文档介绍：We shall all have made it to Heaven when we possess enough.
当我们拥有足够的财富时,我们就会获得极大的成功。
to heaven(s): extremely
under heaven: on earth, exactly
At the same time the forces of American business are hugely dedicated to
making us deliberately unhappy. Advertising is one of our major industries,
and advertising exists not to satisfy desires but to create them--and to create
them faster than anyone’s budget can satisfy them. For that matter, our whole
economy is based on addicting us to greed.
Budget: a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose
on a (tight) budget
within your budget
balance the budget
cut the budget deficit
Addict : v. to cause (someone or oneself) to e dependent (on something,
especially a narcotic drug)
be addicted to 对麻醉剂成瘾的母亲所生的新生儿也对麻醉剂成瘾。
The children of narcotic-addicted mothers will be born addicted to narcotics.
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As for purchasing desire, our whole economy is built on the basis of making us devote habitually pulsively to greed, or to the desire to buy
花钱不多
预算之内
平衡收支预算
削减预算赤字
Carter to: 1) try to satisfy the wants or needs of
Minorca is the sort of place that caters for families...
梅诺卡岛是那种适合家庭旅游的地方。
Some tabloid newspapers carter to low tastes.
有些小报迎合低级趣味。
2)provide food or entertainment
Who is catering your daughter’s wedding?
谁承办你女儿的婚宴?
Besides serving individual customers, we also cater banquets and weddings.
除了为散客服务,我们还承接宴席和婚宴。
3) take… into account
Exercise classes cater to all levels of fitness. ()
各种健身班会照顾到不同身体状况的人。
We have to cater for demand. ()
我们得考虑需求。
Defining the meaning of “happiness” is a perlexing proposition: the best one
can do is to try to set some extremes to the idea and then work towards the
middle. The think of happiness as achieving superiority over others, living in a
mansion made of marble, having a wardrobe with hundreds of outfits, will do
to set the greedy extreme.
给“幸福”下定义是一个令人困惑的问题:最好的办法是先设定两个极端,然后寻求中庸。
认为幸福就是高人一等,