They assigned him to collins , a camp manager at arvin in california .

他们将他分配给科林斯，位于加利福尼亚州阿尔文的一个营地的管理者。

Collins and arvin are at the moral centre of the book ; what he learned there gave steinbeck the vision and mass of knowledge he needed to write the book .

科林斯和阿尔文是书中的道德中心；斯坦贝克在那里学到的东西给了他写作需要的洞察力和知识。

Mak arvin and byron lew of department of economics , trent university in peterborough , ontario , canada , have investigated the old adage that it 's better to give than receive .

加拿大安大略省彼得伯勒，特伦特大学经济系的makarvin和byronlew开始对老谚语：给予比得到更幸福进行调查。

Whether this proposition translates to the national level is open to question , but arvin and lew hoped to confirm that it is indeed the case by looking at the foreign aid disbursements of nine donor countries in europe and using general measures of happiness among a nation 's citizens .

这个议题是否可以转换到国民水平是一个开放性的问题，但是arvin和lew通过审视欧洲的九个捐赠的国家对外援助，以及采用一种通常的幸福感的考量方式对国民的幸福感进行评估，希望以此能证实这个议题。