六级While by no means perfect, it is considerably more comprehensive than average income, taking into account not only growth in consumption per person but also changes in working time, life expectancy, and inequality.

尽管绝非十全十美，但它比平均收入要全面得多，不仅考虑到人均消费的增长，还考虑到工作时间、预期寿命和不平等性的变化。

2018年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级Addressing differences in the earliest years, it seems, could reduce inequality in the next generation.

在最初几年解决差异似乎可以减少下一代的不平等。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级Just one week after Obama was elected president, participants were less ready to support policies designed to address racial inequality than they had been two weeks before the election.

就在奥巴马当选总统一周后，与选举前两周相比，参与者对支持旨在解决种族不平等问题的政策的准备程度有所下降。

2010年6月阅读原文

六级Those trying to address issues of racial inequality need to constantly remind people of the inequalities that still exist to counteract the Obama's effect, she says

她说，那些试图解决种族不平等问题的人需要不断提醒人们仍然存在的不平等，以抵消奥巴马的影响

2010年6月阅读原文

六级A negative side of the Obama effect is that people are now less ready to support policies addressing racial inequality

奥巴马效应的负面影响是，人们现在不太愿意支持解决种族不平等问题的政策

2010年6月阅读原文

六级people are now less ready to support policies addressing racial inequality

人们现在不太愿意支持解决种族不平等的政策

2010年6月阅读原文

六级Data reveals that economic inequality rather than family income might affect people's well-being.

数据显示，经济不平等而不是家庭收入可能会影响人们的福祉。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级However, they generally agree with the idea that inequality in the information society is fundamentally different from that of an industrial society.

然而，他们普遍同意这样一种观点，即信息社会的不平等性与工业社会的不平等性有着根本的不同。

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

六级Inequality itself is not a particularly strong predictor of economic mobility, as sociologist Scott Winship noted in a recent article based on his analysis of this data.

正如社会学家斯科特·温希普（Scott Winship）在最近一篇基于对这些数据分析的文章中指出的那样，不平等本身并不是经济流动性的一个特别强的预测因素。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级The increasing differences in child rearing between rich and poor families reflect growing social inequality.

贫富家庭在抚养子女方面的差异越来越大，这反映了社会不平等的加剧。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级In the past decade, even as income inequality has grown, some of the socioeconomic differences in parenting, like reading to children and going to libraries, have narrowed.

在过去十年中，即使收入不平等有所加剧，但育儿方面的一些社会经济差异，如给孩子读书和去图书馆，已经缩小。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级Inequality is dangerous, he argued, not merely because it doesn't look good to have a large gap between the rich and the poor, but because inequality itself destroys upward mobility, making it harder for the poor to escape from poverty.

他认为，不平等是危险的，不仅因为贫富差距过大看起来不太好，而且因为不平等本身破坏了向上流动性，使穷人更难摆脱贫困。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级Early childhood experiences can be very consequential for children's long-term social, emotional and cognitive development, said Sean Reardon, professor of poverty and inequality in education at Stanford University.

斯坦福大学贫困和教育不平等问题教授肖恩·里尔登说，幼儿时期的经历对儿童的长期社会、情感和认知发展非常重要。

2017年6月阅读原文

考研At a time when Thomas Piketty and other economists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing power of inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states.

在托马斯·皮凯蒂（Thomas Piketty）和其他经济学家警告不平等性加剧和继承财富的力量日益增强之际，富有的贵族家庭仍然是现代民主国家象征性的核心，这一点很奇怪。

2015年考研阅读原文

六级America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequality from one generation to the next.

美国的教育体系与其说是一个机会阶梯，不如说是一个将不平等现象代代相传的结构。

2016年6月阅读原文

考研Taxes on low-wage labor need to be cut, and wage subsidies such as the earned income tax credit should be expanded: This would boost incomes, encourage work, reward companies for job creation, and reduce inequality.

低工资劳动力的税收需要削减，劳动所得税抵免等工资补贴应该扩大：这将提高收入、鼓励工作、奖励创造就业机会的公司并减少不平等。

2018年考研阅读原文

四级As informatization progresses in society, the cause and structural nature of social inequality changes as well.

随着社会信息化的发展，社会不平等的原因和结构性也在发生变化。

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

六级Economic inequality is the defining challenge of our time.

经济不平等是我们时代的决定性挑战。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级Economic inequality is the "defining challenge of our time".

经济不平等是“我们时代的决定性挑战”。

2015年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级The class differences in child rearing are growing—a symptom of widening inequality with far-reaching consequences.

抚养子女方面的阶级差异正在扩大——这是不平等性扩大的一个症状，并产生了深远的后果。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级Meanwhile, growing income inequality has coincided with the increasing importance of a college degree for earning a middle-class wage.

与此同时，收入不平等日益加剧，与此同时，大学学历对于赚取中产阶级工资的重要性也越来越高。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级However, that comparison omits other relevant factors: leisure time, life expectancy, and economic inequality.

然而，这种比较忽略了其他相关因素：休闲时间、预期寿命和经济不平等。

2018年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级It contributes little to the elimination of inequality.

它对消除不平等几乎没有贡献。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级They found some evidence that some crude measures, like income inequality, correlated with changes in well-being, but economic measures with a more direct impact, like family income and unemployment rates which put families into difficulties, had no relat

他们发现一些证据表明，一些粗略的衡量标准，如收入不平等，与幸福感的变化相关，但更直接的经济衡量标准，如使家庭陷入困境的家庭收入和失业率，与幸福感的变化无关

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级Obama is only the most prominent public figure to declare inequality Public Enemy No.

奥巴马是唯一一位宣布不平等为公敌的最杰出的公众人物。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级Increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American Dream, he said.

他说，不平等加剧和流动性下降对美国梦构成了根本威胁。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级"Increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American Dream," he said.

“不平等加剧和流动性下降对美国梦构成了根本性威胁，”他说。

2015年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

考研Income inequality usually falls during a recession, but it has not shrunk in this one.

收入不平等在衰退期间通常会下降，但在这次衰退中并没有缩小。

2012年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级It is most imperative to focus our efforts on the elimination of income inequality.

当务之急是集中精力消除收入不平等。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级Those trying to address issues of racial inequality need to constantly remind people of the inequalities that still exist to counteract the Obama's effect, she says.

她说，那些试图解决种族不平等问题的人需要不断提醒人们仍然存在的不平等，以抵消奥巴马的影响。

2010年6月阅读原文

六级Inequality Is Not Inevitable A dangerous trend has developed over this past third of a century.

不平等并非不可避免

2015年6月大学英语六级考试真题（二）

六级Sure, some leftish billionaires like George Soros have been railing against income inequality for years.

当然，像乔治·索罗斯这样的左翼亿万富翁多年来一直在抱怨收入不平等。

2007年12月英语六级真题

六级But increasingly, centrist and right-wing billionaires are staring to worry about income inequality and the fate of the middle class.

但越来越多的中间派和右翼亿万富翁开始担心收入不平等和中产阶级的命运。

2007年12月英语六级真题

六级But the prospect that income inequality will lead to higher taxes on the wealthy doesn’t keep plutocrats up at night.

但收入不平等将导致对富人征收更高税收的前景并不能让财阀们夜不能寐。

2007年12月英语六级真题

四级One explanation might be that women, who despite decades of social advances still suffer from economic inequality, discrimination (歧视) and even violence, might have more to cry about.

一种解释可能是，尽管社会进步了几十年，但妇女仍然遭受着经济不平等、歧视(歧视) 甚至暴力，可能还有更多值得哭诉的地方。

2014年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）

四级Some of the indicators such as income inequality,measured by the Equality of Opportunity Project for the year 2000, have only worsened in the past 16 years.

一些指标，如2000年机会平等项目衡量的收入不平等，在过去16年中只会恶化。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第1套）

四级Some San Jose residents say that as inequality has grown in recent years,upward mobility has become much more difficult to achieve.

一些圣何塞居民表示，随着近年来不平等现象的加剧，向上流动变得更加困难。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第1套）

四级But as income inequality rises to record levels in the United States, even in the midst of a record eco-nomic expansion, those familiar images are outdated,hurtful, and counterproductive to focusing atten-tion on solutions and building ladders of opportunity.

但是，随着收入不平等在美国上升到创纪录的水平，即使是在创纪录的经济扩张中，这些熟悉的画面也已经过时、有害，而且对专注于解决方案和建立机会阶梯起到了反作用。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

四级Today’s faces of income inequality and lack of opportunity look like all of us.

今天面临收入不平等和缺乏机会的情况和我们所有人一样。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

四级That comment, says Mothering Justice director Danielle Atkinson,“was meant to shame and relied on the familiar notion that a woman of color concerned about income inequality and programs that pro-mote mobility must by definition be a single mom, probably with multiple kids.

《母亲正义》导演丹妮尔·阿特金森表示，这一评论“意在羞辱并基于一种熟悉的观念，即关注收入不平等和促进远程流动的有色人种女性必须是单身母亲，可能有多个孩子。”。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

四级And in most cases in the America of 2019, the images that come to mind when we hear the words poverty or income inequality fail miserably in reflecting a complicated reality: poverty touches virtually all of us.

在2019年的美国，大多数情况下，当我们听到贫困或收入不平等这个词时，脑海中浮现的画面都无法反映一个复杂的现实：贫困几乎影响到我们所有人。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

四级The face of income inequality, for all but a very few of us, is the one we each see in the mirror.

除了极少数人之外，我们所有人都会从镜子中看到收入不平等的一面。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

考研For example, they do not compensate for gross social inequality, and thus do not tell how able an underprivileged youngster might have been had he grown up under more favorable circumstances.

例如，它们并不能弥补严重的社会不平等，因此也不能说明如果一个贫困的年轻人在更有利的环境下长大，他会有多能干。

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