A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
支出
Expenditure
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
小心小开销。小洞沉大船。
Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn't appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
没有什么比公共开支更容易的了。它似乎不属于任何人。把它送给别人的诱惑是压倒性的。
One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not.
我和妻子在大学教授个人理财课程时提出的一个建议是，把所有支出都记下来，看看钱都花到哪里去了。单凭这一点就会让户主对x、y或z的支出三思而后行，并仔细考虑他们是否真的需要某样东西。