Affluence means having lots of money or material possessions.

富裕是指拥有很多钱或物质财富。

B) It is rooted in our desire for material possessions.

B）它根植于我们对物质财富的渴望。

Our material possessions, our achievements, even our very lives, are fleeting and can disappear right now.

我们的物质财富，我们的成就，甚至我们的生命，都转瞬即逝，可能马上消失。

His few material possessions make it possible for him to move from place to place with ease.

他几乎没有什么财产，这使他能够轻松自如地在各地奔波。

No amount of money, friends, or material possessions will do the job if our contentment isn't already internalized.

如果我们的满足还没有内化，再多的金钱、朋友或物质财富也无法完成这项工作。

That spiritual quest had caused him to eschew material possessions, but he was nonetheless impressed by Jobs's tape deck.

精神上的探索让他不再追求物质享受，尽管如此，他还是对乔布斯的录音座印象深刻。

I had never seen material possessions at a more irreducible minimum.

我从未见过最低限度的物质财产。

Moreover, there was more emphasis on interpersonal relationships and less dependency on material possessions.

此外，人们更加强调人际关系， 减少对物质财富的依赖。

That's why he lives in a dilapidated house and has very few material possessions.

所以他住在破旧的房子里，物质上的财产很少。

The elderly lay aside their material possessions and take up a spiritual existence, perhaps in some remote ashram in the forest or the hills.

老年人把他们的物质财产放在一边，开始一种精神上的生活，也许是在偏远的森林或山区的道场。

But when we have a higher purpose and are able to achieve higher levels of happiness, there's no point in chasing all these material possessions anymore.

但是当我们有了更高的目标，能够获得更高水平的幸福时，再追逐所有这些物质财富就没有意义了。

Their parents paid their full tuition, they lived in beautiful campus dorms they had every material possession a college kid could want; cars, computers, spending money.

他们的父母为他们支付了全额学费， 他们住在漂亮的校园宿舍里，他们拥有大学生想要的一切物质财富； 汽车、电脑、花钱。

It's also one that's forever developing new ways to persuade our children to desire material possessions, and because of advertisements' viral effect they only need to infect a few to reach the many.

这也是一个不断发展新方法来说服我们的孩子渴望物质财富的方法，因为广告的病毒效应，他们只需要感染少数人就能接触到大多数人。

If you're curious why, the reason was that the chief want to show his people that he was so superior, that material possessions meant other men unto him.

如果你好奇为什么，原因是酋长想向他的人民表明他是如此优越，物质财富对他来说意味着其他人。

If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?

凡有世上财物的，看见弟兄穷乏，却塞住怜恤的心，爱　神的心怎能存在他里面呢？

Ogilvie and her team have been building the vast database of material possessions on top of their full demographic reconstruction of the people who lived in these two German communities.

Ogilvie 和她的团队在对居住在这两个德国社区的人们进行全面人口统计重建的基础上，一直在构建庞大的物质财产数据库。

Parents who both hold down full-time jobs may feel guilty about the amount of time they spend away from their children and, as accommodation for being away so much, may attempt to compensate by showering them with material possessions.

两人都是全职工作者的父母也许会因为不能常常和孩子在一起而感到内疚。他们可能想通过给孩子们大量物质的东西作为对他们的补偿。