The hum of the spinning blades is the sound of China going green as it seeks to address the growing energy demands of its rapidly modernizing consumer society and fast-paced industrialization.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

This is a consumer society; in the 1950s it was already very much so.

这是一个消费者的社会，在50年代就几乎是这样了。

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