英伦广角 2014-08-02 房价涨 英国“啃老族”激增 半数成人与父母同住

 At an office at the coastal¹ country housing association headquarters in Redcar, of the 11 people in today, 9 are aged² 20 to 34, and 4 of them are still living at home with their parents, it's becoming a national issue. In England alone, a quarter of young workers almost 2 million people have yet to move out to a place of their own, the figures are much higher in some areas including Castle point essex, Knowsley Merseyside and Solihull, and almost half of them blame a lack of affordable³ housing.

These figures show us two things, large numbers of young working people are living with their parents and most of them don't want to.

The government says it is addressing the issue with the help to buy scheme and more affordable homes. Louis Thomson is one of those who's benefiting.

I'm a 26-year old, so i have been saving up many many years now, many reasons i won't be able to get a house, i managed to get one with 5% deposit, if it wasn't for that, i literally⁴ wouldn't have been able to move out.

Of the two older workers in this office, one has a 30-year old son, working and living at home. That means basically at the moment i can't retire, because we have to provide a larger property in order for him to have his own room, to have his own space, and as such we count down tight.

The homeless charity shelter says we're creating a clipped wing generation.

We have seen a large rise particularly in recent years the number of young adults living at home with their parents, it's now one in four, what we are seeing young adults in fact * you can work hard, you can save biggest still be living as a teenager in your childhood bedroom, and that's because frankly⁵ we haven't built enough affordable homes and that's what politicians really got to focus on that.

At the end of another day, the workers in the office head home, four of them to homes they'd like to have moved out of years ago.

1 coastal   

adj.海岸的，沿海的，沿岸的

参考例句：

• The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
• This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。

2 aged   

adj.年老的，陈年的

参考例句：

• He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了，也老点了。
• He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老，然而记忆力还好。

3 affordable   

adj.支付得起的，不太昂贵的

参考例句：

• The rent for the four-roomed house is affordable.四居室房屋的房租付得起。
• There are few affordable apartments in big cities.在大城市中没有几所公寓是便宜的。

4 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

5 frankly   

adv.坦白地，直率地；坦率地说

参考例句：

• To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all.老实说，我一点也不赞成这个主意。
• Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform.坦率地说，我不反对改革。