Name: 把錢花在時間上會讓你快樂BBC 新聞回顧 (Money spent on time makes you happy: BBC News Review)
Uploaded: 2025-06-17T15:43:49.000Z
Duration: 8 min 15 s

來自 BBC Learning English 的新聞回顧。

Hello and welcome to News Review, the programme where we show you how to use the language from the latest news stories in your everyday English.

您好，歡迎收看《新聞回顧》，我們將在節目中教您如何在日常英語中使用最新新聞報道中的語言。

I'm Dan and joining me today is Catherine.

我是丹，今天和我一起的是凱瑟琳。

Today's story, Dan, is about two of everyone's most valuable resources, that is money and time.

今天，丹講述的是每個人最寶貴的兩種資源，即金錢和時間。

I certainly do not have enough of either.

我當然沒有足夠的這兩樣東西。

OK, let's go to this Radio 4 bulletin to hear more.

好了，讓我們收聽第四電臺的新聞簡報，瞭解更多資訊。

The old adage that money can't buy you happiness has been put to the test by scientists in Canada.

金錢買不來幸福，這句古老的諺語已經被加拿大的科學家們驗證過了。

They discovered that when you use money to free up time, by paying someone to do your chores, for example, you're more likely to feel happy than if you spend it on material goods.

他們發現，當你用錢來釋放時間，比如花錢僱人幫你做家務時，你會比把錢花在物質產品上更容易感到快樂。

So Canadian scientists there have discovered that when we use money to buy time, to get things done so we have more time, that makes us happier than using money to buy things.

是以，加拿大科學家發現，當我們用錢來購買時間，把事情做完，這樣我們就有更多的時間，這比用錢來買東西更能讓我們感到快樂。

So, Dan, next time you're thinking of buying a new pair of shoes, spend your money not on the shoes, buy someone in to do some cleaning for you and you'll be much happier.

所以，丹，下次你想買雙新鞋的時候，不要把錢花在鞋子上，請人來幫你做清潔，你會更開心的。

That actually sounds like a really, really good idea. Thank you. I'll do that.

這聽起來真的是個非常非常好的主意。Thank you.我會的

So you've been looking around at the news for three words and expressions that we can use to understand and talk about this story. What have you found?

所以，你一直在新聞中尋找我們可以用來理解和談論這個故事的三個單詞和表達方式。你發現了什麼？

I have found chores, underrated and outsourcing.

我發現，家務勞動被低估了，而且是外包的。

家務勞動，被低估，被外包。好的。

We can. Let's go to the i and the headline is Revealed. Paying others to do your chores is the secret to happiness.

我們可以。讓我們進入 i 版，標題揭曉。花錢讓別人幫你做家務是幸福的祕訣。

OK, so chores are things that you do at home. It's work, jobs that you do around the house. Most people don't like doing them but you have to do them to keep your house running smoothly. So things like doing the washing up, putting the rubbish out, vacuuming or cleaning. Homework?

好了，家務就是你在家裡做的事情。它是工作，是你在家裡做的事情。大多數人都不喜歡做家務，但你必須做家務來保證家裡的正常運轉。比如洗衣服、倒垃圾、吸塵或打掃衛生。家庭作業？

It's normally to do, can be a chore in a different sense but it's generally sort of domestic tasks.

這通常是要做的事，也可以是不同意義上的苦差事，但一般都是家務活。

好的這是一個英國英語單詞嗎？

English and American culture where kids in particular have to do jobs around the house and they call them chores. But we know and use the word in English, British

在英美文化中，孩子們尤其要做家務，他們稱之為家務活。但在英語中，我們知道並使用這個詞。

English as well. OK. Also any chores you don't like doing at home?

英語也是。好的。你在家有什麼不喜歡做的家務嗎？

是啊，我不這樣做。不，你呢？

Well, I actually have a chore that I really like and that is washing clothes.

其實，我有一項非常喜歡的家務活，那就是洗衣服。

There's something really satisfying about emptying your laundry basket. So while it's a chore for some people, it's actually a pleasure for me.

清空洗衣籃有一種非常滿足的感覺。是以，雖然這對有些人來說是件苦差事，但對我來說卻是一種享受。

OK. And is there a second meaning to this word?

好的這個詞還有第二個意思嗎？

There is actually and I've just sort of touched on it there. If something is a chore, it's something that you have to do, maybe not at home, but you don't like it, it's boring, it's repetitive but necessary.

實際上是這樣的，我剛才也提到了。如果某件事情是一件苦差事，它就是你必須要做的事情，也許不是在家裡做，但你不喜歡它，它很無聊，它是重複的，但又是必要的。

So, for example, admin that you have to do at work. Maybe you've got to fill in forms a lot and it's boring and you don't like it, you don't look forward to it but you have to do it. It's a chore. It's a bit like saying something's boring.

例如，你在工作中必須做的行政工作。也許你經常要填表格，這很無聊，你不喜歡，也不期待，但你不得不做。這是一件苦差事。這有點像說某件事很無聊。

OK, like when I'm standing in the queue in the cafeteria waiting to get breakfast.

好吧，比如我在自助餐廳排隊等著吃早餐的時候。

No, standing in a queue when you're hungry is a real chore.

不，肚子餓的時候排隊真是件苦差事。

We do. You can have an errand if you've got to go and do something and bring something or just a job. A chore, a household chore is a household job.

我們會的。如果你要去做什麼事，帶什麼東西，或者只是一份工作，你可以有一份差事。家務就是家務活。

OK, so before this programme becomes a chore for our listeners, let's move on to our second headline.

好了，在這個節目成為聽眾的苦差事之前，讓我們繼續看第二個標題。

好了，讓我們來看看邁克。標題是

This is the best, most underrated way to make your money feel worth more, according to science.

根據科學研究，這是讓你覺得錢更值錢的最好、最被低估的方法。

Underrated, not given the high level of approval that it deserves.

被低估了，沒有得到應有的高度認可。

Exactly that. So if something's really good but people don't recognise that it's really good, it's underrated. They underrate it.

沒錯所以，如果一件東西真的很好，但人們卻不承認它真的很好，那它就被低估了。他們低估了它。

Or Vincent van Gogh, as I often call him.

或者文森特-梵高，我經常這樣稱呼他。

And he was an artist who never sold any work during his life. Nobody bought his paintings but now if you want a van Gogh, you have to pay millions for one. So we can say that during his lifetime, Vincent van Gogh was underrated as an artist.

他是一位一生從未賣出過任何作品的藝術家。沒有人買他的畫，但現在如果你想要一幅梵高的畫，你必須花幾百萬才能買到。是以我們可以說，文森特-凡高生前被低估了。

OK, but paying millions and millions and millions for a painting, don't you think that's maybe too much?

好吧，但是花幾百萬、幾百萬、幾百萬買一幅畫，你不覺得太多了嗎？

I think you're trying to say some people think he's overrated. So overrated is the opposite. When people give, when we think that something's better than it actually is, we can say it's overrated.

我想你是想說有些人認為他被高估了。高估恰恰相反。當人們給予，當我們認為某樣東西比實際更好時，我們就可以說它被高估了。

比如最新的超級食品流行趨勢？

Goji berries? So yes, well I was expecting a lot. Maybe I was expecting too much. I had a bowl of goji berries. I was expecting to feel ten years younger. I ate them and really nothing happened.

枸杞？所以是的，我的期望很高。也許是我期望太高了。我吃了一碗枸杞。我以為自己會年輕十歲。我吃了之後，真的什麼都沒發生。

Oh, it's a terrible shame. So completely overrated, goji berries.

Alright, let's have a look at our third headline, please.

OK, so looking at now the Vancouver courier, outsourcing chores makes us happier so why aren't we doing it?

好吧，那麼看看現在的溫哥華快遞員，外包家務會讓我們更快樂，那我們為什麼不這樣做呢？

Outsourcing – paying someone else to do your tasks for you.

外包--花錢讓別人替你完成任務。

Yes, and it comes from the world of business and industry in particular.

When a business, for example, clothing sales companies, all the high street shops in the West, most of them sell clothes but they don't make them.

當一個企業，例如服裝銷售公司，西方所有的高街商店，大部分都是賣衣服的，但他們並不生產衣服。

They design them but they outsource, in other words, they get another factory to make the clothes that they can sell.

他們設計衣服，但將其外包，換句話說，他們讓另一家工廠生產他們可以出售的衣服。

So it's where you get, we can also use it in maybe in a big office where you they have a canteen. The office doesn't actually run the canteen. Another company runs the office canteen so the office outsources the canteen.

是以，我們也可以把它用在大辦公室的食堂裡。實際上，辦公室並不經營食堂。另一家公司經營辦公室食堂，所以辦公室將食堂外包。

Or like a hotel outsourcing the cleaning of its bed sheets to a smaller laundry company.

或者就像一家酒店將床單的清洗工作外包給一家較小的洗衣公司。

But is this something I can use on a personal level? Would I say like I outsource the cleaning of my house to somebody?

但這是我個人可以使用的嗎？我會把家裡的清潔工作外包給別人嗎？

Yeah, you could say it and it would be understandable but slightly over formal so you'd be more likely to use it something you'd say like I had the cleaning done or I had my windows cleaned, something like that.

是的，你可以這麼說，而且可以理解，但稍微有點過於正式，所以你更有可能使用它，比如說 "我做了清潔 "或 "我擦了窗戶 "之類的。

Hang on a minute, to have something done, that's a grammar structure, isn't it? What's it called?

等一下，"完成某事 "是一種語法結構，不是嗎？叫什麼來著？

It's called the causative, Dan. To have something done or to get something done is a way of saying you got somebody to do something for you.

這叫因果關係，丹。"讓人做某事 "或 "讓人做某事" 意思是 "你讓別人為你做某事

I see. Have plus the object plus the past participle.

我明白了。有加賓語加過去分詞。

Not just vocabulary but grammar too on this week's News Review.

本週的 "新聞回顧 "不僅有詞彙，還有文法。

Alright, so before we recap our vocabulary, let's go to our Facebook challenge. Now, scientists have discovered that the old adage that money can't buy you happiness may be incorrect. But which of these is not a synonym for adage? Is it...

好了，在回顧我們的詞彙之前，讓我們先來看看我們的 Facebook 挑戰。科學家發現，"金錢買不來幸福 "這句老話可能是錯誤的。但這些詞中哪個不是諺語的同義詞？是...

Mixed response this week. Some people got caught out but for everybody who, including Abbas Raid,

本週反響不一。有些人被逮個正著，但對包括阿巴斯-雷德在內的所有人來說，這都是好事、

Roberto Ventimiglia and Dirk Gutschmann, who said catchphrase is a phrase that's connected with a particular person, especially someone famous such as a television entertainer. Catchphrase is not the same as adage.

Roberto Ventimiglia 和 Dirk Gutschmann 說，口頭禪是與某個特定的人，尤其是電視藝人等名人有關的短語。口頭禪與格言不同。

Very nice. Good. Alright, could you please recap the vocabulary for us?

非常好。很好好了，你能為我們複述一下詞彙嗎？

I could. We had chores, which means boring but necessary tasks, underrated, not given the high level of approval that it deserves and outsourcing, paying someone else to do your tasks for you.

我可以。我們有家務活，這意味著無聊但必要的任務，被低估了，沒有得到應有的高度認可，還有外包，花錢讓別人幫你做任務。

Thank you very much. Now, if you'd like to test yourself on today's vocabulary, there's a quiz that you can take on our website bbclearningenglish.com, where you'll also find lots of other fantastic resources and videos to help you learn

非常感謝。現在，如果您想測試一下自己今天的詞彙量，可以在我們的網站 bbclearningenglish.com 上進行測驗。

English. Thank you very much for joining us and goodbye.

英語。非常感謝您的參與，再見。