Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle,or the ship;

VOA: special.2009.11.23

Yet despite his awareness of the importance of commerce and the importance of property the aim of the city he tells us is not wealth is not the production of wealth.

他虽然注意到,商业与财产的重要性,但城市存在的主要目的,如他说到,并非财富,并非创造财富。

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Wealth property he tells us exists for the sake of virtue not virtue for the sake of wealth.

他告诉我们，财富，财产,是为了德行而存在,并非德行为了财富而存在。

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"Ted Kennedy's life's work was not to champion the causes of those with wealth or power or special connections.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

If not, if they were entitled to whatever it was that enabled them to gather the wealth, the first principle is matched.

如果不是偷来的，如果他们,有权享有那些生产资料，那就算符合第一条原则。

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Not only did the gold show off a family's wealth and status, it was portable and easily sold in a crisis.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

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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Human rights activists said the benefits of Angola's vast oil and diamond wealth is not being equitably distributed.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

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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Opposition parties had accused his family of amassing wealth illegally, but that did not prevent voters from returning him to power this year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

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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"This is America," "We do not disparage wealth.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

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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