The nineteenth century didn't invent consumer culture.

消费文化不是十九世纪才有的。

They claim it's a celebration of the new urban consumer culture.

他们说这是向 新的城市消费文化致敬。

But that's probably not just an artifact of our polished consumer culture.

但这可能不仅仅是我们精致的消费文化的产物。

Today's consumer culture encourages us to 'spend, spend, spend', but it hasn't always been that way.

当今的消费文化鼓励我们" 花钱、花钱、花钱" ，但并不总是如此。

It makes a lot of appearances in popular and consumer culture, representing things like balance and inner peace.

它在流行和消费文化中经常出现，代表着平衡和内心的平静。

In the West, we have this wonderful, individualistic consumer culture where everything is pick-and-mix and customized.

在西方，我们拥有这种美妙的、个人主义的消费文化，在这种文化中，一切都是经过挑选和定制的。

This is also where our consumer culture comes in as we are constantly bombarded with the apparently necessary items for new adventures.

这也是我们的消费文化的来源，因为我们不断受到新冒险所需物品的轰炸。

But whereas few will disagree with the gist of his observations about the shortcomings of our modern, disposable, consumer culture, the analysis is rather superficial.

但是他的言论宗旨，即我们现代的、一次性的消费文化缺陷，虽然很少有人反对，可是依然很肤浅。

And the really bad news is that in today's consumer culture, when something breaks we usually throw it away and buy a new one, instead of trying to repair it.

而真正的坏消息是，在当今的消费文化中，当某件东西坏了，我们通常会扔掉它，然后买一个新的，而不是试图去修理它。

So in a way, slavery is a very early by-product of a consumer culture that revolves around the purchase of goods that bring us pleasure, but not sustenance.

因此，在某种程度上，奴隶制是一种消费文化的早期副产品， 这种文化围绕着购买能给我们带来快乐而非生计的商品。

For decades now, artists around the world have used zombies to shine a light on the social ills and anxieties of their moment — from consumer culture to the global lack of disaster preparedness.

几十年来，世界各地的艺术家都用僵尸来揭示他们当下的社会的弊病和焦虑——从消费文化到全球缺乏灾难准备的问题。