2014年text1 第四段

①Readers of “Happy Money” are clearly a privileged lot, anxious about fulfillment, not hunger. ②Money may not quite buy happiness, but people in wealthier countries are generally happier than those in poor ones.③ Yet the link between feeling good and spending money on others can be seen among rich and poor people around the world, and scarcity enhances the pleasure of most things for most people.④ Not everyone will agree with the authors’ policy ideas, which range from mandating more holiday time to reducing tax incentives for American home buyers.⑤ But most people will come away from this book believing it was money well spent.

 

句子切分：

第一句：

Readers of “Happy Money” are clearly a privileged lot, anxious about fulfillment, not hunger.

翻译解析：《快乐金钱》的读者是幸运的（幸福的），他们为之焦虑的是满足感，而不是果腹。

 

第二句：

1. Money may not quite buy happiness,

2. but people in wealthier countries are generally happier than those in poor ones.

翻译解析：钱也许不一定买来幸福，但是富裕国家的（修饰语前置）人比贫穷国家的（修饰语前置）人通常要更快乐。

 

第三句：

1. Yet the link between feeling good and spending money on others can be seen among rich and poor people around the world,

2. and scarcity enhances the pleasure of most things for most people.

翻译解析：感觉良好和为别人花钱之间存在关联，在贫富国家都存在。对于大多人来说，稀缺性可以增加愉悦感。

 

第四句：

1. Not everyone will agree with the authors’ policy ideas

2. , which range from mandating more holiday time to reducing tax incentives for American home buyers.

翻译解析：并不是每个人都认同作者的观点，比如实行更多的休假时间，减少美国购房者的税收激励（限定性定语从句过长，分开翻译）。

 

第五句：

But most people will come away from this book believing it was money well spent.

翻译解析：但是大多数人在读完这本书时都会觉得它物有所值。

 

重点词汇：

privileged：享有特权的；

be anxious about：为...担忧；相当于worry about；

scarce（形容词，不足的，缺乏的）-scarcity（名词，不足，缺乏）：高频词汇；前面真题有出现过；

enhance：增强，提高；

range from A to B :范围从A到B；

tax incentives：税收的激励措施；

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