外國人最想和你聊的時(shí)事話題：住房問題

     There's a growing need for cheap housing in the larger cities.
     大城市對低價(jià)住房的要求越來越迫切了。
     When you rent a house, you pay its owner a fix monthly amount to live there.
     當(dāng)你租房時(shí)，你需要每個(gè)月付給房東固定的租金。
     There is a wide variety of rental housing in China. In the cities, this mostly means apartments.
     在中國，出租的住宅種類繁多。城市中出租的主要是單元公寓住宅。
     The rising demand and the concurrent raising of prices by investors are to blame.
     房地產(chǎn)需求的持續(xù)增長和房地產(chǎn)商不斷提價(jià)是房價(jià)上漲的主要原因。
     It is unrealistic to help each person purchase an apartment of his/her own.
     為每個(gè)人提供購房補(bǔ)貼是不現(xiàn)實(shí)的。
     The real estate industry should focus on developing reasonably priced commercial housing for ordinary people.
     房地產(chǎn)業(yè)應(yīng)重點(diǎn)發(fā)展面向廣大群眾的普通商品住房。
     A whopping 80 percent believe that real estate prices would continue to rise this year, and 30 percent fear it would do so at a greater pace.
     高達(dá)80%的受訪者認(rèn)為今年的房價(jià)還會繼續(xù)攀升，30%的人擔(dān)心今年的漲幅將會更大。
     Many people prefer to live near the center of cities, but because houses there are expensive, they often commute from suburbs.
     許多人比較喜歡住得離市中心近一點(diǎn)，但是因?yàn)槟莾旱姆孔犹F，所以他們經(jīng)常住郊區(qū)上下班往返。
     Mortgage slave is adopted to describe those people whose mortgage payment is more than half of their monthly salary.
     "房奴"一詞被用來描述那些按揭還款超過月薪一半的人。
     Buying a house for most of the people is once in a lifetime decision, which means people decide to do so only after coming across the ideal house.
     買房對于大多數(shù)人來說是個(gè)一輩子的決定，但做出這個(gè)決定的前提是必須要遇到一套理想的房子。
     When you buy a property for the first time, it is usually a small flat, simply because you can't afford a bigger place.
     人們很難負(fù)擔(dān)得起大房子昂貴的房價(jià)，所以第一次買的房子通常都是一些小型的公寓房。
     As you get older and have better jobs and higher pay, and perhaps have a family, then you buy a bigger house and sell your small one; you can keep doing this till you retire, it's like climbing up a ladder.
     隨著年齡的增長，找到理想的工作、特別是隨著收入的提高，組建了家庭以后，人們通常會賣掉原來的小公寓房，轉(zhuǎn)而購買更大一些的住宅。如果你愿意的話，可以一直這樣從小到大地?fù)Q下去，直到退休為止。而這個(gè)過程就像是在爬梯子。
     About 60% of first-time buyers would consider borrowing five times their salary. Four out of five are willing to take on extra long term mortgages and nearly 40% would sign up for riskier interest-only mortgages.
     差不多60%的初次購房者將考慮借自己年薪五倍左右的錢。而80%的人愿意延長還貸期限。更有將近四成的人選擇風(fēng)險(xiǎn)更高的支付利息的貸款方式。
     Nowadays, the proportion of investment into economically affordable housing only accounts for 5 percent of the total, which is far short of the increasing demand for new houses from middle and low-income families.
     目前，經(jīng)濟(jì)適用房的投資比例只占房地產(chǎn)總投資的5%，遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不能滿足中低收入家庭不斷增長的購房需要。
     After years of frothy price growth, these developers are also facing the prospect of a turning point in China's broader property market, especially in the south, a stronghold for many of the biggest developers.
     中國房價(jià)泡沫經(jīng)過多年的膨脹后，開發(fā)商將遇到一場大范圍的房價(jià)逆轉(zhuǎn)，特別是在許多大開發(fā)商盤踞的華南地區(qū)。