The Millionaire next door Twenty years ago we began studying how people become wealthy. 1) Initially, we did it just as you might imagine: by surveying people in so-called up-scale neighbourhoods acro

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(160) / 评论(0) 分类 疯狂英语2003年

坚持不懈,直到成功。 我们每天的奋斗就像对参天大树的一次砍击,头几刀可能了无痕迹。每一击看似微不足道,然而,累积起来,巨树终会倒下。这恰

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Southern States Among the Poorest in US 南方各州是美国最贫穷的地方 Southern states are some of the poorest in the U.S., while wealth lives mostly in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. Mississippi is the nations poorest state, says t

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US Universities Working Together to Help Poor Students Michigan State University has long worked with and competed against other colleges and universities in the United States. Michigan State, a public research university, often works on joint resear

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Still in Books and Arts; Book Review;Tax reform in America;A simple bare necessity; 文艺;书评;美国税改;必须做的一件事; The Benefit and the Burden: Tax ReformWhy We Need It and What It Will Take. By Bruce Bartlett. 《效益与负担:

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Finance and Economics; Free exchange; Body of evidence; 财经;自由交流专栏;关于金融危机的大量证据; Is a concentration of wealth at the top to blame for financial crises? 金融危机是否应归咎于财富向上层的集中?

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Finance and Economics;Free exchange;Zero-sum debate; 财经;自由兑换; 零和争论; Economists are rethinking the view that capital should not be taxed; 经济学家正重新考虑是否要推翻不该对资本征税的观点。 Executives th

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Childrens performance at school is more dependent on the area in which they grow up than parental income, a new study suggests. 一项新研究证明,儿童在学校里的学习成绩更容易受成长环境的影响,而不是受父母收入的影响

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A friend of mine recently decided to quit her job and stay home with her two kids, who are almost 1- and 4-years-old. It wasn't a decision she made lightly. First off, the family relied on her income- even though much of it went to pay the nanny, the

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Getting rich and becoming a millionaire is a taboo topic. Saying it can be done by the age of 30 seems like a fantasy. 发财致富,成为百万富翁是一个让人不敢想象的禁忌话题。甚至有人认为在30岁时可以做到这件事只是

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Our children, of course, are priceless. But they do have a cost: about a quarter-million dollars。 我们的孩子当然是无价之宝。但养育他们确实是需要成本的:大约25万美元。 A new government report estimated that a middle-

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由于严重的男女比例失调,中国将有超过三千万男性找不到配偶。谢教授并不认为这种比例失衡会造成严重社会问题,因为这三千万男性可以看作是一种高收入男性VS低收入男性,而低收入者可

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Taxes on wage income vary heavily around the world. 世界各地的工资税率大不相同。 The OECD recently published a report comparing the tax burden on wages in the world's developed economies. One of the main measures the OECD used in the re

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Today we have higher buildings and wider highways, but shorter temperaments and narrower points of view. 今, 吾辈居愈高行愈广,然性愈燥视愈短。 We spend more, but enjoy less. 费愈靡然享愈少。 We have bigger houses, but sma

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SINGAPORE, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Jin Liqun, president-designate of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), said here on Saturday that the AIIB is a very good combination of strong features of public sector companies and private sector compani

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And we think of these things as especially rare, 我们可能会认为这只是个别现象, but a study by the Wisconsin Children's Trust Fund found that 40 percent of low-income kids face multiple instances of childhood trauma, 但威斯康辛儿童

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dock pay 扣薪 unpaid leave 无薪假 before-tax salary 税前薪水 income tax 所得税 take-home pay/after-tax salary 税后净薪 release pay 遣散费 severance pay 解雇费 salary deduction 罚薪 casual leave 事假 sick leave 病假

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Leaders 社论 Minimum wages 最低工资标准 The logical floor 多少才合理 Moderate minimum wages do more good than harm. They should be set by technocrats not politicians 实施适度的最低工资标准利大于弊,但是它们应该由技术

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Today we have higher buildings and wider highways, but shorter temperaments and narrower points of view. 今, 吾辈居愈高行愈广,然性愈燥视愈短。 We spend more, but enjoy less. 费愈靡然享愈少。 We have bigger houses, but sma

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