【正文】 s with good prospects and they were able to get married. They were still poor, of course, they didn’t have a house to live in or any furniture, but that didn’t matter. They young man had a good job with good prospects, so large organizations lent him the money he needed to buy a house, some furniture, all the latest electrical appliances and a car. The couple lived happily ever after paying off debts for the rest of their lives. And so ends another modern romantic fable.　　We live in a materialistic society and are trained from our earliest years to be acquisitive. Our possessions, yours and mine are clearly labeled from early childhood. When we grow old enough to earn a living, it does not surprise us to discover that success is measured in terms of the money you earn. We spend the whole of our lives keeping up with our neighbors, the Joneses. If we buy a new television set, Jones is bound to buy a bigger and better one. If we buy a new car, we can be sure that Jones will go one better and get two new cars: one for his wife and one for himself. The most amusing thing about this game is that Joneses and all the neighbors who are struggling frantically to keep up with them are spending borrowed money kindly provided, at a suitable rate of interest, of course, by friendly banks, insurance panies, etc.　　It is not only affluent societies that people are obsessed with the idea of making more money. Consumer goods are desirable everywhere and modern industry deliberately sets out to create new markets. Gone are the days when industrial goods were made to last forever. The wheels of industry must be kept turning. Builtin obsolescence provides the means。The trade imbalance is likely to rise again in 2007. Hence a new set of policy actions will be required soon. 貿(mào)易不平衡在2007年可能會(huì)再度上揚(yáng)。s a possibility of getting a job with a law firm in London, provided that I do well.如果我做得好的話，有可能在倫敦一家法律事務(wù)所找到一份工作。Nevertheless 表轉(zhuǎn)折，然后，不過，Nevertheless, classification and description of various equivalent relations as we may do, the concept of equivalence is bound to incur a great deal of censure.In the meantime=Meanwhile表同時(shí)，與此同時(shí)Eventually your child will leave home to lead her own life, but in the meantime she relies on your support.Provided that假如，如果，條件是，倘若The IMF is reportedly willing to continue bailing out Greece in the shortterm, provided that Europe uses the time to tackle the issue of debt once and for ，國際貨幣基金組織希望在短期內(nèi)繼續(xù)幫助希臘擺脫困境，如果這樣，歐洲才可以利用這段時(shí)間一次性解決好債務(wù)問題。There39。Hence,表承接，因此，總結(jié)，All that growth takes lots of steel and cement and hence pours carbon into the air—but in time it should drive down emissions.所有這些發(fā)展都需要大量的鋼鐵和水泥，并因此會(huì)向空氣中排放碳——但是國家將能夠及時(shí)地降低排放量。因此需要很快采取一系列新的政策行動(dòng)。 goods are made to be discarded. Cars get tinnier and tinnier. You no sooner acquire this year’s model than you are thinking about its replacement.　　This materialistic outlook has seriously influenced education. Fewer and fewer young people these days acquire knowledge only for its own sake. Every course of studies must lead somewhere. . to a bigger wage packet. The demand for skilled personnel for exceeds the supply and big panies pete with each other to recruit students before they have pleted their studies. Tempting salaries and “fringe benefits” are offered to them. Recruiting tactics of this kind have led to the brain drain, the process by which highly skilled people offer their services to the highest bidder. The wealthier nations deprive their poorer neighbors of their most able citizens. While Mammon is worshipped as never before, the rich get richer and the poor, poorer.　　八、Communication and Language　　One of the first things we think about when we hear the w