历年六级阅读理解逐句翻译：2007年12月（2）

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　　Whats hot for 2007 among the very rich? A S7.3 million diamond ring. A trip to Tanzania to hunt wild animals. Oh. and income inequality.

　　2007年，对于富豪来说什么事最热门的?价值730万美元的钻戒。去坦桑尼亚狩猎。噢，还有收入不均衡。

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

　　当然左翼百万符文乔治-索罗斯多年以来一直反对收入不均衡。

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

　　但是越来越多的中间派和右翼亿万富翁都开始担心收入不均衡和中产阶级的命运了。

　　In December. Mortimer Zuckerman wrote a column in U.S News World Report, which he owns.

　　在12月，莫蒂默-朱克曼在他旗下的《美国资讯和世界报道》上写上了一篇专栏文章。

　　Our nations core bargain with the middle class is disintegrating, lamented the 117th-richest man in America. Most of our economic gains have gone to people at the very top of the income ladder.

　　我们国家的中产阶级的核心竞争力正在瓦解，这位在美国排名第117位的富豪这样哀叹。我们大部分的经济效益都归于收入阶梯最上层的人了。

　　Average income for a household of people of working age, by contrast, has fallen five years in a row. He noted that Tens of millions of Americans live in fear that a major health problem can reduce them to bankruptcy.

　　相比之下，工薪阶层的平均收入却连续五年下降。他注意到数以千万计的美国人害怕一个重要的健康问题就会导致他们破产。

　　Wilbur Ross Jr. has echoed Zuckermans anger over the bitter struggles faced by middle-class

　　Americans.

　　小威尔伯-罗斯回应了朱克曼杜宇美国中产阶级的痛苦挣扎感到的愤怒。

　　Its an outrage that any Americans life expectancy should be shortened simply because the company they worked for went bankrupt and ended health-care coverage, said the former chairman of the International Steel Group.

　　这应该让我们愤怒，所有美国人的平均寿命都被缩短了，仅仅是因为他们所供职的公司破产了，健康保险被终止了这位国际钢铁集团的前任主席说。

　　Whats happening? The very rich are just as trendy as you and I, and can be so when it comes to politics and policy.

　　发生了什么?巨富们当谈到政治和政策的时候就像你我一样适应潮流。

　　Given the recent change of control in Congress, popularity of measures like increasing the minimum wage, and efforts by California governor to offer universal health care, these guys dont need their own personal weathermen to know which way the wind blows.

　　只要看一下国会最近的全力变更，像提高最低工资等政策的受欢迎程度，以及加州州长所致力于的全民保健项目，这些人不需要私人天气预报员就可以知道风向如何了

　　Its possible that plutocrats are expressing solidarity with the struggling middle class as part of an effort to insulate themselves from confiscatory tax policies.

　　这群有钱有势的人可能是通过表达对中产阶级的挣扎的同情，进而逃避没收性税务政策。

　　But the prospect that income inequality will lead to higher taxes on the wealthy doesnt keep plutocrats up at night. They can live with that.

　　但是收入不均衡会导致对富人征收更多税款的期望并不会让有钱有势的人晚上难以入眠。他们承受得了。

　　No, what they fear was that the political challenges of sustaining support for global economic integration will be more difficult in the United States because of what has happened to the distribution of income and economic insecurity.

　　不，他们真正害怕的是由于在收入分配和经济安全方面出现的问题，美国持续支持全球经济一体化所带来的政治挑战。

　　In other words, if middle-class Americans continue to struggle financially as the ultrawealthy grow ever wealthier, it will be increasingly difficult to maintain political support for the free flow of goods, services, and capital across borders.

　　换句话说，如果美国的中产阶级持续在财政上陷入困境，同时巨富们变得越来越富有，那么要获得政治上持续支持产品、服务和资金的跨国性自由流动将会日益困难。

　　And when the United States places obstacles in the way of foreign investors and foreign goods, its likely to encourage reciprocal action abroad.

　　当美国对其他国家的投资者和商品设置障碍时，也在刺激其他国家采取相应的措施。

　　For people who buy and sell companies, or who allocate capital to markets all around the world, thats the real nightmare.

　　对于在全球买卖公司或调动资金的人来说，这才是真正的噩梦。