在富裕和贫穷的国家，选择是一种奢侈品，一种美妙却难以得到的东西，而不是一种权利。
In rich and poor countries, choice is a luxury, something wonderful but hard to get, not a right.
政府的主要职责之一就是收入的重新分配，这样富裕的人能帮助贫穷的人摆脱贫困。
One of government's primary duties is the redistribution of income, so that the better off can help the worse off out of poverty.
富裕的西部和贫穷的东部之间的对立依然存在。
The division between the prosperous west and the impoverished east remains.
尽管如此，20%的富裕父母表示他们孩子的日程安排过于繁忙，而在贫穷父母中这一比例仅为8%。
Nonetheless, 20% of well-off parents say their children's schedules are too hectic, compared with 8% of poorer parents.
学费似乎并不是这一问题的解释：早先的学费增长并没有削减无论贫穷或富裕家庭的需求。
The tuition fee does not seem to be the explanation of the problem: previous hikes in tuition fees did not dent demand from rich or poor.
显然，较富裕的社会能够改善环境，而这些改善远远超出较贫穷的社会的能力范围。
Clearly, richer societies are able to provide environmental improvements which lie well beyond the reach of poorer communities.
但是学费似乎并不是这一问题的解释：早先的学费增长并没有削弱无论贫穷或富裕家庭的需求。
But cost does not seem to be the explanation: previous hikes in tuition fees did not dent demand from rich or poor.
人们往往从最贫穷的地区移徙到国内较富裕的城市，然后前往高收入国家。
People tend to move from the poorest regions to richer cities within a country, and then to high-income countries.
有益的公共政策：仅靠生理学不能解释寿命方面存在的众多差距，例如格拉斯哥富裕和贫穷居民区之间的27年差距。
Healthy Public Policies: Biology alone does not explain many gaps in longevity, such as the 27-year difference in Glasgow's rich and poor neighbourhoods.
虽然美国是个富裕的国家，但全国仍然存在着贫穷和严重的收入差别问题。
Despite its national wealth, poverty and serious income difference exist throughout the us.
这可能就是为什么富裕国家的家庭规模要小于贫穷国家的原因。
That may explain why families in rich countries are smaller than those in poor ones.
除非我们能在这方面采取措施，即使在富裕的西方，太多的这种经历将被，视为贫穷和荒废的过去。
But too much of that lengthened experience, even in the wealthy West, will be experience of poverty and neglect, unless we do something about it.
人类生物学里有一个自相矛盾的现象，那就是富裕的地方的孩子比贫穷地方的少。
ONE of the paradoxes of human biology is that the rich world has fewer children than the poor world.
最大的问题是关于公平的争论：那些富裕的国家导致的环境问题为什么要贫穷的国家负出代价去解决？
The most vocal arguments are about equity: the rich world caused the problem so why should the poor world pay to put it right?
你的家人会感到尴尬，你富裕的客人会感到受侮辱，你贫穷的客人会挨饿，因为他们做在首席的位子上会不好意思去吃他们的食物。
Your family would be embarrassed, your rich guests insulted and your poor guests hungry, for they would be too self-conscious at the head of the table to eat their fill".
如果遵从英国的擅自引导，富裕国家将把他们的碳污染量削减40%，贫穷国家将把他们的碳污染量削减60%。
The rich nations, if they follow the UK's presumed lead, will cut their carbon pollution by 40%. The poorer nations will cut their carbon pollution by 60%.
他撰写了许多书籍，包括最近出版的：《贫穷的终结》和《共同的财富》，在上述著作当中，他让富裕国家重新考虑它们对全球财富的基本假设。
He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, "the End of Poverty" and "Common wealth," in which he challenges wealthy nations to rethink their basic assumptions about global wealth.
如果这是真的，那就会得出一些怪异的结论：富裕的美国并不比贫穷的巴西幸福，那么那些生活在富裕国家的人为了变得更富有而更加努力地工作还有什么意义呢？
If this is true then some heretical conclusions follow: rich America is no happier than poorer Brazil, so what is the point in people who live in rich countries working harder to get ever richer?
孩子：在这里，没有阶层的区别，没有白人和黑人的差别，也没有贫穷和富裕的差别。
Child: There is no difference here between classes, nor white or black, if you have money or not.
虽然大体上富裕国家的银行和贫穷国家的银行彼此之间并不直接开展贷款和借款交易，但在数字上存在一种对称性，而这种对称性并不全是巧合。
Although by and large rich and poor countries' Banks are not lending to, or borrowing from, each other directly, there is a symmetry to the figures that is not entirely coincidental.
在1992年出生的孩子中，如果生活在富裕的社区，其不严重的症状被诊断出的百分比比贫穷社区高90%。
Among kids born in 1992, the odds of children with less-severe symptoms being diagnosed was 90 percent higher if they lived in a wealthy neighborhood.
以上图表表示，更加富裕，更先进的国家聚集在顶部，贫穷欠发达的国家聚集在底部。
The above chart shows this graphically, with wealthier, more advanced nations clustered at the top, and poorer, less developed nations clustered at the bottom.
在肯尼亚富裕的首都内罗毕，科罗戈乔贫民窟是最贫穷的地方之一。
The Korogocho slum is one of the poorest in Nairobi, Kenya's teeming capital.
这就应该解释了为什么较富裕国家的平均幸福度不会显得比较贫穷国家的高，因为在较富裕国家同龄人之间的富裕水平也有差别。
This was supposed to be the reason why average happiness did not appear to be higherin richer than poorer countries since one’s peers also have higher incomes inricher countries.
按比例计算的费用会用于手术费用，这样富裕的病人可以资助贫穷的病人。
A sliding scale of fees is used for operations so that richer customers subsidise poorer ones.
在英国，阶级和金钱长久以来对人们的生活有着巨大影响，富人家必有富裕的子女，而极度贫穷家庭的后代往往也无法摆脱贫困。
Class and money have always strongly affected how people do in life in Britain, with well-heeled families breeding affluent children just as the offspring of the desperately poor tend to remain poor.
富裕国家的食物浪费跟贫穷国家浪费的数量差不多，达到了产量的一半，但方式完全不同。
Rich countries waste about the same amount of food as poor ones, up to half of what is produced, but in quite different ways.
富裕国家的食物浪费跟贫穷国家浪费的数量差不多，达到了产量的一半，但方式完全不同。
Rich countries waste about the same amount of food as poor ones, up to half of what is produced, but in quite different ways.
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