Marriage is always a hopeless idiocy for a woman who has enough of her own to live upon.
对一个自己有足够的生活资料的女人来说，结婚是一种不可救药的极端愚蠢的行为。Only in such cases, the activity in production can go on, public resources will be utilized, the means of livelihood could be produced out.
只有在这样的情况下，生产活动才能够得以进行，公共资源才会得到利用，生活资料才能生产出来。This kind of inequality contradicts with equal requirement for consumption of the means of livelihood.
这种不平等与生活资料的消费方面的平等要求相矛盾。On one hand, house is one of life's necessities for resident, which can satisfy human with means of livelihood from the cradle to the grave.
一方面，住房是所有居民的生活必需品，是满足人从出生到死亡全过程的基本需要的生活资料；when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.
人口在不加抑制时以几何比率增长。生活资料仅以算术比率增长。Marxs theory of socially basic contradiction takes the production of means of material subsistence as its starting point.
马克思的社会基本矛盾理论以物质生活资料的生产为出发点；而这二者又是内在统一的。Malthus' theory that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence .
马尔萨斯认为人口的增长快过生活资料的增长。Mineral resource is one of the basic sources of human being's. It is the material groundwork of social development.
矿产资源是人类生产资料和生活资料的基本源泉之一，是社会发展的物质基础。Some people used to long, steamy sessions in the shower are learning how to get the essentials done in the least amount of time.
那些习惯了长时间、热乎乎洗热水澡的人至少在这个时候要学会如何获得一些最基本的生活资料。