DAY 085
2022.07.10
Source: bloombergbusiness
來源：彭博社商業
Title: Singapore’s sky-high car prices are a warning for global cities
標題：《新加坡的天價汽車價格是對全球城市的一個警告》
新加坡的城市規劃者稱解決浪費和汙染的做好方法是限制汽車數量
Ellie Lim, a media professional in Singapore, had planned to buy a new Volvo SUV to ferry her newborn baby. Until she realized it was going to cost her more than S$200,000 ($142,000).
新加坡的一位媒體專業人士埃莉·林原本計劃買一輛新的沃爾沃 SUV來載她剛出生的孩子。直到她意識到這將花費她20多萬新幣（14.2萬美元，約合人民幣95.5萬元）。
Lim says a combination of high interest on car loans, fuel prices and maintenance fees put car ownership out of reach. It’s a common lament in Singapore, where an authorities use an expensive permit system to restrict the number of cars on the roads.
林說，汽車貸款的高利率、燃油價格和維修費的綜合作用使人們難以擁有汽車。在新加坡，這是一種常見的抱怨，新加坡當局使用昂貴的許可證制度來限制道路上的汽車數量。
Singapore is able to have such an expensive car-ownership system partly because it’s a small island. But increasingly, urban planners are saying that the real solution to the pollution and waste from automobiles is simply to have fewer of them – and that could affect us all.
新加坡能夠制定如此昂貴的汽車擁有制度，部分原因是它是一個小島。但越來越多的城市規劃者表示，解決汽車造成的汙染和浪費的真正辦法就是減少汽車的數量——而這可能會影響到我們所有人。
Keywords: 關鍵字詞：
Loan 貸款
Maintenance 維持；保修
Lament 抱怨；埋怨
Permit 允許
Restrict 限制