"Ted Kennedy's life's work was not to champion the causes of those with wealth or power or special connections.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Wealth property he tells us exists for the sake of virtue not virtue for the sake of wealth.

他告诉我们，财富，财产,是为了德行而存在,并非德行为了财富而存在。

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In addition Aristotle tells us such a person will possess beautiful but useless things suggesting the possession not only of wealth but of a kind of cultivated aesthetic sense.

此外，亚里士多德告诉我们,这类的人还将会拥有一些美丽,但无用的东西,不只拥有财富,还有一种经教化的美感。

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Human rights activists said the benefits of Angola's vast oil and diamond wealth is not being equitably distributed.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

It's important--that's one reason why we want policies that encourage equality of incomes-- not necessarily equality, but reasonable equality-- because the people with very low wealth have a very high marginal utility of income and people with very high wealth have very little.

这非常重要,我们需要通过政策,来引导收入公平的一个原因就是这个,不是绝对的平等,是相对的平等,因为那些低收入的人群,对收出的边际效应相当的高,而高收入人群的则小得多

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Opposition parties had accused his family of amassing wealth illegally, but that did not prevent voters from returning him to power this year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

Yet despite his awareness of the importance of commerce and the importance of property the aim of the city he tells us is not wealth is not the production of wealth.

他虽然注意到,商业与财产的重要性,但城市存在的主要目的,如他说到,并非财富,并非创造财富。

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