The couple stared. "My lady has huge wealth", continued the messenger, "But in one thing she is poor.

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But just to make it concrete and to see what's at stake, consider the distribution of wealth in the United States.

但为了更形象，看看问题何在，以美国的财富分配状况为例。

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Sociologically unlike the philosopher is a person of some inherited wealth chiefly landed property but whose way of life will be urban.

亚里士多德清楚地指明,不像哲学家,前者继承了一定程度的财富,主要是地产,但其生活模式。

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But he says they also act as representations of a country's wealth and geopolitical power.

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But at some point you have to understand that the benefits of redistribution of wealth don't justify the initial violation of the property right.

但某种程度上说，你得明白,财富重新分配的好处,并不能为侵犯财产权正名。

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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.

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The temptations that Mammon offers Guyon are literally within the story itself temptations of wealth, but they're also temptations to the wealth of classical learning, the wealth of the entire classical heritage.

贪神向盖恩抛出的诱惑,从字面上说这个故事讲的是财富的诱惑，但实际上它要表达的是学习古典文献所得财富的诱惑，也是整个古典文学遗产财富带来的诱惑。

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That slavery may have its bad aspects but it has been the engine of good, it has been the engine of empires, the engine of wealth, the engine of greatness.

奴隶制本身也有不好的方面,但是它曾是一切善行的起源,帝国崛起的推动力,是一切财富的来源,伟大事物的起源

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He tries not only to copy European absolutism, but to open up Russia to commerce, realizing that trade meant wealth and that wealth meant improvements in the lives of the Russian people.

他不仅试图仿效欧洲的绝对主义,也开放了俄国的商业贸易,他意识到贸易意味着财富,而财富则等同于俄国民众生活水平的提高

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So control of these international highways brought a great deal of wealth to the area, but the central location was a double-edged sword, because in times of peace it would bring prosperity, but, of course, in times of war the land was perpetually invaded as armies would crisscross the land going off to do battle with the great powers.

对这些国际要道的控制,给这个地区带来了大量的财富，但这处于中心的地理位置也如同一把双刃剑，因为在和平时期它带来繁荣，但，在战乱时期，这块土地常常被侵略,当军队在此刀刃相交,或者经过与强国征战。

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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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Everybody knows that all those heroes are there because they want to be and they want to be there, so that they can earn both the wealth that can be taken from a defeated city, but even more important, the kind of fame and glory that comes with such deeds.

我们都知道,所有去战斗的英雄们,都是自愿的,他们想去战斗是因为,他们可以赢得从战败的城市获得的财富,更重要的是,由这些功绩带来的名望和荣誉

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You certainly could make the case that it is not... their wealth is not appropriate to the goodness in their hearts, but that's not really the morally relevant issue.

你当然可以举出例子来。,说他们的财富与他们的良善不相当，但这与道义无关。

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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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