joneses

基本解释

We have the technological equivalent of what we call in the U.S. "keeping up with the Joneses."
我们有一个技术上的等效，即我们称为美国式的“跟上邻居”。
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.
分开的研究发现，拥有理想中的房子，长期渴望的车和银行里存有几百万都不能停止你赶上你邻居的欲望。
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.
最后我们提出了一个解决方案，我们希望，为在这个世界里上的《达尔维丝夫人》和《布里吉特·琼斯》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.