高考英语 3500 词・语境速记【174】|共享的东西,真的更便宜吗 ——24 个高频词

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Ten years ago, if you needed a bicycle, you bought one. If you needed a car for a weekend, you asked a friend. Today, you open an app, scan a code, and ride away. This is the sharingeconomy, and it has changed how people move through cities. Shared bikes, shared cars, shared umbrellas, shared chargers — almost anything can be rented by the hour. The promise is simple: pay only for what you use, and waste less.

The advantages are real. A person who rides a shared bike twice a week spends far less than someone who buys a bike and lets it rust in a hallway. A family that shares a car on weekends does not need to pay for parking, insurance, and repairs all year. Sharing also reduces waste. Instead of every household owning a drill that is used twice a year, one drill can serve a whole neighborhood. Fewer things made means fewer resources taken from the earth.

But the sharing economy has a darker side. Companies often sell at a loss to drive competitors out, then raise prices once the market is theirs. Shared bikes pile up in dumps, broken and abandoned. The workers who repair and move these items are often paid poorly and have little protection. And the convenience can be misleading. A one-yuan bike ride feels cheap, but if you take it every day, the cost adds up to more than buying a second-hand bike.

The sharing economy is neither a miracle nor a trick. It is a tool. Used well, it can make cities cleaner, reduce waste, and give people flexible choices. Used poorly, it creates new piles of garbage and new forms of inequality. The question is not whether sharing is good or bad. The question is who controls it, and who benefits. A shared bike is just a bike. What matters is the system around it — and whether that system serves the people who use it, or only the people who own it.

十年前，如果你需要一辆自行车，你就买一辆。如果你周末需要一辆车，你就问朋友借。今天，你打开一个应用，扫码，然后骑走。这就是共享经济，它改变了人们在城市中出行的方式。共享单车、共享汽车、共享雨伞、共享充电宝——几乎任何东西都可以按小时租。承诺很简单：只为你使用的东西付费，减少浪费。优势是真实的。一个每周骑两次共享单车的人，比买一辆自行车让它在走廊里生锈的人花得少得多。一个周末共享汽车的家庭不需要全年支付停车费、保险和维修费。共享还减少浪费。不是每个家庭都拥有一把一年用两次的电钻，一把电钻可以服务整个社区。制造的东西越少，从地球上取走的资源就越少。但共享经济有更黑暗的一面。公司经常亏本销售以把竞争对手挤出去，然后在市场归他们所有后提高价格。共享单车堆在垃圾场里，坏了，被遗弃。维修和搬运这些物品的工人往往工资低，几乎没有保护。而且便利性可能具有误导性。一元钱的骑行看起来很便宜，但如果你每天都骑，费用加起来比买一辆二手自行车还多。共享经济既不是奇迹也不是骗局。它是一个工具。用得好，它可以让城市更干净，减少浪费，给人们灵活的选择。用得不好，它制造新的垃圾堆和新的不平等形式。问题不是共享是好是坏。问题是谁控制它，谁受益。一辆共享单车只是一辆自行车。重要的是它周围的系统——以及这个系统是服务于使用它的人，还是只服务于拥有它的人。