So much is certain: that we would have doctors and preachers, lawyers and defendants, marriages and births — but our spiritual outlook would be different.

至少，这些是可以肯定的：虽然我们还会有医生和牧师、律师和被告、婚姻和生育，但人们的精神面貌将是另一个样子。

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So a better standard of living comparison is between how much rice an Asian can buy with a certain income as against how many potatoes an American can by with the same income.

所以一个更好的的生活水平比较方式是：将一个亚洲人以某个固定收入能买多少大米和一个美国人用相同收入买得到多少土豆进行比较。

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For me, the biggest impact over a certain salaried threshold, is not so much earning more money, but watching your expenditures.

当薪水超过一定的水准时，对于我而言，影响最大的并非是挣更多的钱，而是看紧自己的钱包。

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It is not so much that nothing was achieved - it is more that no one is quite certain what will sustain.

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One reason that certain foods carry so much local meaning is that they capture something essential about a region's flora and fauna.

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With a sample size that so far stands at just two, it is hard to know much for certain, although the new bug seems to cause rapid kidney failure in those it infects.

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