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美语情景对话第1034期:Saving for the Future 为未来存钱

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So you do have some extra money that you can put away, you would say?
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I think maybe everyone has extra money because you just use less.
你有多余的钱可以存起来，对吧？

So you just decide in advance to put a little bit aside whether it's 5 dollars or 50.
我认为每个人都可以有多余的钱，只要少花些就可以了。

So, like, change your priorities and spend less money on other things and more towards your pension?
你可以提前决定把一小部分钱存起来，无论那是5美元还是50美元。

Exactly. Exactly.
比如改变事情的优先顺序，在其他事情上少花点钱，多存点养老金？

Right. So what would you cut? If you had something that you have to stop putting your money towards, what would it be?
没错，没错。

I don't know if there's anything to cut because I'm not really buying much.
好。那你会缩减哪部分开支？如果你一定要缩减某件事的花费，你会减少哪部分的开支？

I couldn't cut food. That's primary important. I don't know. What would you cut?
我不知道有没有可以缩减的开支，因为本来我买的东西就不多。

Clothing, maybe. You know, I'm a woman so I like to wear fashionable clothes so that would be one of them, and traveling.
我不能减少饮食的花费，因为这是最重要的事。我没有头绪。你会减少哪部分的开支？

I love traveling, so maybe take one less holiday a year and put that towards my pension.
可能是衣服。我是女人，我喜欢时尚的衣服，我可能会减少在买衣服上的花费，另外就是减少旅行费用。

One less holiday than one.
我喜欢旅行，也许我可以减少每年的假期，然后多存些养老金。

Yeah, that's right.
减少假期。

Stop going on a holiday. How about have lots of kids? Go back to that idea.
对，没错。

Yeah. Yeah.
不去度假。多生几个孩子怎么样？我们继续来讨论这个主意。

Well, I actually come from a family with a lot of kids.
好。嗯。

At the moment, that's not working well for my parents because I'm not sending any money to them. But maybe in the future.
实际上我来自孩子很多的家庭。

So that's the thing, you know. It works in a chain.
目前我父母还没有受益，因为我还没有给父母钱，不过未来我会的。

I have to worry about my parents, so I cannot really be worrying about my own pension.
事情就是这样。这是连锁反应。

So it's like a continuous burden that you give to your children. And it never ends.
我非常担心我的父母，我不能仅仅担心我自己的养老金。

Well, yeah, we're really mixing up with other things.
这是施加给孩子的持续不断的负担。永远不会结束。

I don't think we're really getting an answer though as to what's best.
嗯，这和其他事情混在一起了。

Well, there are other options as well, you know.
我认为就哪种方法是最佳方法来说，我们没有找到答案。

You can live a simple life where you can grow food from your land and—
嗯，还有其他选择。

And then you wouldn't need necessarily to save so much.
你可以选择简单的生活方式，在自己的土地上种植食物。

Yeah, be a healthy person and you don't have to—take really good care of your body
这样就不必存太多钱了。

and then you don't have to go to a place where a nurse has to take care of you at an early age, you know.
对，保持身体健康，好好照顾自己的身体，

I think that's what I want to do.
这样你在年老以后就不用去那个由护理人员照顾你的地方了。

I think going for the simple life, trying to create the situation right now to enable like retirement age to spend in such a simple place
我认为那正是我想做的事情。

where everything is taken care of itself and the excess money isn't necessarily needed.
我想过简单的生活，现在开始尝试去创造一种环境，到退休时可以在简单的地方生活，

I think that's what we should do.
过自给自足的生活，不需要额外的钱。

Awesome.
我想那是我们应该做的。

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重点讲解：
1. put away 把…收起；放好；
例句：He has a nice sum of money put away.
他存了一大笔钱~5Xlu9y[Pb,Kqx9^SCGP。
2. in advance 提前；事先；
例句：I ought to have told you in advance.
我应该事先告诉你7NG)t;f#NeJR。
3. put aside 把…放在一边；（暂时）丢开；把…留作以后使用；
例句：He has a little money put aside for a rainy day.
他积蓄了一点钱以备不时之需^32j+Qu]gVppH;!5M1af。
4. take care of 照顾；照看；看护；
例句：She helped take care of her aged grandmother.
她帮助照料年迈的祖母1JDfs7t_YmX~n|U。

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