FOLLIOTT. Yes, sir; there are two great classes of men: those who produce much and consume little; and those who consume much and produce nothing. The fruges consumere nati have the best of it. Eh, Captain! You remember the characteristics of a great man according to Aristophanes: [Greek text]. Well, Captain, even in these tight-laced days, the obscurity of a learned language allows a little pleasantry.英文原著 · 《Crotchet Castle》
Tables laden with rolls and dishes of food. Other tables surrounded with chairs are ready for the consumers.英文原著 · 《Cyrano de Bergerac》
As long as the sailors of the United States retain these inspiriting advantages, and the practical superiority which they derive from them, they will not only continue to supply the wants of the producers and consumers of their own country, but they will tend more and more to become, like the English, the factors of all other peoples. *k This prediction has already begun to be realized; we perceive that the American traders are introducing themselves as intermediate agents in the commerce of several European nations; *l and America will offer a still wider field to their enterprise.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
At the end of the book were German proverbs and "Idiomatic Phrases," by which latter would appear to be meant in all languages, "phrases for the use of idiots": --"A sparrow in the hand is better than a pigeon on the roof."--"Time brings roses."--"The eagle does not catch flies."--"One should not buy a cat in a sack,"--as if there were a large class of consumers who habitually did purchase their cats in that way, thus enabling unscrupulous dealers to palm off upon them an inferior cat, and whom it was accordingly necessary to advise against the custom.英文原著 · 《Diary of a Pilgrimage》
"Look on page 117," says I, "at the remedy for suffocation by smoke or gas. Flaxseed in the outer corner of the eye, it says. I don't know whether it works as a smoke consumer or whether it hikes the compound gastro-hippopotamus nerve into action, but Herkimer says it, and he was called to the case first. If you want to make it a consultation, there's no objection."英文原著 · 《Heart of the West》
"Mame blushed. I didn't know what to think about her. My hopes raised some that perhaps my attentions had palliated man's awful crime of visibly introducing nourishment into his system. She talked some about the stars, referring to them with respect and politeness, and I drivelled a quantity about united hearts, homes made bright by true affection, and the Kindler. Mame listened without scorn, and I says to myself, 'Jeff, old man, you're removing the hoodoo that has clung to the consumer of victuals; you're setting your heel upon the serpent that lurks in the gravy bowl.'英文原著 · 《Heart of the West》
When you start eliminating consumers, you start eliminating jobs, which eliminates consumers, which eliminates jobs,美剧 · 《The News Room》
"Hutch Bailey has betrayed the consumer and his own legacy by tampering with the recipe"?美剧 · 《Billions》
I have a perfect score with Consumer Reports.美剧 · 《Billions》
This company has real consumer potential-- Yet this bank is invested in this because the chairman's son was in the Spee with the Chief Tech Officer.美剧 · 《Billions》