最节俭的百万富翁:拥有十处房产依然靠垃圾桶食物维生
China Daily
在德国有一位80岁老人,他靠着垃圾桶中捡到的食物维生,看上去就像一个无家可归的人。但真相可能会让你大吃一惊。
在德国有一位80岁老人,他靠着垃圾桶中捡到的食物维生,看上去就像一个无家可归的人。但真相可能会让你大吃一惊,这位老人不光有房子,而且他名下的房产多达十处。他应该称得上全世界最节俭的百万富翁了。
An 80-year-old German man has been dubbed the world’s most frugal millionaire for living off food and stuff found in dumpsters despite owning several properties worth millions of euros.
一名80岁的德国男性被称为全世界最节俭的百万富翁,尽管他拥有价值几百万欧元的多处房产,依然靠着垃圾桶中的食物维生。
Heinz B. looks like a homeless person with nothing to his name, but appearances can be deceiving. The German man may only have €15 euros in his bank account at the moment, but that’s only because he just withdrew 700,000 euros to buy a new home, his tenth. The 100,000 euros left over was transferred to a fixed-term deposit to generate interest. He might not look like much, but the octogenarian is worth several millions of dollars and knows how to increase his fortune. Besides, he claims to have been frugal his whole life, so he doesn’t really need money to get by. He is more than happy living on food found in dumpsters and hoarding all sorts of things other people throw away.
海因茨·B看上去就像一个一文不名、无家可归的人,但是不要被他的外表欺骗了。这名德国男性也许目前银行账户上只有15欧元(约合人民币117元),但这是因为他刚刚取出了70万欧元(约合人民币547万元)新买了一栋房,这是他的第十处房产了。买完房子,他还留有10万欧元存定期赚利息。他可能看上去不像有钱人,但是这位八十多岁的老人资产高达数百万欧元,而且他知道怎么让自己的财富增长。他自称节俭了一辈子,生活上也不怎么需要花钱。他非常愿意从垃圾桶中翻东西吃,以及囤积其他人扔掉的各种东西。
"Maybe I’ll buy some oil for frying or something if it runs out, but I find most of the food in the trash,” Heinz recently told German tabloid Bild. “People are wasteful and throw away so much that you could feed a whole family! For example, people buy a pack of sausages, eat one, and then simply throw the rest in the trash.”
海因茨最近告诉德国小报《图片报》:“如果炒菜的油用完了我也许会买一些,但我吃的大多数食物都是从垃圾桶里捡的。人们太浪费了,扔掉的食物都可以喂饱一家子人!比如说,人们会买一袋香肠,吃一根,剩下的直接扔进垃圾桶。”