听力背景知识50篇：45.Wealth

45. Wealth财富 [00:01.87]Owning cars,large houses, or swimming pools [00:06.04]mean different things in different cultures [00:08.85]and may confuse a visitor to the United States. [00:12.33]In many nations,only the rich [00:15.27]have such things as cars and swimming pools; [00:18.26]the poor have very little. [00:20.43]By contrast, this is not true in the United States. [00:24.25]The cost of certain things [00:26.74]that only the rich can afford in other countries [00:29.50]is relatively low. [00:31.41]This means that laborers, farmers, [00:34.64]and people who are not usually regarded as rich [00:37.51]nevertheless have many possessions [00:40.25]that only the rich have in other nations. [00:43.09]Understandably a visitor may assume [00:46.03]that all Americans who own cars [00:48.34]are as rich as people in his own country who own cars. [00:52.35]Actually, this is not the case; [00:55.16]secretaries, university students,factory workers [00:59.16]or farmers can and do buy cars [01:01.81]and many other "expensive" things.