A person eating coarse rice, not fine-grained basmati, dressed in polyester not cotton, has a lower standard of living, even if he eats the same amount of grain and owns the same number of shirts.

一个人吃着粗米而不是精细的印度香米，穿着涤纶衣服而不是棉制的衣服，那么他的生活水平就是在标准生活水平之下，尽管他吃着同样多的谷物，有着同样多的衬衣。

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Given that there is no universal standard for how to measure these statistics, any of these Numbers from any service have to be taken with a grain of salt.

由于没有统一的标准来衡量评估这些统计数字，来自任何服务商的这些数字都不能不加分析轻易相信。

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Thinking so, we may look universe as a grain of rice and a hair as a mountain. The standard is relative.

能够这样想的话，我们就可以视宇宙为一颗小米，也可以视一根头发为一座大山。所有的标准都是相对的。

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