With more income to throw around, people started spending more on services movies and travel, mortgages to buy houses, insurance to protect those houses, the occasional decadent weekend at a luxury hotel.

人们开始把更多钱花在接受服务方面看电彩、旅游、抵押 贷款买房、为房、偶尔到豪饭店度个周末。

So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate roadhouse next door.

因此我最初以为他是一位相当重要人物印象，已经渐渐消失，他只不过是隔壁一家豪郊外饭店老板。