joneses

基本解釋

We have the technological equivalent of what we call in the U.S. "keeping up with the Joneses."
我們有一個技術(shù)上的等效，即我們稱為美國式的“跟上鄰居”。
Separate research found that owning the house of your dreams, the car you always longed for and having millions in the bank doesn’t stop that desire to keep up with the Joneses.
分開的研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，擁有理想中的房子，長期渴望的車和銀行里存有幾百萬都不能停止你趕上你鄰居的欲望。
In the end we came up with a solution that, we hoped, allowed room for both the Mrs Dalloways and Bridget Joneses of this world.
最后我們提出了一個解決方案，我們希望，為在這個世界里上的《達爾維絲夫人》和《布里吉特·瓊斯》的也留有余地。

Not to gain a competitive edge, but to simply keep up with the Joneses.
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But those all-important Bridget Joneses may have already made up their minds by then.
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Not too long ago, we were all the Joneses buying jacuzzis and Hummers and stocks on credit.
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If you say that someone is keeping up with the Joneses, you mean that they are doing something in order to show that they have as much money as other people, rather than because they really want to do it.