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 詞匯與短語(yǔ)
Words 詞匯
affluent 富裕的
claim 聲稱,主張
colleague 同事,同僚
comparable 可比較的;比得上的
favorably 親切地;好意地
motivate 激發(fā)
overall 全部的,全面的
psychology 心理學(xué);心理狀態(tài)
treadmill 踏車;跑步機(jī)
well-to-do 小康的,富裕的
Phrases 短語(yǔ)
as a whole 總體上
keep up with... 趕上......
rather than 而不是
up to a point 部分地