像他这样勤勉的人亦只能仅仅维持生活。

Industrious as he is, he can only earn a bare living.

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中产阶级“惊慌失措”的另外一个原因就是收入仅仅是事情的一个方面：维持中产阶级的生活很大程度还取决于你的居住地区。

Another reason for middle class "consternation" is that income tells only part of the story: the cost of maintaining a middle-class lifestyle depends heavily on where you live.

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然而，现行的法律明文规定只有岛屿才能支撑得起经济区，仅仅是不能维持人类居住和经济生活的礁岩岛没有这项特权。

Yet current law lays down that only islands can support economic areas. Mere rocks, places which "cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own", have no such privilege.

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