To avoid this fate, we all need to work out how to live within our new and increasingly modest means.
要避免这种命运，我们所有人都必须想法设法，以一种新的、更为节俭的方式量入为出。
They argued that Americans, even those of modest means, were abandoning merely adequate products for luxurious ones.
他们认为美国人，甚至是那些收入中等水平的人，都抛弃了一般的货物，追逐奢华的商品。
I asked my mother why we lived with such modest means, unaware of how painful it must have been for a single parent with two young boys to field such questions.
我问妈妈，为什么我们生活得那么简朴，当时完全没有意识到，对于一个带着两个儿子的单身母亲而言回答这个问题是多么痛苦。
Budgets vary, too. One Web site may have the resources to purchase an expensive commercial application, while another may have more modest means and expectations.
预算也不一样，某个网站可能资金雄厚，能够购买昂贵的商业应用程序；而另一个则囊中羞涩，对软件的期望值不高。
This was the mark of prosperity: to wear enough material on one's back to clothe many of more modest means.
当时富贵的标志是：一个有钱人着装所用的布料足以为好几个普通人做衣服了。
And that's not only true for people of modest means.
这不仅是对收入微薄的人而言。
And that's not only true for people of modest means.
这不仅是对收入微薄的人而言。
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