we are ultimately concerned with living standards - both the average standard of living (which reflects economic efficiency) and the distribution of living standards.
我们最终最在意的是生活水準:包含平均生活水準(反应经济效率)及生活水準分布状况。
the average standard of living is lowered compared with what it would have been.
平均的生活水準相对于原本的要低了。
in stead of people starving, the average standard of living rose.
人们并没有挨饿,相反生活平均水平都提高了。
the average standard of living of the masses of western and central europe was, seen from our present-day point-of-view, shockingly bad.
按照我们今天的标準来看,当时的西欧和中欧地区人民的平均生活水平是令人震惊的糟糕。
nobody will deny that in all capitalistic countries the average standard of living of the earners of wages and salaries has improved to an unprecedented and unexpected degree.