Many great financial problems are caused by going along with the crowd and trying to keep up with the Joneses .

大多数人的财务困境是由于随大溜,简单地跟从其他人所造成的。

I love my luxuries as much as anyone else. The difference is, some people buy their luxuries on credit. It’s the keep-up-with-the-Joneses trap.

和其他人一样,我也喜欢奢侈品,差别在于有些人贷款购买奢侈品并掉入一个相互攀比的陷阱。

She always likes to keep up with the Joneses

她总喜欢与邻居攀比。

Leo like keeping up with the Joneses .

利奥喜欢赶时髦

Keep up with the Joneses

努力以免落在他人之后

The Joneses are coming for lunch en masse all twelve of them!

琼斯一大家子人都来吃午饭--一共十二口人!

The Joneses have two boys and a girl.

琼斯一家有两个男孩儿一个女孩儿.

They buy a new coloured TV set every other year, not because they need one, but just to keep up with the joneses

他们每两年买一台新的彩电，不是出于需要，而仅仅是为了时髦。

"Catching up with the Joneses " and the Welfare Cost of Inflation

通货膨胀福利成本与消费攀比

I’m not your sort who like to keep up with the Joneses

我可不像你,老是和别人比阔

I’m keeping up with the Joneses .

我尚能过着普通人的生活。

Farm folk seem to place less emphasis than city folk upon competitive consumption, or spending to keep up with the Joneses

乡下人似乎没有城里人那样注重消费和开支上的竞争，赶时髦。

keep up to;keep up with the joneses

与...并驾齐驱

Keeping up with the Joneses is the only thing she’s concerned about

与邻居攀比是她唯一关心的事。

||1: New research hints at other ways inequality could spur crisis. ||2: In a new paper* Marianne Bertrand and Adair Morse, both of the University of Chicago, study patterns of spending across American states between 1980 and 2008. ||3: In particular, they focus on how changes in the behaviour of the richest 20% of households affect the spending choices of the bottom 80%. ||4: They find that a rise in the level of consumption of rich households leads to more spending by the non-rich. ||5: This “trickle-down consumption” appears to result from a desire to keep up with the Joneses . ||6: Non-rich households spend more on luxury goods and services supplied to their more affluent neighbours—domestic services, say, or health clubs. ||7: Had the incomes of America’s top 20% of earners grown at the same, more leisurely pace as the median income, they reckon that the bottom 80% might have saved more over the past three decades—$500 per household per year for the entire period between 1980 and 2008, or $800 per year just before the crisis. ||8: In states where the highest earners were wealthiest, non-rich households were more likely to report “financial duress”.

||1:最新研究表明，不平等还会以其他方式刺激危机发生。||2:芝加哥大学的玛丽安·伯特兰和阿戴尔·莫尔斯最近发表的一篇论文研究了1980——2008年间美国各州的消费模式。||3:他们特别关注了美国人中最富有的20%人群的行为变化如何到影响底层80%人群的消费决策。||4:他们发现，富裕家庭消费水平的提高会引起非富裕家庭开支的增加。||5:人们想要与收入地位相等者进行攀比的心态似乎引发了“涓滴型消费”现象的出现。||6:非富裕家庭在他们那些有钱邻居的影响下会购买更多的奢侈物品和服务——比方说，国内航线或健身俱乐部等。||7:他们估计，过去的三十年里，如果美国收入最高的20%人群的收入增速放缓到像中等收入者一样的水平，底层的那80%人群可能就会更多地进行储蓄——从1980到2008年，每年每户家庭能存500美元，到危机爆发前夕，每年储蓄的金额会上升到800美元。||8:研究表明，在那些收入最高者同时也是最富裕人群的几个州中，非富裕家庭表现出“金融胁迫”症状的可能性更高。

What matters is true liking, interest and passion -- not keeping up with the Joneses .

但自闭症者则更在乎自己的真正喜欢，兴趣和热情-，而不会去攀比跟风。

Advertising encourages consumers to "keep up with the Joneses " , namely, it creates an acquisitive society and a demand for material things.

广告鼓励消费者攀比，换句话说，广告创造出一个贪婪的社会及对物质的需求。

We’ve got to hand it to the Joneses , they have the most beautiful house in the neighborhood.

我们承认钟斯一家真了不得，他们拥有邻近最漂亮的房子。

We have the technological equivalent of what we call in the U. S. "keeping up with the Joneses . "

我们有一个技术上的等效，即我们称为美国式的“跟上邻居”。

We are our own Joneses .

我们只是在跟自己攀比。

In a way, the fear of being judged is the flip side of keeping up with the Joneses .

在某种程度上，害怕被评判也是攀比的另一面。

That seems true because of a phenomenon that sociologists call reference anxiety--or, more popularly, keeping up with the Joneses .

这点似乎是正确的；因为社会学家们将一种现象称之为”参照焦虑“--更通俗的说法，”相互攀比“。

In the end we came up with a solution that, we hoped, allowed room for both the Mrs Dalloways and Bridget Joneses of this world.

最后我们提出了一个解决方案，我们希望，为在这个世界里上的《达尔维丝夫人》和《布里吉特·琼斯》的也留有余地。

Optimum Quantity of Money with Catching up with the Joneses

最优货币数量与消费攀比

kept up with the joneses

vbl.赶上富邻居

keep up with the joneses

vi.攀比,赶时髦