情景会话口袋书人际篇119:投资理财(3)

 　　9. We should regulate our spending anyhow.

　　不管怎样我们必须控制花费。

　　还能这样说：

　　Anyway, I think we need spend less.

　　Anyhow, we ought to control our spending.

　　应用解析：

　　anyhow的同义词有：anyway, at any rate, in any case, in any event。

　　例如：Anyway you can try. 至少你可以试试。

　　10. From now on, we have to manage on less than ￡500 a month.

　　从现在起，我们一个月的花费必须少于500英镑。

　　还能这样说：

　　From now on, we need spend less than ￡500 a month.

　　From now on, our monthly spending is ￡500 at most.

　　应用解析：

　　any the less 更少一点，更小一点；

　　far less 远不及；

　　much less 何况，更不用说；

　　no less 有……之多，多达和……一样；不亚于

　　11. We have to save money to pay the loans.

　　我们必须省钱还贷款。

　　还能这样说：

　　If we want to pay the loans, we should start saving money.

　　It is necessary for us to save money and pay the loans.

　　谚语：

　　He who pays the piper calls the tune¹.

　　花钱的人说话算数。

　　12. It's foolish to speculate in the stock market.

　　炒股票是不明智的。

　　还能这样说：

　　It's a high risk investment in stock trading.

　　You must take a lot of risk if you speculate in the stock market.

　　应用解析：

　　keep in stock 有货；备有；

　　out of stock 没有现货，脱销；

　　take stock of 估量，观察

1 tune   

n.调子；和谐，协调；v.调音，调节，调整

参考例句：

• He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
• The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。