A: You really need a credit card. It can help you manage your outgoings.
B: How? I’ve always thought you’re more likely to spend money if you have a credit card.
A: Well, for example, you can buy many products nowadays with interest-free instalments. You don’t need to spend a lot of money in one go, so you can continue putting savings away.
A: 你真的需要一張信用卡,它可以幫助你管理自己的支出。
B: 怎麼說?我一直以為,如果有信用卡的話,反而會花更多錢?
A: 嗯…比如說,現在很多商品都可以用信用卡分期付款,還免利息。你就不用一次付太大筆的款項,可以繼續維持存錢的習慣。
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Historians are rethinking the way the Holocaust is being presented in museums as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the last Nazi concentration camps this month. Shocking images of the mass killings of Jews were “used massively at the end of World War II to show the violence of the Nazis,” historian Tal Bruttmann, a specialist on the Holocaust, told AFP. But in doing so “we kind of lost sight of the fact that is not normal to show” such graphic scenes of mass murder, of people being humiliated and dehumanized, he said. Up to this
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