Affluence means moving to the suburbs, but the American suburbanite sees, if anything, less of the country than the city apartment dweller with his window boxes and his African violets carefully tended under lights.

• 生活优裕意味着从城区迁往郊区，但如果说两者有什么不同的话，那就是美国郊区居民所欣赏到的田园景色反不如城区公寓居民多，因为后者有窗槛花箱，而他的非洲紫罗兰在光线照耀下得到细心照料。