If this is true then some heretical conclusions follow: rich America is no happier than poorer Brazil, so what is the point in people who live in rich countries working harder to get ever richer?

如果这是真的，那就会得出一些怪异的结论：富裕的美国并不比贫穷的巴西幸福，那么那些生活在富裕国家的人为了变得更富有而更加努力地工作还有什么意义呢？

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They wanted to live “like people do in a civilised world”, they wanted to travel abroad, get food without queuing and have access to information.

他们希望“像文明人一样”生活，希望能出国旅行，不愿排队领取食物，不愿与外界断绝音讯。

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Wise people live in wealth and luxury, but stupid people spend their money as fast as they get it.

聪明的人生活得很富有并且华贵，愚蠢的人一得到钱就尽快的花掉。

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They had proved that people could live and work in space for the time it would take to get to the moon and back.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

Studies have been done in the city of New York where you can-- if you live in Manhattan you can actually get a very nice metric of how far apart people live from each other in city blocks. Right?

纽约市就做过这类实验,在纽约-,如果你生活在曼哈顿,你能准确地测量,生活不同街道的人相互距离多远？

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In a country where half the people live on less than $2 a day, locals crowd desolate refugee camps, trying to get in.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

Getting your license used to be a big thing, but now people live in cities and you get around with the train or in cabs.

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Malcolm Fraser points to things such as measures to get people to live in town centres again, to keep schools and other services there and to have a mix of retail along with culture and leisure.

BBC: How can Scotland's town centres survive?

And I think if you don't live the lives that most people live, with the best will in the world, you get out of touch.

BBC: Shirley Williams