عبارت انگلیسی
budget
معنی و توضیح
The word “budget,” in this podcast, means a plan for how one will spend one’s money: “Jasmine’s budget doesn’t include any money for eating at restaurants, because she always cooks at home.” As a verb, “to budget” means to make a plan for spending one’s money: “Terrence needs to learn to budget his money, because he never has anything left at the end of the month.” The phrase “to go over budget” means to spend more money than one had planned: “The construction project went over budget because the wood was more expensive than they thought it would be.” The phrase “to go under budget” means to spend less money than one had planned: “The president was very pleased when the team reported that its project was under budget.”
پادکست مرتبط
اپیزود مرتبط با این کلمه: «Being Rich and Poor». دو دقیقه اول را همینجا گوش کن و متن همگام را دنبال کن. برای ادامه کامل، از دکمه پایین استفاده کن.
Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 297: Being Rich and Poor.
This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 297. I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.
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This episode is a dialogue between Lynn and Santiago about being rich and being poor in the United States. Let's get started.
Lynn: I’ve been trying to help Monica find an apartment, but it’s impossible to find anything affordable on this side of town and near her work. The only thing that’s within her budget would require a 50-minute commute each way!
Santiago: I know. It’s become really ridiculous. I’m reading an article about how the income gap between the rich and the poor in this country is getting wider and wider. Poverty is the worst it’s ever been in cities like L.A.,
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