The increase is likely to hit the pocketbooks of consumers.

提价可能会砸到消费者的钱袋子。

Many foreign goods are too expensive for American pocketbooks.

许多外国货都太贵，与一般美国人的财力不符。

People feel pinched in their pocketbooks and insecure about their futures.

人们感到钱袋紧缩，对未来缺少安全感。

Consumers, in the meantime, are grading pearls with their pocketbooks.

与此同时，消费者们则根据各自的财力购买珍珠，将其按级分类。

We're all aware of the need to conserve water, both for our pocketbooks and for the environment.

我们都知道，不管是对自己的钱包还是对环境来说，节约用水都是很重要的。

Helping people understand false claims in ads may help them tighten their pocketbooks and avoid debt.

帮助人们明白广告中虚假的说法可能会帮助他们扣紧钱夹，避免债务。

You thought I was going to say but, didn't you? You thought I was going to say, but I didn't snatch people's pocketbooks.

你以为我是要说‘但是’，对吗？你以为我是要说，‘但是我没抢人家钱包’。

And if Beijing's belligerence continues, Americans should vote with their pocketbooks and buy products made in other countries.

如果北京的好战性继续下去的话，美国就应该对他们的钱包和购买中国制造的产品进行投票了。

As these places are now discovering, it is not just unfortunate property-owners who feel the reverberations of such monumental busts, nor are their effects confined to pocketbooks.

这些地方的人们现在发现，不幸的房产所有者深受破产之痛，已经不限于经济利益。

That means a new reason for Britons to worry about the dilution of their culture, a new burden on parents' pocketbooks, and new businesses selling prom essentials such as tuxedos and corsages.

这意味着英国人又增加了一条担心本土文化被冲淡的理由，而家长们的钱包又多了一层负担，售卖男士晚礼服、女士花束等舞会必备品的新商店也纷纷冒出来了。

Naming a gatekeeper to the pocketbooks of investors - Business owners may soon have an easier time raising capital, but that doesn't mean they get to solicit capital from people they don't know.

——投资者资金保护：企业的所有者可能很快发现筹集资金变得容易，但这并不意味着他们可以从陌生的投资人手中拉资金。

Naming a gatekeeper to the pocketbooks of investors - Business owners may soon have an easier time raising capital, but that doesn't mean they get to solicit capital from people they don't know.

投资者资金保护：企业的所有者可能很快发现筹集资金变得容易，但这并不意味着他们可以从陌生的投资人手中拉资金。