Perhaps material goods just can't make us happy?
或许单单的物质享受并不能真的让我们感到幸福；
The fact is that people like piling up material goods.
事实是，人们就爱添置物质用品。
Focus more on friends and family, less on material goods.
更关注朋友和家庭，而非物质财富。
Actually, we cannot make a clear separation of affection and material goods.
事实上，我们无法清楚地将感情与物质区分开来。
Prices for material goods tend toward equilibrium, depending on supply and demand.
物质商品的价格倾向于达到均衡点，该价格依供求状况而定。
Though it may be possible to measure the value of material goods in terms of money.
虽然物质产品的价值可以用金钱来衡量。
It's better to give than to receive — and that applies to more than material goods.
给予永远比获得更有价值，这同样适用于非物质层面。
Thephysiocrats, too, stressed material goods, and agriculture was the mainmaterial product.
重农主义者也强调了物质商品，而农业是当时主要的物质产出。
The physiocrats, too, stressed material goods, and agriculture was the main material product.
重农主义者也强调了物质商品，而农业是当时主要的物质产出。
"Actually, we cannot make a clear separation of affection and material goods," she continued.
事实上，我们无法清楚地将感情与物质区分开来。
"The more we seek satisfactions in material goods, the less we find them there," Ryan says.
“我们越是追求物质上的满足感，反而得到的更少，”瑞恩说。
The purpose of our life is not to amass riches and material goods, although that can be our focus.
我们生命的目的不在累积财富和物质，虽然这也可能是我们的焦点。
Have an experience instead of giving material goods: do something fun together, go to the beach or a lake.
试试用一次经历代替物质礼物：一起做些开心的事，比如去海边或者湖边游玩。
systems of inheritance and land rights, affecting the distribution of power and material goods within families;
继承体系和土地权，这会影响到家庭内部的权力和物质分配；
The simple answer is that we'd all produce less, which would mean more time to relax and fewer material goods to enjoy.
简单的答案是：我们的产出会减少，这意味着我们会有更多的时间放松，但享受的物质产品会减少。
The goods in question are the material goods and services that people consume-bicycles, food, banking services and so on.
问题中的产品是人们消费的物质产品和服务，比如自行车、食品、银行服务等等。
Consumption is the process that people consume material goods in the satisfaction of material and cultural life needs.
消费是人们消耗物质资料以满足物质和文化生活需要的过程。
Without the production and supply of material goods, it is difficult or even impossible to realize any other human right.
没有物质资料的生产和供给，人类其他一切权利的实现都是非常困难或不可能的。
The expectation that a man should provide material goods before a woman will accept him is a completely foreign concept to me.
男方需要有房有车，女方才同意结婚，这种对于男方的期望值对我来说是个完全陌生的观念。
Wealth was initially taken as a concept equivalent to "material goods", but understanding wealth at the material level has its limitations.
财富，最初被认为是一个可以与“物质资料”等同的概念，但仅仅在物质层面上理解财富，是有其局限的。
The wealth of a country should be measured in terms of the health and happiness of its people as well as the material goods it can produce.
一个国家的财富不仅要用他所能出产的物资产品同时也要用民众的健康和幸福度来衡量。
How should we-all of us living today-evaluate the well-being of future generations, given that they are likely to have more material goods than we do?
考虑到后代可能比我们拥有更多的物质财富，我们这些活在当下的人该如何评估他们的安宁与幸福呢？
“The more we seek satisfactions in material goods, the less we find them there,” Ryan says. “The satisfaction has a short half-life -- it’s very fleeting.”
“越想在物质生活上寻找满足感，越难找到，”瑞安说：“这种满足感半衰期很短，很容易消失。”
Consequently, it determines how much less benefit future people will derive from additional material goods than people would derive now from those same goods.
结果，这决定了未来人们从额外物质产品中获取的收益将比现在人们从同样产品中获取的收益少多少。
“The idea that you need to go bigger to be happy is false,” she says. “I really believe that the acquisition of material goods doesn't bring about happiness.”
“只有变得更强大才能幸福，这种想法是错的,”她说。“我坚信物质并不能带来幸福感。”
“The idea that you need to go bigger to be happy is false,” she says. “I really believe that the acquisition of material goods doesn't bring about happiness.”
“只有变得更强大才能幸福，这种想法是错的,”她说。“我坚信物质并不能带来幸福感。”
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