Perhaps material goods just can't make us happy?

或许单单的物质享受并不能真的让我们感到幸福；

The fact is that people like piling up material goods.

事实是，人们就爱添置物质用品。

Focus more on friends and family, less on material goods.

更关注朋友和家庭，而非物质财富。

Material goods are considered the only signifiers of success in a society.

物质变成社会里的唯一成功指针。

They are being taught to shop, and to value material goods over anything else .

我们教给他们购物，教他们物质商品重于一切。

Prices for material goods tend toward equilibrium, depending on supply and demand.

物质商品的价格倾向于达到均衡点，该价格依供求状况而定。

Though it may be possible to measure the value of material goods in terms of money.

虽然物质产品的价值可以用金钱来衡量。

Marxist theory of economical growth is about the production of material goods.

马克思的经济增长理论是以物质资料的生产为研究对象的。

The reasons vary from an unstable home life to a desire for material goods, Chiu said.

从家庭不稳定到物质诱惑原因千差万别。

Personally, you compete for resources, material goods, time, attention, and energy.

从个人来讲，你为了资源、物质、时间、被关注和能源等竞争。

We should learn to express our feelings than to show our love through material goods.

我们应学着说出自己的感情，而不是让爱的表达依赖于物质。

Thephysiocrats, too, stressed material goods, and agriculture was the mainmaterial product.

重农主义者也强调了物质商品，而农业是当时主要的物质产出。

The physiocrats, too, stressed material goods, and agriculture was the main material product.

重农主义者也强调了物质商品，而农业是当时主要的物质产出。

"Actually, we cannot make a clear separation of affection and material goods," she continued.

事实上，我们无法清楚地将感情与物质区分开来。

The purpose of our life is not to amass riches and material goods, although that can be our focus.

我们生命的目的不在累积财富和物质，虽然这也可能是我们的焦点。

And what I cannot afford in material goods, I can make up for by honestly praising her in this way.

如果我不能支付得起物质上的一切，我可以通过这样的赞美来弥补。

That's true transumerism: You divest yourself of costly material goods and put your money where your life is.

这就是真正的瞬时消费主义：你放弃了昂贵的物质商品，把钱花在你的生活上。

Have an experience instead of giving material goods: do something fun together, go to the beach or a lake.

试试用一次经历代替物质礼物：一起做些开心的事，比如去海边或者湖边游玩。

systems of inheritance and land rights, affecting the distribution of power and material goods within families;

继承体系和土地权，这会影响到家庭内部的权力和物质分配；

I wouldn't be one of those people standing amidst the rubble of my home shedding tears over lost material goods.

我不会成为那些伫立在已经成为瓦砾的家门前因为丧失财产而伤心落泪的人中的一员。

The simple answer is that we'd all produce less, which would mean more time to relax and fewer material goods to enjoy.

简单的答案是：我们的产出会减少，这意味着我们会有更多的时间放松，但享受的物质产品会减少。

We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

我们还认识到，没有信心和决心，堆积物质上的食物不能弥补生活上的空虚。

The goods in question are the material goods and services that people consume-bicycles, food, banking services and so on.

问题中的产品是人们消费的物质产品和服务，比如自行车、食品、银行服务等等。

Consumption is the process that people consume material goods in the satisfaction of material and cultural life needs.

消费是人们消耗物质资料以满足物质和文化生活需要的过程。

Without the production and supply of material goods, it is difficult or even impossible to realize any other human right.

没有物质资料的生产和供给，人类其他一切权利的实现都是非常困难或不可能的。

'Nobody is in the position to judge how you enjoy material goods if you earn them by your hard work and talent, ' said Mr.

郭敬明说：“没有人有权评判你如何享受物质生活，如果这种生活是你通过你的才华和辛苦工作得来的。”

The expectation that a man should provide material goods before a woman will accept him is a completely foreign concept to me.

男方需要有房有车，女方才同意结婚，这种对于男方的期望值对我来说是个完全陌生的观念。

Wealth was initially taken as a concept equivalent to "material goods", but understanding wealth at the material level has its limitations.

财富，最初被认为是一个可以与“物质资料”等同的概念，但仅仅在物质层面上理解财富，是有其局限的。