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@ 50450 房奴
A 附近新開了一家酒吧,聽說很不錯,下班後一起去看看怎麼樣?
fùjìn xīn kāi le yī jiā jiǔbā, tīngshuō hěn bùcuò, xiàbān hòu yīqǐ qù kànkan zěnmeyàng?
A new bar just opened near here. I hear it's really good. How about we check it out after work?
B 好啊,算我一個。小劉,你呢?
hǎoa, suàn wǒ yī ge. Xiǎo Liú , nǐ ne?
Great! Count me in. What about you, Xiao Liu?
C 我就不去了,你們倆去吧。
wǒ jiù bù qù le, nǐmenliǎ qù ba.
I'm not going. You guys go.
B 哎呀,別掃興了,去吧,去吧,你以前不是很喜歡泡吧的嗎?
āiyā, bié sǎoxìng le, qù ba, qù ba, nǐ yǐqián bù shì hěn xǐhuan pàobā de ma?
Oh, don't be such a spoilsport. Come on, go. Didn't you always used to love bar-hopping?
C 哎,最近窮得叮噹響,家裡都快揭不開鍋了。除非……你們買單?
āi, zuìjìn qióng de dīngdāngxiǎng, jiālǐ dōu kuài jiēbukāiguō le. chúfēi......nǐmen mǎidān?
Agh, lately I'm poor as dirt, almost totally broke! Unless...you guys are paying?
A 切!你少哭窮了。誰不知道你是打工皇帝,做兼職都賺得比我們多。
qiē! nǐ shǎo kūqióng le. shéi bù zhīdào nǐ shì dǎgōng huángdì, zuò jiānzhí dōu zhuàn de bǐ wǒmen duō.
Puh-leeze, don't cry poor with us. Everyone knows you're the king of part-time work. Working multiple jobs, you earn more than we do!
C 賺得多有什麼用?我現在可是房奴。每個月掙的錢,一半都用來還貸款了,剩下的維持日常開銷都不夠,哪還有錢去奢侈?
zhuàn de duō yǒu shénme yòng? wǒ xiànzài kěshì fángnú. měigeyuè zhèng de qián, yībàn dōu yònglái huán dàikuǎn le, shèngxià de wéichí rìcháng kāixiāo dōu bùgòu, nǎ hái yǒu qián qù shēchǐ?
What good does it do me to earn a lot? I'm a slave to my home now. Every month, half the money I make goes to pay down my mortgage. What's left isn't enough to cover my daily expenses. Where would I get the money to live the high life?
B 你買房了?不是說今年不打算結婚嗎?這麼急著買房做什麼?
nǐ mǎifáng le? bùshì shuō jīnnián bù dǎsuàn jiéhūn ma? zhème jí zhe mǎifáng zuò shénme?
You bought a house? Didn't you say you weren't planning to get married this year? How come you're in such a rush to buy a house?
C 前一陣子政府說要清算土地增值稅,我擔心房產商會抬高房價,心想反正早晚都得買房,雖然現在房價高得離譜,可再過幾年還不知道漲成什麼樣子呢,所以就咬咬牙買了。
qiányīzhènzi zhèngfǔ shuō yào qīngsuàn tǔdìzēngzhíshuì, wǒ dānxīn fángchǎnshāng huì táigāo fángjià, xīnxiǎng fǎnzhèng zǎowǎn dōu děi mǎifáng, suīrán xiànzài fángjià gāo de lípǔ, kě zài guò jǐnián hái bù zhīdào zhǎng chéng shénmayàngzi ne, suǒyǐ jiù yǎoyao yá mǎi le.
The government was talking about liquidating the value-added tax on land. I was worried that realtors would raise the prices sky high. I figured, I'm going to have to buy a house sooner or later anyway. Although housing prices were already ridiculously high, I didn't know what they would look like in a few years. So I just gritted my teeth and bought a house.
A 你可真是沉不住氣啊,政府不是一直在採取措施降低房價嗎?今年或者明年肯定能降下來,到時候再買也不遲啊。
nǐ kě zhēnshì chénbuzhùqì a, zhèngfǔ bùshì yīzhí zài cǎiqǔ cuòshī jiàngdī fángjià ma? jīnnián huòzhě míngnián kěndìng néng jiàng xialai, dàoshíhou zài mǎi yě bùchí a.
You really couldn't control your impulses! Isn't the government always implementing measures to lower housing costs? This year or next year prices will definitely fall. It would be fine to buy then.
C 這幾年,限制房價的政策一條接一條出臺,可房價還不是一天天上漲?據一些經濟學家預言,國內的房價在2020年以前都不會下跌。
zhèjǐnián, xiànzhì fángjià de zhèngcè yītiáo jiē yītiáo chūtái, kě fángjià hái bùshì yītiāntiān shàngzhǎng? jù yīxiē jīngjìxuéjiā yùyán, guónèi de fángjià zài èrlíngèrlíng nián yǐqián dōu bùhuì xiàdiē.
These last few years, price control policies have come out one after another, but housing prices just keep getting higher all the time! According to some economists' predictions, domestic housing prices won't fall before 2020.
B 可是也有經濟學家分析說,08年奧運會以後,房價肯定會跌。
kěshì yě yǒu jīngjìxuéjiā fēnxī shuō, èrlínglíngbā nián Aòyùnhuì yǐhòu, fángjià kěndìng huì diē.
But there are also some economists who say that prices will definitely fall after the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
C 不管是會漲還是會跌,現在房子都已經買了,說什麼都沒用了。
bùguǎn shì huì zhǎng háishi huì diē, xiànzài fángzi dōu yǐjīng mǎi le, shuō shénme dōu méiyòng le.
No matter whether they rise or fall, the house is already bought. There's no point in talking about it.
B 哎,都怪黑心的房地產商唯利是圖,囤售樓盤,虛高房價。要我說啊,就應該像溫州人一樣,個人集資建房,抵制房產開發商牟取暴利。
āi, dōu guài hēixīn de fángdìchǎnshāng wéilìshìtú, túnshòu lóupán, xūgāo fángjià. yào wǒ shuō a, jiù yīnggāi xiàng wēnzhōurén yīyàng, gèrén jízī jiànfáng, dǐzhì fángchǎn kāifāshāng móuqǔ bàolì.
Agh, blame it all on black-hearted real estate developers out to make big profits. They hoard properties, and then sell them at inflated prices. If you ask me, we should learn from the people of Wenzhou. They pool their money to build houses, and boycott housing developers' attempts to make obscene profits.
C 集資建房能不能成功還是個未知數。我倒覺得,政府想辦法多開發點經濟適用房才是解決問題的根本途徑。市場供求平衡了,投機炒房的現象自然會減少,房地產市場也會逐漸迴歸理性。
jízī jiànfáng néngbunéng chénggōng hái shì ge wèizhīshù. wǒ dào juéde, zhèngfǔ xiǎng bànfǎ duō kāifā diǎn jīngjìshìyòngfáng cái shì jiějué wèntí de gēnběn tújìng. shìchǎng gōngqiú pínghéng le, tóujī chǎofáng de xiànxiàng zìrán huì jiǎnshǎo, fángdìchǎnshìchǎng yě huì zhújiàn huíguī lǐxìng.
Whether pooling resources to build houses will succeed is still an unknown. I think that the only really workable way to solve the root of the problem is for the government to develop more affordable housing. After the market evens out, the phenomenon of speculating in housing will naturally whither away. The housing market will gradually return to normal.
A 那可不是短期內能實現的,你們就慢慢等吧。我現在呀,只希望能早點還清貸款,當房奴的滋味可不好受啊。
nà kě bùshì duǎnqī nèi néng shíxiàn de, nǐmen jiù mànmàn děng ba. wǒ xiànzài ya, zhǐ xīwàng néng zǎo diǎn huánqīng dàikuǎn, dàng fángnú de zīwèi kě bù hǎoshòu a.
That's not feasible in the short term. You guys just keep waiting. I, on the other hand, only hope I can pay off my debt as soon as possible. It's no fun being a slave to your house!
Key Vocabulary
掃興 sǎoxìng to ruin someone's happiness
開銷 kāixiāo expenses
清算 qīngsuàn to liquidate, to clear accounts
抬高 táigāo to raise
離譜 lípǔ off the charts, beyond the reasonable
咬牙 yǎoyá to gnash teeth
沉不住氣 chénbuzhùqì to be unable to control one's impulses
限制 xiànzhì to limit, to restrict
出臺 chūtái to promulgate, to appear on stage
黑心 hēixīn black hearted, evil minded
唯利是圖 wéilìshìtú to seek profit
囤售 túnshòu to hoard and to sell
虛高 xūgāo unreasonably high
抵制 dǐzhì to resist
牟取 móuqǔ to seek gain
投機 tóujī to speculate
Supplementary Vocabulary
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