当然这也带来了贫富差距的拉大，生活成本上涨过快而中产阶级的生活也压力越来越大，他们不得不搬到离市中心愈加遥远的地方去居住。

Yet there is also growing inequality, a steep rise in the cost of living and increasing pressure on middle-class families who are having to live ever farther away from city centres.

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“贫富差距正变得越来越大”，吴这位开出租已有12年之久的司机说道：“要是把我们过的日子同那些大款相比，我们会羞愧的无地自容”。

"The difference between rich and poor is getting so big," said Wu, a 32-year-old who started work as a cabbie 12 years ago. "if we compared our lives to the rich, we would die of heartbreak."

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贫富差别总是存在，在希腊化时期，虽然人们的平均生活水平的确提高了，贫富差距却越来越大。

There were always rich and poor, and in some ways the gap between them increased in the Hellenistic world, although the average standard of life certainly rose.

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