Just as the car industry can't afford to lag too far behind the consumer, it also can't afford to be too far ahead of him . 汽车业既不能落后于消费者的要求太远，也不能超前太多。
Consumers would get into trouble by treating their little plastic cards as if they were money in the bank . 消费者如果以为他手上的小小塑料卡片就等于是银行里的存款，那就会出问题。
Consumers were begining to look beyond the austere and the purely functional to consider more sporty and luxury models . 消费者开始不看朴素的代步车了，他们要考虑买跑车型的豪华车。
Consumers in another town are attracted by the size of the town and deterred by the distance to be travelled . 另一城镇的消费者既被这个城市的规模所吸引，同时又被两地间的距离所阻碍。
Shops cater for the do-it-yourself craze by offering consumers bits and pieces which they can assemble at home . 商店为了迎合“自己动手”的狂热心理，为消费者提供他们可以在家里组装的零件。
Maintaining low food prices for urban consumers is an important motivation for having pricing policies that discriminate against farmers . 对城市消费者保持粮食低价格是歧视农民的定价政策得以推行的重要促进因素。
The role of government is to spend less and tax people more in order to reduce consumer demand and thus curtail general price increases . 政府的作用就是减少支出，增加税收，以便减少消费者需求，制止价格的普遍上涨。
Rigid product standardization reduces the company's ability to change models in response to changing market needs or changing tastes . 在产品标准上过于刻板，会降低一个公司的适应市场需求和消费者爱好的变化而改变自己产品款式。
Although terminology varies, some six axioms are usually cited as being required for consumer theory based on indifference curve analysis . 尽管使用的名词不尽相同，通常认为，以无差异曲线分析为基础的消费者行为理论要求以六条公理为前提。
In microeconomic theory, the basic questions of what and how much to produce are assumed to be determined by the aggregate preferences of all consumers . 在微观经济理论中，不管生产什么和生产多少这一基本问题由全体消费者的总合偏好所决定。
