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The tight budgets of retirees such as Makoto Miyakawa, a 71-year-old who lives near Yokohama,
生活在横滨附近的71岁的Makoto Miyakawa等退休者经济拮据，
are a big part of the reason Japan's annual economic growth has averaged an anemic 0.9 percent since 2000, about a third of what it was in the previous two decades.
是日本自2000年以来年均经济增长乏力仅为0.9%的主要原因，与过去的20年相比，仅为经济增长的三分之一Qnptanx_huBOR。
Miyakawa says his wife controls the family purse strings, and after he retired she decided to cut his monthly allowance in half, to the equivalent of $10 a day.
Miyakawa说，他的妻子掌握着家里的经济大权w.kPc#Do(50zgh@cGyz。退休后，她决定将他的每月津贴减半，相当于每天10美元@K0fCrK-=h!rh2;t^AS。
(She's quick to remind him, he says, that the neighbors' husbands get less.)
（他说，妻子很快提醒他，邻居们的丈夫每月津贴越来越少F!0W._(Grnr0(Aoq!。）
The couple are careful about spending because they don't want to outlive their money or end up facing medical bills they can't afford.
这对夫妇花钱很小心，因为他们不想落到没钱花的地步，也不想最终负担不起医疗费用kW725o42R)CqJ,9TU9L。
"Everybody wants to go out fast, but you have no control over that," he says.
他说：“谁都想快点出院，但你没办法控制这个O_&=3Uvq2dgl[nn-。”

If there are any winners in all of this, it's Japan's discount retailers, which are thriving.
如果说这一切能有赢家的话，那就是日本的折扣零售商，他们正在蓬勃发展r|jgyJ~wRz8Z1Qt+。
Nitori Holdings Co., a budget furniture store with the ubiquitous catchphrase "More than you paid for" (it's cooler in Japanese),
Nitori集团是一家廉价家具店，其流行口号是“物超所值”（在日语中的表达更炫酷）p=dUmf(CBYZZSq7。
has grown into one of the country's top 10 retailers, adding more than three stores a month for years.
现在，该集团已经成长为日本十大零售商之一，多年来每月新增三家以上的商店Kn504B!CIGDe[wRf。
And Japan's 100-yen shops, the equivalent of dollar stores, which were mostly unheard of until the late 1990s,
日本的100日元店，相当于一元店，直到20世纪90年代末才出现^[O2Y7CC&hbdo。
now have almost 7,000 outlets pulling in almost $7 billion in annual sales.
现在，这种店铺有近7000家，年销售额接近70亿美元XM^*PmO9^aL.2;RgpD。
"There's no reason," says one fan, 75-year-old Naoko Ishikawa, "to feel embarrassed about shopping at a 100-yen store anymore."
75岁的Naoko Ishikawa是100日元店的粉丝，她说：“没有理由再为在一家100日元店购物感到尴尬了+F^1,n&fz.。

重点讲解

1.decided to 决定；决定做

It's the first time farmers have decided to organize.

这是农场主首次决定组织起来gX72KVoe%0pv0qs。

2.end up 结束；完事

If you always give in to others you will end up feeling like a doormat.

如果你总是屈服于人，你最终会觉得自己像一个受气包HSlNL~zMYXy-cyysbF。

3.unheard of 前所未闻的；没有听说过的

It's almost unheard of in France for a top politician not to come from the social elite.

在法国，大牌政客非社会精英阶层出身的几乎闻所未闻VhS)2@ew]FZS3x。

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