We have everything we need in the way of land, brains, wealth, technology.
查词典, in the way of 的意思是: “在……方面”“关于”, 但是我觉得用上面的解释很难把上句译成中文。
in the way of 有时候确实可以译作“在……方面”“在……过程中”：
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I have nothing to do with him in the way of business. 我在商业方面跟他没有任何关系。
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Failure, success, failure again, success again — that's quite normal in the way of scientific experiments. 失败, 成功, 再失败, 再成功, 这在科学实验过程中是很正常的。
但是,你所提出的句子中的 in the way of 却有另外的含义。根据 R. Quirk 等人的解释, in the way of 这个介词短语可以看作是表示同位关系的词语, 在语义上类似于 namely, such as 等。所以, We have everything we need in the way of land, brains, wealth, technology. 可以改写为 We have everything we need: land, brains, wealth, technology. 或 We have land, brains, wealth, technology — in other words everything we need. (我们拥有我们所需要的一切: 土地、智慧、财富和技术。) 根据这种理解, 我们便可以很容易地把 LDEI(p. 360) 中的句子译成中文:
...they expect us...to do whatever they want in the way of painting, decorating and repairs.
……他们要求我们去做他们所需要的任何事情，诸如油漆、装饰和修理。