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　　I’m trying to limit my spending right now because I’m saving up for a deposit to buy a house.

　　我在節省開支，因為我想存錢買房子。

　　‘Thrift’ is not a simple idea to define. It’s to do with living a simple life free from the need to constantly buy the latest products. It's an idea connected to frugality - being careful not to spend too much money.

　　“節儉”不太好下定義。它是指過簡單的生活，而不是總想著買最新產品。它與“樸素”有關，即花錢很仔細。

　　Today’s consumer culture encourages us to ‘spend, spend, spend’, but it hasn’t always been that way. The Victorians for example told people to ‘save up for a rainy day’, meaning to keep some money back in case of unforeseen emergencies. Once people had enough to meet their kind of basic needs there was this kind of moral slide into consumerism. There’s no point denying that, certainly in the developed world, there’s been a rise in consumer capitalism, that’s just a truism, but thrift hasn’t declined.

　　現在的消費文化鼓勵我們買買買，但以前不是這樣的。以前人們常說“有備無患，未雨綢繆”，意思是存點錢以備不時之需。人們一旦有足夠的錢滿足基本需要，就會出現消費主義的道德滑坡。毫無疑問，在發達國家，消費資本主義已興起，這是不言自明的事實，但是仍有人很節儉。

　　上文改述：In modern times, people’s motivation to save up and be thrifty declined once they had enough to meet their basic needs - the basic necessities needed to survive, like food, clothes and shelter and nothing extra. Once these basic needs were satisfied, people moved away from thrift into consumerism, the desire to buy ‘luxury’ products which were not absolutely necessary. According to some, this created a moral slide – a decrease in the standards of behaving in good, fair and honest ways.

　　現在，一旦人們的基本需要——生存必需品，比如食物、衣服、住所——得到滿足，省錢和節儉的動力就會下降。一旦滿足了基本需求，人們就會從節儉走向消費主義，想買并不必要的奢侈品。有些人認為這產生了一種道德滑坡：良好、恰當、誠實的行為標準的降低。

　　又一種改述：In recent times, people’s ability to meet their basic needs have reduced the importance of ‘thrift’, which some believe has created a moral slide – a reduction in standards of moral behaviour.

　　現在，人們滿足基本需要——生存必需品比如吃喝住——的能力提高，削弱了節儉的重要性。有人認為這導致道德滑坡——道德行為標準的下降。

　　改述/同義替換匯總：

　　today, in modern times, in recent times

　　consumer culture, consumerism

　　basic needs, necessities, necessary

　　meet basic needs= basic needs are satisfied

　　the motivation to be thrifty declined, ...have reduced the importance of thrift

　　moral slide, move away from thrift into consumerism

　　decline, decrease, reduce, reduction

　　moral behaviour= behave in good, fair, and honest ways

　　沒用的知識有很多：

　　What percentage of people in the UK have less than £1000 in savings?

　　How many British people had savings of under £1000?

　　The answer is 15%.