1.Greece’s reliance on a bailout of over ?20 billion, or about $360 billion, from the International Monetary Fund ended in 2018, and real estate prices rose by nearly 2 percent, the first increase in nine years, according to the Bank of Greece. Building permits jumped more than 10 percent, reversing a seven-year slump.考生如果怕自己錯過考試報名時間和考試時間的話，可以 免費預約短信提醒，屆時會以短信的方式提醒大家報名和考試時間。

據(jù)希臘銀行(Bank of Greece)的數(shù)據(jù)，國際貨幣基金組織向希臘提供的逾3200億歐元的救助計劃已于2018年結(jié)束，希臘的房地產(chǎn)價格已上漲了近2%，這是九年來的首次上漲。批準的建筑許可證增加了10%以上，扭轉(zhuǎn)了七年的下降趨勢。

2.Real estate investment grew in 2018 by around 20 percent from a year earlier.

2018年，希臘的房地產(chǎn)投資與上年相比增長了約20%。

3.Investors have tried to cash in partly by converting properties to lucrative short-term tourist rentals, which have quadrupled in five years, reducing the supply of affordable rental housing for average Greeks. A growing number of tourist rentals are listed on Airbnb, prompting the government to mull restrictions.

投資者試圖通過將房產(chǎn)轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)榭晒┯慰投唐谧庥?、利潤豐厚的度假屋從中牟利，度假屋的數(shù)量在五年內(nèi)翻了兩番，導致希臘老百姓負擔得起的出租房供應量下降。越來越多的度假屋出現(xiàn)在愛彼迎網(wǎng)站上，促使政府考慮對其進行限制。

4.Argiro Fouraci, 29, recently began renting five apartments that have been in her family for years. A teacher who lost her job during the crisis, she had struggled to get by until offering the apartments, in the popular Koukaki neighborhood near the Acropolis, as Airbnbs. She said she now clears about ?00 per month on each apartment, after taxes and management fees.

29歲的阿吉羅·福拉奇(Argiro Fouraci)最近開始出租她家很久前就擁有的五套公寓。她以前是教師，經(jīng)濟危機期間丟掉了工作，之后一直在艱難度日，直到她開始在愛彼迎上出租自家的房子，它們都位于衛(wèi)城附近深受歡迎的庫卡奇一帶。她說，扣除稅費和管理費后，她現(xiàn)在從每套公寓得到每月約400歐元的凈收入。

5.The earnings help her care for her parents, who are in their 60s and whose pensions were slashed. They, in turn, support her brother, who has opened a vaping store. “Most of my friends are still unemployed,” she said. “Now I can have a life and help my family.”

這些收入為她照顧60多歲的父母提供了幫助。父母的養(yǎng)老金已被大幅削減，而父母還要接濟她的弟弟，他開了一家電子煙店。“我的大多數(shù)朋友仍在失業(yè)中，”她說，“現(xiàn)在我可以有自己的生活，還能幫助我的家人。”

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