雅思口语/写作素材-省钱/节约

　　雅思口语/写作素材-省钱/节约，本期素材可用于与消费、省钱有关的P3问题，对应“花费超预期的物品”等P2话题。积累话题词汇、准备个人化的素材，有助于提升FC和LR表现从而提高口语总分。下面我们一起来详细看看吧！内容来公众号：G类1对1。

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

　　我在节省开支，因为我想存钱买房子。

　　‘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.

　　“节俭”不太好下定义。它是指过简单的生活，而不是总想着买最新产品。它与“朴素”有关，即花钱很仔细。

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　　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.

　　现在的消费文化鼓励我们买买买，但以前不是这样的。以前人们常说“有备无患，未雨绸缪”，意思是存点钱以备不时之需。人们一旦有足够的钱满足基本需要，就会出现消费主义的道德滑坡。毫无疑问，在发达国家，消费资本主义已兴起，这是不言自明的事实，但是仍有人很节俭。

　　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.

　　现在，一旦人们的基本需要——生存必需品，比如食物、衣服、住所——得到满足，省钱和节俭的动力就会下降。一旦满足了基本需求，人们就会从节俭走向消费主义，想买并不必要的奢侈品。有些人认为这产生了一种道德滑坡：良好、恰当、诚实的行为标准的降低。

　　又一种改述：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.

　　现在，人们满足基本需要——生存必需品比如吃喝住——的能力提高，削弱了节俭的重要性。有人认为这导致道德滑坡——道德行为标准的下降。

　　改述/同义替换汇总：

　　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

　　没用的知识有很多：

　　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%.