A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
物质财富
Material Possessions
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
珍惜你的人际关系，而不是你的财产。
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
你永远无法得到足够的东西，你不需要让你快乐。
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
对于那些富有的人来说，没有什么比想象别人是如何陷入贫困更困难的了。
I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
我想让我的孩子拥有所有我买不起的东西。然后我想搬去和他们一起住。
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
我的老祖母曾经说过，世界上只有两家:富人和穷人。
Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.
世俗的财富就像坚果;许多牙齿在咬碎它们的过程中折断了，但胃里却从来没有吃过它们。
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
人们说钱不是幸福的钥匙，但我一直认为如果你有足够的钱，你可以做一把钥匙。
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
法律，以其庄严的平等，禁止富人和穷人睡在桥下，在街上乞讨，偷面包。
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
我们的发明往往是漂亮的玩具，分散我们的注意力从严肃的事情。它们只是改进的手段，以达到未改进的目的。
Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.
也许正是这种幽灵最常萦绕在工作的男男女女身上:人们的计划报废与他们生产的产品的计划报废是一体的。或出售。
The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
世界必须认识到，从物质事物中获得的实际快乐，从整体上看质量相当低，甚至在数量上比那些没有尝试过的人所看到的还要少。
As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.
随着事态的发展，我们所缔造的和平，我们似乎正在缔造的和平，将是石油的和平，黄金的和平，航运的和平，简言之，和平。没有道德目的或人类利益。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
如果一个人每天有一半的时间是为了爱他们而在树林里散步，那么他就有可能被认为是一个游手好闲的人。但如果他把自己的时间花在投机上，在她之前砍掉那些树木，让地球光秃秃的，他就被认为是一个勤奋进取的公民。
Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.
我们认为重要的东西大多不是物质，无论是音乐、情感还是爱情。它们是我们看不见摸不着的东西。它们不是物质，但它们对我们至关重要。