你得工作多久纔買得起一部iPhone
Apple iPhones are ubiquitous, with people obsessively hunched over them from New York to London to Kiev. But how well people can afford them varies widely, even among the world’s most prosperous cities.
蘋果iPhone無處不在，從紐約到倫敦，再到基輔，人們都着魔般地使用它。但就算是在世界上最富裕的一些城市，消費者購買它的能力也是千差萬別。
It’s not so much the price of the phone, but the wages their owners earn, that make the difference. Compare New York and London, for example. People in each city tend to be consumed by work, glued to their smartphones and caught up in a money culture driven by high finance. Both cities are in the top 5 on UBS Wealth Management’s latest list of the world’s most expensive cities.
原因和iPhone售價關係並不大，而在於人們的收入不同，從而造就了這種差別。就拿紐約和倫敦做一個比較。兩座城市的居民都投入大量時間工作，時時刻刻離不開智能手機，捲入了鉅額金融驅動的金錢文化。兩座城市都位居瑞銀財富管理(UBS Wealth Management)最新統計的世界生活成本最高城市名單的前五位。
But the average Londoner would have to work 41.2 hours to earn enough to buy an iPhone 6, while a New Yorker can buy it in just 24, according to the UBS study. That’s because wages lag farther behind the staggeringly high cost of living in London than in New York; London doesn’t even crack the top 10 cities for average gross earnings (it’s 13th, while New York is fourth).
然而，據瑞銀統計，倫敦人平均得工作41.2小時才能賺夠錢買一部iPhone 6，而紐約人只需24個小時。那是因爲，相比於紐約，倫敦的收入大大落後於其高得驚人的生活費用；倫敦甚至擠不進平均毛收入前十城市之列（它名列13位，而紐約是第4位）。
You’d need an even stronger work ethic to afford an iPhone 6 in Athens (98 hours’ work, on average) or Beijing (218 hours) — and have to slog even longer in Nairobi (468 hours) or Kiev (627 hours). But if you lived in Zurich, the highest-paid city in the study, you could snap one up after just 20.6 hours.
在雅典（平均98小時）或北京（218小時），你需要工作更勤奮才能買得起一部iPhone 6。在內羅畢（468小時）或基輔（627小時），你得埋頭苦幹更長時間。不過，如果生活在蘇黎世，即這項研究顯示收入水平最高的城市，你只需工作20.6個小時，就能買得起。
The news is a little better for another consumer product sold around the world: McDonald’s Big Mac. An average Kiev resident has to work only 55 minutes, five times as long as the average New Yorker, to afford one.
對於全球售賣的另一款產品——麥當勞巨無霸漢堡——情況會略好一些。要買一個這樣的漢堡，基輔居民平均只需工作55分鐘，是紐約居民平均所花時間的五倍。
