In 1992, a study on literacy of United States a particular illiteracy was associated with law incompetence, with poverty, with welfare, with incarceration.

992年，一项关于美国人文化素养的研究,文化素养低下与,低下的生活水平，贫困和社会福利，以及监禁有一定关系。

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And if we lower our expectations, we lower our stress levels and we will enjoy life more.

如果能降低期望，降低压力水平，我们会更享受生活。

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He tries not only to copy European absolutism, but to open up Russia to commerce, realizing that trade meant wealth and that wealth meant improvements in the lives of the Russian people.

他不仅试图仿效欧洲的绝对主义,也开放了俄国的商业贸易,他意识到贸易意味着财富,而财富则等同于俄国民众生活水平的提高

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The answer is that the majority of people with autism have severe problems, and will not, and at this stage, with this level of therapy, will not lead a normal life.

答案便是,大多数孤独症患者会遇到很多严重的问题,而在现阶段的心理治疗水平下,是不能够过上正常生活的

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He's going to ameliorate their conditions, he's going to make their slavery on his plantations so effective, so good, such a even joyous form of labor, that he will be doing God's work by improving slavery.

他会改善奴隶们的生活条件,他会让自己种植园的奴隶们,提高工作效率,优化管理模式,奴隶甚至是一种令人享受的工作,他会按照上帝的旨意提升奴隶的生活水平

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The other thing about it is that you could make lots of things that are new but generally you think of engineers as making things that are not just new but they're useful, that they do something that needs to be done, and that they do something that improves life, the quality of life of people.

另一个区别是,科学家会做很多很多新鲜玩意儿,而一般来讲,工程师做的东西不只是新奇,它们还很有用,他们做那些需要做的东西,他们做的东西能够提高,人类的生活水平和生活质量

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Very little difference-- where we are, where we live, income levels, lottery, tenure, getting into our dream college, getting our dream job for you seniors-- you may have just gotten it.

微乎甚微的区别-,我们在哪里，我们生活在哪里，收入水平，是否中彩票，是否取得终身职位，入读理想中大学，找到理想工作，大四学生-,可能已经找到。

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When we study our average,we are describing our lives.

当我们研究平均水平，我们只是描述日常生活。

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I'll take this even a step further, even though there is no research about this, I bet you this is correct: there is no difference in our levels of wellbeing if our place of residents is by the river or in the .

我会进一步说明，虽然还没有这方面的研究，我敢和你们打赌，下面的说法是正确的：,我们的幸福水平不会有所不同,不论我们是生活在河边,还是呆在监狱。

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