At the very least, it has awoken us from our national fever dream of easy riches and bigger houses, and put a necessary end to an era of reckless personal spending.

至少，它让我们从轻易致富和拥有更大房子的狂热梦想中醒来，并为一个不计后果的个人消费时代画上了一个必然的句号。

They are a vital part of an array of data that we use to assess if we're doing well or doing badly, and that in turn shapes government policies and corporate budgets and personal spending decisions.

它们是一系列数据的重要组成部分，我们用这些数据来评估自己的表现是好是坏，进而影响政府政策、企业预算和个人支出决定。

Some analysts say it was because of his lavish personal spending.

一些分析家认为是因为他个人挥霍。

"Personal spending was unrelated to happiness," said the researchers.

研究人员发现：“个人消费与幸福无关。”

The U. s. is to release reports on personal spending and pending home sales.

美国将发布个人消费和待售房屋报告。

Personal spending did climb 0.4 percent in July, the biggest jump in four months.

而个人支出的确在7月上升了0.4%，这是四个月以来最大的提升幅度。

Energy just isn't the largest or most important item in our personal spending.

能源不是我们在日常花费中最大或者最重要的一笔开支。

Also, most entrepreneurs book their personal spending as company expense to avoid taxes.

同时，大多数企业家将他们的个人支出记账为企业费用，从而达到避税目的。

Since then, according to people close to Mr. Jackson, he has cut back his personal spending somewhat.

自从那时起，据杰克逊身边的人说，该歌星还是某种程度上减少了个人花费。

Personal spending has grown at a faster pace in each of the last three quarters. Things could certainly be worse.

这次增长很大程度上加速了个人消费在前三季度以越来越多的速度扩大着，而这必然是有更大危害的。

And while personal income rose by more than expected, climbing 0.4% in December, personal spending rose by 0.2%, less than economists expected.

12月的个人收入超过预期，上涨了0.4%，个人支出弱于预期下降了0.2%。

Japan's economy shrank by 0.3% in the second quarter, but this was better than had been expected, largely because personal spending fell by only 0.1%.

日本第二季度的经济紧缩达到0.3%，但这已经比预期要好很多了，其大部分原因是个人开支仅仅降低了0.1%。

Personal spending in the US is diverging into two distinct categories as strong growth at high-end stores contrasts with continuing difficulties for mass-market, low-price retailers.

美国个人支出正逐渐分化成两个截然不同的类别：高端店铺销售强劲增长，而大众市场低价零售商却始终步履维艰。

When the researchers surveyed another group of students, they found that most of the respondents predicted that personal spending would make them happier than spending the money on other people.

研究人员也曾对另一组大学生做过类似实验，得出的结果却正好相反，他们中大部分人觉得自己的钱自己花更容易让人接受。

It didn't take long for me to realize that I had to change my evil spending ways or cut up my card. So, I spent a lot of time learning everything I could about credit CARDS and personal finance.

没过都长时间我就意识到我不得不去改变自己不好的消费卡消费方式，所以我花了很长时间尽我所能的去学习所有关于消费卡和个人财政的知识。

We need to care about free time, personal time, family time, spending time, and wasting time.

我们需要在意空闲的时间，私人的时间，家庭时间，人们花费的时间以及浪费的时间。

I don't advise spending your day in front of the mirror, but a minimum of personal care does never hurt.

我可不是在建议你整天对镜自照哦，不过适度关心个人形象总是无伤大雅的吧。

They proposed curbing Social Security (pensions) payments, raising petrol (gasoline) taxes, slashing military spending and eliminating most tax breaks, while lowering personal and corporate rates.

他们提议控制社会保险金（养老金）发放，提高汽油（天然气）税率，大幅削减军备开支，取消大部分税收减免政策，同时降低个人和公司税率。

With incomes up slightly more than spending, the personal savings rate edged up to 5.8 percent of after-tax incomes in August. It was 5.7 percent in July.

收入增长略高于消费增长，个人税后收入的储蓄率上升至5.8%，7月份为5.7%。

Had George Osborne, the Conservative shadow chancellor of the exchequer, published his personal ideas for spending cuts, it would have been seen as proof of Tory divisions.

财政部在野党保守派大臣George Osborne已经就削减公共开支问题发表了个人观点，他的观点本应被视作托利党的代表。

Consumer spending rose 0.4% in July while personal income increased 0.2%. Read "Painfully slow comeback for consumers."

消费者支出于7月上升了0.4%，而个人收入则仅上升了0.2%。

The personal finance site Mint aggregates spending data from four million users.

个人理财网站Mint从数百万的用户统计出花销的数据。

Since personal debt is still high, people will want to save more, which will keep spending in check.

在个人负债仍旧很高的情况下，人们更倾向于选择储蓄，这只会使消费停滞不前。

Obviously, you'd put that at the top of your focus list, but you might also want to focus on spending time with family; learning Chinese; working on your blog and growing your personal network.

很显然，你会把找工作放在首要位置，但你可能也想花些时间陪陪家里人，学习一下汉语，写写博客，并且增加一些人际交往。

Yet the spending increase does nothing to increase personal buying in China or create demand for goods and services.

然而增加支出无助于提高中国的个人消费或创造商品和服务需求。