The luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.

这一句徐译一个阶级的奢侈全靠另一个阶级的贫苦来维持。

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For one of the poets has said, 'Application to business is the root of prosperity, but those who ask questions that do not concern them are steering the ship of folly towards the rock of indigence'.

有位诗人说道：心思用在生意上，乃是发财致富的根本；凡是打听与此无关的问题的人，便是正在把愚蠢的船向贫穷的礁石撞去。

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His present indigence is a sufficient punishment for former folly.

他现在所受的困苦足够惩罚他从前的胡作非为了。

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His message has hit home with many leaders in the Third World because for them the challenge of dealing with generations of indigence looms so large.

FORBES: A New Kind of Entitlement

Irked by what they consider to be the euro zone's habit of rewarding indigence and penalising thrift, and concerned about what they see as a drift towards fiscal union, some senior Slovaks are even threatening to dump the common currency altogether.

ECONOMIST: Slovakia and the euro