power producing hydrogen will be clearer, as hydrogen can better consume solar power, which is more susceptible to seasonality and sunshine availability.
"For instance, the propane dehydrogenation technology can help customers like those in the fossil energy industries use less raw materials and consequently consume less energy, thus enhancing production efficiency," Zhou said.
Since young people consume the same kind of entertaining content online in this digital age, collectible toys will become pretty much equally popular in different types of cities," Chen said.
IKEA will provide for local solutions, such as bundled framework agreements and Power Purchase Agreements, to purchase renewable electricity from the grid, thus enabling direct suppliers to consume 100 percent renewable electricity in their production.
Besides, Generation Z, or those born in the mid-to-late 1990s to the early 2000s, care not only about the brand reputation, but more about the function, ingredients, technology and safety of the products they consume, he said, adding Generation Z will be the core consumers to propel the development of functional cosmetics in China.
Consumer education is carried out so that consumers, especially the younger generations, can consume in more responsible ways and lead more sustainable lifestyles.
"More efforts are needed to encourage local companies to consume cloud computing as naturally as utilities like electricity.
Yan Han, chairperson for international business at Topline Consulting Group, said: "Technological advancements have been changing the way people consume content and disrupting the traditional methods.
It has the ability to completely consume coal or natural gas as a backup feedstock.
A earlier report pointed out that Chinese people consume around 2 trillion yuan of snack food every year following the country's booming internet wave accelerating the growth.
"Also, most of them are AI pioneers in China that consume tons of chips from US companies including Nvidia Corp, Intel Corp and others.
As new energy vehicle sales have been booming, global consumption of cobalt, a key element in the batteries of such vehicles, is estimated to exceed 30,000 tons in 2020, and China would consume about 45 percent of the metal, Lu Rixin, an analyst with Orient Securities, said in a research note.
In addition, urbanization, digitalization and people's increasing disposable income are changing the way people live and consume.
Craps stressed that the rise of e-commerce and digital technologies have drastically transformed the way people in China consume and purchase products.
According to the IMO, the global shipping industry is estimated to consume around 300 million tons of marine fuel oil in 2020.
It has become vital to develop new growth models that consume fewer resources.
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In terms of price, our product is affordable enough to become a daily product most people consume.
There is nothing illegal or wrong with using powder, but no one today would want to consume so much powder.
"Chinese now consume five times more milk tea than coffee.
Per capita consumption of seafood in China is mind-boggling, as the Chinese people consume an estimate of only 40 kilograms of seafood per person every year, he said.
Nearly half of Chinese people aged between 20 and 25 seldom consume tea and only 9.8 percent of them sip tea every day, according to a report by Qinhuangdao Tea Culture Institute.
China's push to further expand production and consumption of bioethanol this year in order to clean up the environment, while seeking more channels to consume corn and grain stockpiles, has created a huge biofuel market that is tempting global chemical companies.
Other types of conventional blowers, which are low on technology but consume high power, account for a major part of the segment.
Compared to other VLOCs, the carrier can consume 18.8 percent less energy, by having an extra tank for liquefied gas as fuel.
Currently, people and businesses can pay much lower prices if they consume electricity at off-peak instead of at peak demand times.
"Renewable energy is often generated in western and northern regions, which are far from the cities and industrial centers in China's central and eastern provinces that consume it," Han said.
Mars' M&M's－which is considered a fun way to consume chocolate－is re-opening its flagship store in Shanghai later this year after a major refurbishment.
Tech-savvy, new generation of consumers are not going to consume what they are told to.
Jinri Toutiao, a leading news aggregator app, has trained sights on the BRICS economies to extend its artificial intelligence-backed business as more people embrace mobile gadgets to receive information and consume content, a company executive said.
In the worst case scenarios, for example, if telephone, electricity or internet in Houston were completely shut down, the company had a plan to move key members and their family to other cities to consume working immediately, said Zhang.
"The only answer is that the growing process must be seen by the consumers, which means, vegetables must be grown where people consume them.
With a number of food safety scandals stirring public outcry, Chinese are willing to pay a higher price to ensure the quality of food they consume, giving companies like AB Agri opportunities to expand their businesses.
"In other areas, millennials consume differently and their preferences, like online shopping, are different－and satisfying their demands is a challenge for Canon, Ozawa said.
Such reductions are considered essential for easing the debt servicing costs for businesses and households, thus bolstering their willingness to invest and consume.
The willingness to consume can be insatiable, but the same thing cannot be said of investment.
This indicates a steady increase in residents' income, producing favorable effects in terms of boosting people's capacity and willingness to consume.
Xi also called on policymakers to form a complete domestic demand system as soon as possible, and establish and improve a long-term mechanism for expanding residents' consumption, so that residents can consume with a stable income, dare to consume without worries and are willing to consume due to the excellent consumption environment and strong sense of gain.
Noting that consumption has shown a trend of recovery this year, Fu Linghui, spokesperson of the NBS, said that the willingness of residents to consume needs to be further elevated.
As many as 58.26 percent of respondents chose luxury goods when asked "which areas of goods or services do you consume? "
The number is similar to those who chose to consume alcohol and baby products, which were 57.49 and 58.42 percent, respectively.
People are reluctant to consume, partly due to concerns over the sustainability of the future social security and medical insurance systems.
Therefore, people's motivation for precautionary savings can be alleviated and their willingness to consume durable goods and discretionary products will be higher.
The government should step up efforts to stabilize employment, further reduce taxes and fees and increase financial support to increase consumer income, which will enhance their willingness to consume," Fu said.
James Macdonald, head and senior director of Savills China research, said people's willingness to consume and the number of tourists are expected to gradually recover, and traditional business areas, including Nanjing East Road, are expected to benefit from the recovery of the tourism sector.
He said the country will continuously expand employment and increase the household incomes, especially take-home pay levels of low-and middle-income earners with a high marginal propensity to consume.
But the willingness to consume throughout this year has increased significantly, which the report said is largely due to consumers' recovering expectations regarding personal incomes this year, as it found that expectations for take-home pay growth in 2023 averaged around 8 percent, up from 6.7 percent recorded in the same period of last year and well above the forecast of 3.0 percent in July 2022.
"Households had saved significantly more during this period and were now waiting to be able to consume more again.
Consumption is the ballast stone of the economy, playing fundamental role in economic growth, especially in 2023 when the global economic recession holds a high probability and external demand further shrinks, said Wen Bin, chief economist at China Minsheng Banking Corp. "Therefore, in order to restore consumption, it is necessary to increase the income of residents, especially the income of low- and middle-income residents who have a high propensity to consume but have been greatly affected by the pandemic.
That is, their marginal propensity to consume is higher than that of the high-income group.
Wang Jun, director of the China Chief Economist Forum, said the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions in China will promote consumption recovery, which will also be driven by other factors like excessive savings and pent-up willingness to consume during the pandemic over the last three years.
In order to better promote the development of the real economy, the government should face up to this phenomenon, take measures to guide rational expectations for improvement of household incomes, and increase people's willingness and capacity to consume and invest, Dong said.
Compared with traditional ship-type FPSO units, cylindrical ones consume less steel and enjoy better stability to operate in adverse offshore conditions.
Second, efforts should be made to increase the public's marginal propensity to consume by cutting interest rates.
The best way to increase the marginal propensity to consume in the short term is, in fact, by reducing interest rates, which frees up credit.
By raising incomes through distribution of money and lowering of interest rates, it is possible to increase the general public's marginal propensity to consume.
Therefore, to increase the public's marginal propensity to consume and to stabilize consumption, we should cut interest rates.
Chinese residents' willingness to save maintained strong momentum with 58.1 percent of those surveyed expressing a tendency to save more and 22.8 percent expressing a willingness to consume more.
During the pandemic, the unemployment rate will rise, thus leading to a decline in household consumption capacity and willingness to consume, especially in terms of durable goods," said Lu at the Tsinghua PBCSF Chief Economists Forum on Saturday.
The slow recovery of consumption is related to the weakening of a willingness to consume, said Sheng Songcheng, adjunct professor of economics and finance at the China Europe International Business School and former director of the People's Bank of China's statistics and analysis department.
"Also, such tax breaks will increase the disposable income of households, and boost their willingness to consume," she said.
Although the decline in the growth rate is largely a short-term result caused by sporadic outbreaks of COVID-19, there may be some long-term factors behind the slowdown in consumption growth, such as a lower propensity to consume.
Income levels, consumption rates and propensity to consume in developed economies are higher than that in China, and we can enhance income distribution policies to stimulate consumption expansion among middle-income groups and increase the public service expenditure for the over 300 million-strong floating population in cities, thereby promoting steady and long-term consumption growth.
And housing that necessitates high spending also ends up reducing people's propensity to consume.
In other words, recent regulatory measures can potentially bolster consumption as they are targeted at the three factors that determine an economy's aggregate consumption: population, per capita income and propensity to consume, which measures the fraction of spent income.
Basic economics shows that lower-income groups have higher marginal propensity to consume, which means they are more willing to spend when their income rises than higher-income groups, highlighting the need for reducing income inequality.
In the future, it is highly likely major electricity user enterprises will also be included in the trading system, since electricity consumption and carbon emissions are positively correlated to a certain extent (for example, for some internet e-commerce companies, carbon emissions mainly come from data centers, and computers in data centers consume large amount of electricity).
Strict control of electricity prices and low electricity price levels will also make industries and enterprises that consume large amount of electricity less motivated to save energy or reduce electricity consumption.
And they are also willing to consume products recommended by key opinion leaders or KOLs on social media platforms.
For instance, a capital city may attract all people in the province to consume, especially when buying cars, driving local per capita retail sales figure.
"Narrowing the income gap will make relatively low-income households more willing to consume," Li said.
This phase of urbanization, Christianson added, will create "bigger and faster and more livable cities, and people are going to consume more.
The energy sector is estimated to consume 43.3 million tons of steel in 2023, with a year-on-year growth of 5.6 percent.
"People come here not only to consume coffee, but also to 'pay' for the green ecology of Qinling and the pastoral environment.
But for SMEs, they would consider whether it is cost-effective to consume a large amount of computing power.
Falling into the liquidity trap means that no matter how a country's central bank cuts interest rates, residents are not willing to consume, and companies are not willing to invest.
Despite this, Chinese residents consume relatively lower volumes of dairy products compared to some major dairy-consuming countries.
Zhou Yu, a resident in Guangxi's Nanning, said steaks served with a plate of pasta and broccoli are now a common main dish for her family's supper, adding that recently, imported beef is much cheaper than before, allowing her family to consume beef more frequently.
Lin Guolong, director of Shanghai Maritime University's Logistics Research Center, said the global shipbuilding industry plans to construct larger, more intelligent and specialized vessels that consume less energy and emit less pollution.
The power sector will consume 5 million tons of hydrogen in 2050, primarily for backup capacity.
Chinese adults have been recommended to consume 500 grams of milk or equivalent dairy products daily, according to the latest Chinese Dietary Guidelines.
However, Chinese residents consume relatively low volumes of dairy products compared with some major dairy-consuming countries, and China's annual dairy consumption volume is less than one-third of the global average, according to the China Dairy Industry Association.
Founded in 2012, Ximalaya provides a wide variety of audio content through which people produce, share and consume knowledge, information and entertainment.
"Enterprises, however, consume more jam.
According to research firm iiMedia Research, the value of China's new-style tea market is estimated to reach 374.93 billion yuan ($55 billion) in 2025, with 26.2 percent of consumers in 2022 expecting to consume more new tea beverages in the future.
For example, the Chinese people on average consume 30 grams of almonds per year, much lower than the global average of 170 grams, 260 grams in Japan, and 1,070 grams in the US, the report added.
"According to Luo, the so-called interest in e-commerce livestreaming means that when people do not have a clear willingness to consume, the algorithm of the system can make relatively high-level intelligent recommendations, which leads to some consumption.