英国物价大幅上升，推高生涯本，英国人以为精打细算比以往任什么时候刻都主要啦。本文浅议提升资源功效和减少开支的办法啦。
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来源Learningdragon
辞汇finance 财政治理
We all want to save money, and with the cost of living on the rise in the UK, it’s become more important than ever to watch what we spend. The biggest increase in our expenditure at the moment is on energy – the oil, gas and electricity we use to power and heat our homes. That’s why many of us are looking at ways to save energy so we don’t have to shell out on huge fuel bills.
咋们都想省，随着英国生涯本的上升，精打细算变得比以往任什么时候刻都主要啦。现在，咋们最大的支付增添是在资源上——咋们用于全家供电和取暖和的石油.自然气和电力啦。这即是为什么咋们中的许多人都在寻找节约资源的办法，这样咋们就没必-要为巨大的燃料账单买单啦。
Making our home more energy efficient is the obvious way to save money. To try to achieve this, new homes in the UK will be banned from installing new gas and oil boilers by 2025. Having a heat pump instead can help save energy, but they’re unaffordable for many people, unless they’ve got spare cash stashed away.
让咋们的家更节能是不言而喻的省办法啦。为了完成这一目的，到2025年，英国的新居屋将不行以安置新的燃气和石油汽锅啦。运用热泵能够帮-助节约资源，但对许多人来说是肩负不起的，除非你们有过剩的现金啦。
If your home feels like a money pit, there are some low-budget solutions you can turn to to lower your energy usage. Warm air escapes our homes easily, so adding draught excluders or a rolled-up towel to block these gaps will help. Investing in new double glazing will certainly insulate your home better, but if it is too costly, it might be worth using some heavy curtains to stop the heat escaping. Switching off lights is also a good idea.
如果你的家感受像一位款项坑，有一些低预算预估的处置计划，你能够转向下降你的资源运用啦。温顺的空-气很简易从咋们的家里逸出，因此增添透风消除器或者卷起的毛巾来堵住这些裂缝将会有所帮-助啦。投资新的双层玻璃一定会使你的家隔热更好，但若她太珍贵，应该值得运用一些厚窗帘来阻拦热量逃逸啦。关灯也是一位好主意啦。
But there are lots of other little things we can do around the home that will help save energy, don’t cost a fortune and that just require tweaks to our behaviour. They could be as good as installing, fitting or making anything. Put lids on pots and pans when cooking – the food will be ready quicker. Use a microwave to reheat food rather than the oven. Don’t overfill your kettle when boiling water, and don’t leave electrical items on standby. Jo Patterson from Cardiff University’s Welsh School of Architecture told the BBC that a combination of small measures like these could reduce household energy bills by about 10%.
可是咋们能够在家里做许多其余的小事情，这些事情将有助于节约资源，不破费一大笔，而且只要要调治咋们的行-动啦。她们能够像安置.安置或者制作任何东-西一样好啦。做饭时把锅子宁静底锅盖上，食物会很快做好啦。用微波炉加热食物，不-要用烤箱啦。烧水时不-要把水壶装满水，也不-要让电器处于待机状态啦。卡迪夫大-学威尔士建-筑学院的乔·帕特森通知BBC，这些小办法的结合能够减少也许10%的全家资源账单啦。
So, we’re being encouraged to be more fuel efficient. But our main aim isn’t just financial – we need to do it to reduce our carbon footprint, so that our energy usage doesn’t cost the Earth.
因而，咋们被激励越发省油啦。但咋们的主要目的不仅仅是财政上的——咋们需要这样做来减少咋们的碳行踪，这样咋们的资源运用不会让地支出价值啦。
辞汇表
save 节约，节约
cost of living 用饭用
spend 花（）
expenditure 支付
shell out （一样平常指不宁愿地）支出（一大笔）
bill 账单
unaffordable 支出不起的
stash 潜藏，寄存
money pit 大坑，需要不停投的无底洞啦。
low-budget 低本的
invest 投资（购置）
costly 珍贵的
cost a fortune 极为珍贵，花大价
tweak 稍做调治，稍稍改良
measure 办法
reduce 下降，减少
financial 经济上的
cost the Earth 让地支出价值 (cost the earth 的本心是 “破费一大笔吗”)啦。
考试与训练
1. 阅读课文并回覆疑啦。
1. What will be banned from being installed in new homes in the UK by 2025?
2. How can you stop warm air escaping from your home?
3. Why might it be difficult for someone to install a heat pump or double gazing?
4. As well as helping our finances, what is the other benefit of using energy more efficiently?
5. True or false? Putting more water than you need in your kettle is not energy-efficient.
2. 选择意义适当的单词或者词组来完结以下句子啦。
1. I’m going to my brother’s wedding, so I have to _______ for a new suit.
shelling out shell out out shell shells out
2. It’s quite _______ to take the train to London, so we’re going by bus instead.
financial expenditure costly cost the earth
3. Our food _______ keeps rising, so I’m going to start buying supermarket branded goods.
measures invest cost of living bill
4. My holiday to Spain _______, but it was well worth it拉！
cost a fortune cost a fortunately cost the fortune costs a fortune
5. My grandma _______ all her money under the bed rather than put it into a bank.
finance stashed measures unaffordable
谜底
1. 阅读课文并回覆疑啦。
1. What will be banned from being installed in new homes in the UK by 2025?
New homes in the UK will be banned from installing new gas and oil boilers by 2025.
2. How can you stop warm air escaping from your home?
Adding draught excluders or a rolled-up towel to block gaps, or using heavy curtains will help.
3. Why might it be difficult for someone to install a heat pump or double gazing?
Heat pumps and double glazing can be expensive to install.
4. As well as helping our finances, what is the other benefit of using energy more efficiently?
It can reduce our carbon footprint.
5. True or false? Putting more water than you need in your kettle is not energy-efficient.
True. Not overfilling your kettle
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