The consumer society is what you need for the Industrial Revolution to have a point.

工业革命在一个消费者导向社会进行才有实际意义。

This self-elected deprivation was a way into the nastier side of the consumer society.

这种自我剥夺是进入这个消费社会更可憎的一面的一种途径。

The whole advertising industry and consumer society would collapse if people became enlightened and no longer sought to find their identity through things.

如果人们变得开明并且不再试图通过事物来寻找自己的身份，整个广告业和消费社会就会崩溃。

For a poor rural person, such a high-energy city -- with an enticing consumer society and office towers that seem to promise job opportunities -- has a strong appeal.

对于一个贫穷的农村人来说，这样一个充满活力的城市——拥有诱人的消费社会和似乎承诺提供就业机会的办公大楼——具有强大的吸引力。

This is a painting that is a reflection, in more than just one sense, of a Paris that is both real and unreal, a consumer society in which everything is for sale, a city that is a constructed reality that doesn't bear close scrutiny.

这幅画不仅从画面上 而且在内涵上 反映了亦真亦幻的巴黎 一个万物皆为商品的消费社会 一座由经不起仔细审视的现实 构建而成的城市。