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10．Spend Wisely

10．精打细算

Growing inflationary pressure on the Chinese mainland, led by rising food prices,is driving mainland buyers to HongKong to fill their shopping carts.

由于物价飞涨，不断增长的通货膨胀压力迫使一些大陆居民选择赴港购物。

More and more residents in Guangdong province, especially Shenzhen, have in the past few weeks been queuing to crossthe border into Hong Kong to buy sugar, salt, soybean sauce and even tissuepaper in bulk to cushion increasing pressure from rising food prices at home.

在过去的几周内，由于本地物价上涨幅度较大，越来越多的广东居民，尤其是深圳居民，在通关口岸处排起长龙，前往香港大批采购白糖、食盐、酱油，甚至是餐巾纸等日用品。

While prices are rising so fast, manypeople are worrying out ways to cut down their expenditures.

由于物价增长过快，许多人开始千方百计地寻求节省开支的妙招。

The food price surge in China has maderesidents with low incomes feel serious financial pressure and forced them tospend wisely.

食品价格上涨使低收入群体感到经济压力培增，他们不得不精打细算了。

The collection provides tips such aschoosing local and seasonal products, avoiding buying vegetables on rainy orsnowy days when higher transport costs increase prices, using e-commercewebsites for purchases, and planting vegetables on the balcony.

省钱妙招可谓五花八门，比如购买本地出产的应季产品；尽量不在雨雪天买菜，因为天气恶劣时运输费也会增加，到时羊毛全都出在羊身上；通过网上购物；还有在阳台上做“自耕农”。

Some netizens consider buying in bulk tostay within a tight budget.

为了节约开销，一些网民则会选择团购。

With these online tips, many people havebecome experts in cutting household expenses. However, financial pressurecaused by the current round of price hikes still afflicts many Chinese people,just like the situation described in a popular song called China's Price.

有了这些网络上的省钱宝典支招，很多人已经深得节省花销、精明度日之道了。但物价上涨所带来的经济压力还是使得许多人叫苦不堪，正像那首《中国价》里唱的。

"A student surnamed Guo spent 60,000yuan ($8,996) for college education. He earned 1,000 yuan per month aftergraduation. No house and no car, let alone get married."

“有个学生叫小郭，大学花了六万多；毕业了，找工作，每月工资一千多；没有房，别提车，结婚更是没着落。”

重点讲解

1.spend Wisely 精打细算

例句：If you start early, spend wisely and save diligently, your million dollar dreams are well within reach.
如果你早早的开始，精打细算，那么你的百万富翁的梦想迟早会实现。

2.inflationary pressure 通货膨胀压力

例句：But underlying inflationary pressure is still extremely weak and is likely to remain so, particularly given the rapid and on going deterioration in the labour market.
但潜在的通胀压力仍是非常微弱，特别是考虑到迅速而持续恶化的就业市场，这种状况很可能会持续下去。
3.cut down 削减；减少
例句：Avoid stress foods and cut down on sugar and salt.
避免食用压力食品，降低糖和盐的食用量。

4.financial pressure 财政压力

例句：And even if Google is behaving honorably now, it is creating a system full of temptations should the company ever come under financial pressure.
即使谷歌现在的表现受人尊敬，但要建立一个充满诱惑的系统，公司总是有可能受到财政压力。