英语翻译I,by comparison,living in my overpriced city apartment,w

英语翻译
I,by comparison,living in my overpriced city apartment,walking to work past putrid sacks of street garbage,paying usurious taxes to local and state governments I generally abhor,I am rated middle class.This causes me to wonder,do the measurements make sense?Are we measuring only that which is easily measured — the numbers on the money chart — and ignoring values more central to the good life?
For my sons there is of course the rural bounty of fresh-grown vegetables,line-caught fish and the shared riches of neighbors’ orchards and gardens.There is the unpaid baby-sitter for whose children my daughter-in-law baby-sits in return,and neighbors who barter their skills and labor.But more than that,how do you measure serenity?Sense of self?
I don’t want to idealize life in small places.There are times when the outside world intrudes brutally,as when the cost of gasoline goes up or developers cast their eyes on untouched farmland.There are cruelties,there is intolerance,there are all the many vices and meannesses in small places that exist in large cities.Furthermore,it is harder to ignore them when they cannot be banished psychologically to another part of town or excused as the whims of alien groups—when they have to be acknowledged as “part of us.”
Nor do I want to belittle the opportunities for small decencies in cities—the eruptions of one-stranger-to-another caring that always surprise and delight.But these are,sadly,more exceptions than rules and are often overwhelmed by the awful corruptions and dangers that surround us

相比之下,住在我的价格过高的城市公寓,步行街的工作过去腐烂垃圾袋,向当地缴纳税收和高利贷州政府普遍厌恶我,我额定中产阶级.这使我不禁想,做有意义的测量?我们测量只有那种容易衡量 - 图表上的钱数 - 和值更无视中央的好生活?
对于我的儿子,当然是有新鲜的自产蔬菜农村奖金,线捕获鱼类和邻居的果园和花园的共同财富.有未付的婴儿,而他们的孩子我的儿媳婴儿回报坐在保姆,邻居谁易货他们的技能和劳动.但除此之外,你怎么衡量平静?自我意识?
我不想在小地方的生活理想化.有些时候,外面的世界无情地侵入,因为当汽油价格上涨或发展蒙上他们的眼睛耕地原状.有残酷,有不容忍的,是有很多恶习,并在这大城市中存在的小地方meannesses.此外,它是很难忽视他们时,他们不能被放逐到另一个城市心理上的一部分或作为外来群体,当他们被称为“我们的一部分承认随心所欲原谅.”
我也不想要贬低城市,是一个陌生人对另一个小规矩关怀爆发的机会,总是惊喜.但这些都是,可悲的是,更多的规则和例外比往往被可怕的腐败和危险,我们周围不知所措