谁说当下中国人铺张浪费成风？谁说中国当代年轻人喜欢当 "月光族"？如今，"酷抠族"已经成了很多中产阶级追求的时髦生活方式。
Who said it common for Chinese people to live a life of extravagance and waste? Who said Chinese young people like to spend their whole paychecks? Nowadays, "cool savers" live fashionable lifestyles pursued by the middle class. 
    "酷抠族"是指拥有高学历、高收入但追求简朴生活方式的一群人。
入门级"酷抠族"的行为准则是："能坐公共交通就不开私家车，能步行就不坐车；一张餐巾纸撕成两半用；剩菜一般不放在微波炉加热，而是放进电饭煲里，趁煮饭时'蹭'一点儿热；不用洗衣机甩干衣服，而是让衣服自然晾干；多用飞信、电子邮件，少打手机......"也许这些做法会被人耻笑，大呼这也太小气了！不过他们依然我行我素，将节俭、低碳进行到底。
"Cool savers" refers to a group of people who have high academic qualifications and high salaries but seek simple lifestyles. Their code of conduct involves taking public transportation and not private cars; not taking cars if one can walk there; tearing napkins into halves to double their use; heating leftovers in electric cookers and not in microwave ovens; air-drying clothes rather than using driers; using more mobile apps like Fetion and emails rather than calling via cell; and much more. Perhaps these behaviors will be mocked by others and are labeled as stingy! But they persist their old ways and carry frugality and low-carbon lifestyles through to the end. 
    "酷抠族"不是"葛朗台"，也不是守财奴，他们大多收入不菲，之所以精打细算地生活，是为了追求更简单、健康的生活方式，将中华民族节俭的传统美德和现代的时尚思维结合，这种简单的生活方式让他们更加专注于自己喜欢的人，喜欢的事，是一种健康的生活方式。
"Cool savers" are not Balzac's Eugenie Grandet, neither are they misers. Most of them have good salaries. The reason they have strict budgets is that they pursue a simpler and healthier lifestyle. In combination of the traditional Chinese virtues of frugality and modern fashionable thinking, this kind of simple lifestyle is a healthy one that makes them more concentrated on the people and things they like. 


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• transportation [,trænspɔ:´teiʃən]   n.运输；运送；运费   (初中英语单词)
• pursue [pə´sju:]   v.追赶；追踪；从事   (初中英语单词)
• combination [,kɔmbi´neiʃən]   n.结合；联合；团体   (初中英语单词)
• healthy [´helθi]   a.健康的   (初中英语单词)
• fashionable [´fæʃənəbəl]   a.流行的，时髦的   (高中英语单词)
• persist [pə´sist]   vi.坚持；固执；持续   (高中英语单词)
• strict [strikt]   a.严厉的；精确的   (高中英语单词)
• extravagance [iks´trævigəns]   n.奢侈；极端   (英语四级单词)
• academic [,ækə´demik]   a.学术的 n.大学学生   (英语四级单词)
• traditional [trə´diʃənəl]   a.传统的，习惯的   (英语四级单词)
• taking [´teikiŋ]   a.迷人的 n.捕获物   (英语六级单词)
• calling [´kɔ:liŋ]   n.点名；职业；欲望   (英语六级单词)