The above quote is from a story I read last weekend in The Simple Life.

这是我上周末在《简朴的生活》一书看到的一个故事中的一句话。

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With the improvement of the living standards, many people are no longer interested in the simple life style and some of them even feel ashamed to be thrifty.

随着生活水平的提高，许多人不再对简单的生活方式感兴趣，有的人甚至觉得自己很惭愧。他们追求的是最新的时尚。

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In other words, we make our own happiness. The first secrect of happiness is to enjoy the simple things in life.

换句话说，我们自己创造自己的幸福。幸福的第一个秘密是享受生活中简单的事情。

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The love song "Ordinary" celebrates the beauty of simple things in everyday life.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

But on the other hand these advances have also come at a cost. And in this story there's also a sense of longing for the freedom of life in the wild--the innocent, simple, uncomplicated life lived day to day without plans, without toil, in harmony with nature Edenic a somewhat Edenic existence.

但是，换个角度来看，人类付出了代价,才得到这些优点，在这部史诗中，同样存在着,对一种纯真，简单，纯粹生活的向往,每天生活中没有计划，辛劳，与自然和平相处,就像以前的。

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In nineteen ninety-six, a NASA study announced the discovery of what appeared to be the mineral remains of very simple forms of life in the Allan Hills meteorite.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

She also enjoys the simple pleasures in life, like walking her miniature dachshund Josh and, of course, shoe shopping.

BBC: Presenter Profile: Louisa Hannan

Yes, just like that hat, Harry enjoyed the simple things in life, and he had incredible wanderlust for the natural world around him.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Though her chapter on the Galapagos islands deserves praise for bringing Darwin to life in deceptively simple language, it contains no mention of the row among fishing interests, travel promoters and conservationists that is now engulfing the islands.

ECONOMIST: Island life