Vast numbers of South Africans continue to live in grinding poverty as the rich get ever richer.
很多南非人民依然饱受贫困的折磨(一贫如洗),而与此同时,富人却日进斗金。
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?
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?
I doubt I'll ever get rich, but I get job satisfaction.
我不确定我将来能不能发财,但我获得了工作满足感。
The lives of children from rich and poor American families look more different than ever before.
美国贫富家庭中孩子们生活的差距,看似比以往任何时候都更大。
Other data point in a similar direction: rich economies spend more than ever on research, but the number of new patents has plateaued.
另有一些数据指向一个相近的方向:富裕经济体用于研究的开支比以往任何时候都多,但是新专利的数量却比较平稳。
Rich, have I ever told you that you're my hero?
我是否曾经告诉你,你是我的英雄?
Lawyers and experts on Internet policy say no court case has ever turned on the presence or absence of such an automatic E-mail footer in America, the most litigious of rich countries.
互联网政策方面的律师和专家们表示,富裕国家中最爱诉讼的美国,也还没有哪个诉案是由这种自动的电邮页脚的存在与否引起的。
Thanks to its evocative setting, rich themes and masterly prose, the great Gatsby has secured its standing as a reading-list staple as well as one of the greatest American novels ever written.
由于《了不起的盖茨比》有唤起感情的场景、丰富有趣的主题、精湛的文笔,已确定其在必读书单中的地位以及美国最伟大的小说之一。
But the rich white tourists there, who sip coffee at open-air cafes while planning "culture Tours" to aboriginal communities, ignore the stricken kids as their lives spiral ever-downwards.
但是在露天咖啡厅喝咖啡的富有白人游客正在规划到原住民社区的“文化之旅”,却忽视青少年饱受折磨成螺旋式不断下降的生命。
As she is not rich, the chances that she will ever be able to afford such purchases are remote; but she is never sufficiently strong-minded to be able to stop the practice.
由于她并不富裕,她买得起这些服装的可能性十分渺茫。但她又缺乏足够坚强的意志把这一收集活动停下来。
Ever wonder how rich folks trade?
是否一直想知道富人怎样交易?
India's revered cricketers, who were never so rich and pampered, are doing consistently better than they have ever done before.
印度备受尊崇的板球运动员从来没有像现在这般富有,集万千宠爱于一身。如今他们的表现要比以前好得多,而且能做到始终如一。
Modern Web browsers and a mature Document Object Model (DOM) make it easier than ever to create rich applications for users.
现代Web浏览器和成熟的DocumentObjectModel (DOM)使为用户创建功能丰富的应用程序比以往任何时候都要容易。
More and more developers are using dynamic languages, more reusable assets are available than ever before, and new Web 2.0 technologies and rich clients are redefining the user experience.
越来越多的开发人员在使用动态语言,有更多可重用资产可供使用,新的Web 2.0技术和富客户端在不断改进用户体验。
But I'm not part of the truly rich for whom taxes are optional, and for whom ever-increasing property prices are a source of entrenching their wealth.
但我不属于那些真正的富人,对他们来说税金是可选择的(随意的),不断增长的房地产价格是他们巩固财富的源泉之一。
Foods are also great: berries, rich desserts, freshly made bread, the best... soup... ever, or whatever it is that you love.
有食物也非常的棒。蓝莓、丰盛的甜点、新鲜出炉的面包、最好的汤,或者你喜爱的任何吃的。
Barely an hour later, afternoon tea was served in my cabin - a pot of tea, cakes, and possibly the most perfect curry puff I have ever tasted, with its spicy, rich filling and flaky, moreish pastry.
午餐过后不到一个小时,下午茶就送进我的车厢了——一壶茶、蛋糕和我尝到过的最完美的咖喱泡芙和美味而馅料充足的薄饼,令人回味无穷。
Ever since Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA in 1943, the company has tried to allow “people with limited means to furnish their houses like rich people”.
自从英格瓦坎普拉德在 1943 年创办宜家以来,公司就一直致力于让“条件有限的人能够像有钱人一样布置自己的家”。
However, there are amphibious penguins and seals and a rich Marine life, ranging from the minute organisms called plankton to the biggest creature the world has ever known, the blue whale.
然而,这里却有着两栖的企鹅和海豹以及丰富的海洋生命—包括从被称为浮游生物的微小生物,直到迄今所知世界上最大的动物蓝鲸。
Have you ever wondered how the rich got their wealth and then kept it growing?
你是否想过富人们是怎样赚得他们的财富并且让财富保持增长?
A: The outlook is not completely bleak, but it is not an industry where anyone will ever get rich.
答:行业的前景并非完全黯淡,但这也不是任何人都能够致富的行业。
Worse, economic engines in the rich world are running ever slower as countries exhaust easy sources of rapid growth.
更糟的是,随着富裕国家用尽快速增长的有利条件,它们的经济引擎转得越来越慢。
In response, the usual suspects have rolled out some familiar arguments: the data are flawed (they aren't); the rich are an ever-changing group (not so); and so on.
作为回应,通常持怀疑观点的人推出了一些熟悉的论点:数据缺陷(其实数据没有缺陷);富人阶层经常变化(其实不是这回事)等等。
Alex Hoffmann is an American physicist who, like many in the past decade, has grown rich by turning away from pure scientific research to create ever more arcane financial instruments.
艾利克斯·霍夫曼是美国的一个物理学家,他跟过去这十年里的很多人一样,放弃了纯粹的科学研究,转而去创造更多神秘的金融工具。
Silverman describes the Swiss private collector as a very rich man who has promised to buy him "lunch and dinner and caviar for the rest of my life if it ever does get sold."
西尔弗曼说那位瑞士私人收藏家非常富有,他还向西尔弗曼承诺,如果《午餐,晚餐和鱼子酱》会拍卖的话,他将帮忙买下。
ONE consequence of the deepest recession since the Depression has been the biggest peacetime build-up of public debt the rich world has ever seen.
这次自大萧条以来最严重的衰退导致的其中一个后果是,累积了和平时期最大的公共债务,而这是发达国家从未有过的。
Since there's an ever-looming possibility that I won't die rich, I toy very seriously with the idea of leaving the unsold rights to my wife and daughter as a kind of insurance policy.
鉴于我已经是快要走的人了,而且我并不会留下很多遗产,经过认真的考虑,我决定把那些还没有发表的文章的继承权给我的妻子和女儿作为某种形式上的保障。
He writes, the financial services industry has claimed an ever-growing share of the nation's income over the past generation, making the people who run the industry incredibly rich.
他写道:“在过去的一代里,金融产业在全国的收入比重越来越大,那些从事此行业的人们难以置信的富有。”
Britain's richest people have experienced the biggest-ever rise in their wealth, according to the Sunday Times rich List.
根据《星期日泰晤士报》的财富排行榜,英国最富有的人们经历了他们的财富有史以来最大的增长。
Unlike in rich countries such as the United States, where more men have tended to lose their jobs compared to women, the crisis in Africa is leaving women with ever fewer job choices.
在美国等发达国家,失业男性人数高于女性。与这些国家不同,危机给非洲国家妇女留下的就业机会空前减少。
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