1. What could continued income growth promote?
2. What increases one's enjoyment of life and one's sense of well-being?
3. What was people's happiness affected by?
4. has shown that richer people generally the overall quality of their lives more favorably than poorer people do. At the same time, their happiness seems to be motivated less by their to buy more than by being able to keep up with those with comparable resources in their own age group .
5. Whether the affluent are as a whole than their less well-to-do counterparts is becoming an increasingly for debate. In years, much has been written regarding the " of happiness."
6. As incomes in the U.S. to rise over the course of our lifetimes, may find themselves on a sort of treadmill, more and more just to maintain a level of happiness, they write.
Words & Phrases 词汇与短语
Words 词汇
affluent 富裕的
claim 声称,主张
colleague 同事,同僚
comparable 可比较的;比得上的
favorably 亲切地;好意地
motivate 激发
overall 全部的,全面的
psychology 心理学;心理状态
treadmill 踏车;跑步机
well-to-do 小康的,富裕的
Phrases 短语
as a whole 总体上
keep up with... 赶上......
rather than 而不是
up to a point 部分地