1·Chinese consumers now contribute almost as much as America's to global consumer spending growth, while Chinese investment has outstripped the US since 2001.
目前，中国消费者对于全球消费支出增长的贡献几乎与美国相当，而自2001年以来，中国的投资规模一直领先于美国。
2·And for the purposes of investment decisions, the second group didn't matter; tracking its spending habits or worrying over its savings rate was a waste of time.
投资决策的目的，第二种人并不关心。调查他们的消费习惯，关心他们的储蓄率根本就是浪费时间。
3·Given the scale of the spending, some money is sure to have been wasted, but by and large, investment in roads, railways and the electricity grid will help China sustain its growth in the years ahead.
在如此大规模的支出背景下，一些钱肯定是打水漂了，但是总的来说，大兴道路，铁路和电网会对中国未来数年的持续增长起到帮助。
4·But the big problem with consumer spending is that if you buy a product made outside the U. S., it doesn't encourage domestic investment. And that's what we really need.
但是消费开销的大问题是，如果你买一个在美国外生产的产品，并不能支持我们真正想要的国内的资本。
5·Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, finds that Americans spend 28% of their media time online, yet only 13% of total AD spending is devoted to the Internet.
投行摩根·斯坦利发现，美国人把28%的媒体使用时间花在了互联网上，但该领域对应的广告预算却只有13%。
6·Chart 2 plots China's official growth rate against an alternative estimate calculated by Dragonomics from expenditure data (ie, investment, household spending and exports).
表2将中国官方提供的增长数据同由咨询公司龙州经讯通过消费数据测算出的结果进行了对比。
7·Stephen King and Ian Morris of HSBC point out that growth in consumer spending, total investment and exports in this cycle has been correspondingly feeble.
HSBC的Stephen King和Ian Morris指出，此循环周期中的居民消费增长、总投资额及输出额都相对比较衰弱。
8·Somewhat surprisingly, there was a modest slowdown in 2014, with investment in the first half lower than a year earlier, largely due to a fall in spending on energy projects.
有点令人惊讶的是，中国2014年投资额缓慢减小，上半年的投资额比上一年少，这主要是由于能源项目上的花费减小了。
9·Any tightening in corporate spending at home would be a problem for Germany as weak rates of business investment are already holding back the recovery.
对于德国来说，如果企业缩减国内支出将会成为一个问题，商业投资率低迷已阻碍了德国经济复苏。
10·We are spending billions to increase capacity on the Tube by 30 percent, in what is the biggest investment seen in decades.
我们将投入数十亿英镑来提高地铁三成容量，这是过去几十年来所投入的最大一笔资金。