Over these years, many studies have shown that we are crazy about happiness and high personal confidence. That may make us less satisfied with our lives.

这些年来，许多研究都表明我们在疯狂地追求幸福和高度的自信。这可能会让我们对生活不那么满意。

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High earners won't work much less; they might even work harder, because it takes more effort to make enough to buy that fourth home.

高收入者不会工作得更少，也许会更卖力地工作，因为只有更卖力才能挣够买第四套房的钱。

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The key here is that high interest rates make you less willing to pay more now to get something later.

这里的关键因素是，高利率让我们不愿现在付更多的钱现来得到未来需要的东西。

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All the same, Whitman said steps could be taken to make commercial shipping less vulnerable to piracy on the high seas.

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This can even out the risks - you are less likely to make very high returns, but also less likely to suffer large losses.

BBC: There are lots of ways to put some money away for the future.

Make the high score less important and come together in pursuit of a common achievement: to move from one world to the next.

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We know that if you've got a college education, you are going to make multiples of what you would make as a high school graduate, much less a high school dropout over the course of a lifetime.

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