【英语计划】Writing Scripts Share

Topic: Electronic payment and traditional payment, which one do you prefer?

本期主题是：传统支付手段和电子支付，哪一个更博你青睐？

Unique Traditional Payment

Do you remember the day you went to a store, took out a couple of coins and got a bottle of soft drink? Nowadays, most of us buy soft drinks by tapping our phones or swiping cards, and this called electronic payment really promotes our life. However, I prefer traditional payment for its own characteristics that electronic payment doesn’t have.

        你是否还记得曾经去商店，用硬币买饮料的日子？如今，大多数人买饮料只需划一下卡或在手机上点几下——这种被称为“电子支付”的支付方式正在改变着我们的生活。而我却更喜欢传统的支付方式，喜欢它那电子支付所不曾有的独特角色。

First, the information security. Buying goods with cell phone requires to scan shop’s QR code or use the card readers in the store. By doing this, hackers can trace purchase history, bank account and even asset with tricks on the QR code images or card readers. With traditional payment, one pays cash on delivery, leaving nothing but paper money so that your private information won’t be disclosed unconsciously.

        首先是信息安全。用手机支付需要扫描二维码，用银行卡需要划店里的刷卡器，而这样做的风险，是黑客有可能通过做了手脚的二维码或刷卡器获取支付者的信息，购买历史，银行账户甚至是个人财产。传统支付，一手交钱一手交货，给出的也只有纸质钞票，因此私人信息也不会无意识地泄露出去。

Second, the consciousness of money management. With electronic payment, people buy what they want with the results of decreased numbers and easy-to-be-ignored notifications, making people care little about their allowance. In contrast, with wallets getting thinner and thinner, people will have not visual, but tactual feedback, which makes it clearer for people to know how much they have paid and left. Thus people will be more sensitive for their asset and gradually have the mind to make plans for money.

        其次是财物管理意识。使用电子支付是，人们得到的反馈只有余额数字的减少以及一条不太引人注目的通知消息，这使人容易忽略余额的数量。但是，钱包的“消瘦”可以给人以视觉和触觉上的刺激，让人更清楚地感受到花了多少，还剩多少。这样一来，人们对财产数额也更为敏感，也会渐渐开始规划自己的开支。

Third, the leisure lifestyle. Electronic payment enables people to finish the buying process in seconds, pushing them to finish tasks . It’s good for efficiency, but sometimes makes people a busy spinning top. With traditional payment, people take out their wallet, handle the money and wait for change, during which they can have a relaxing gossip with the assistants or others around them to ease the stress from work. Traditional payment represents an easy lifestyle, in which people run their errands in peaceful pace and aren’t always worried.

        第三点是闲适的生活状态。电子支付可以让人在几秒钟内完成购买操作，催促着他们赶快进行接下来的任务。这样做提高了效率，但有时也会让人忙得像个不停的小陀螺。传统的纸币支付方式下，取出钱包，递钱，等找零，在这个过程中还可以和店员或者旁边的人聊上一两句，借机忙中偷闲减缓一下工作压力。传统的支付手段代表着一种悠闲的生活方式，人们可以自在地办着事情，而不用总是待在焦虑状态。

In conclusion, electronic payment brings convenience and efficiency, but the traditional payment owns its unique virtues which cannot be simply abandoned. Traditional payment makes it safe for payment, arouses economical awareness and presents a comfortable lifestyle, which attracts me to give my preference to it.

        总之，电子支付虽然便捷高效，但传统支付以其独特的价值而存在，不能简单扔至不管。传统支付手段可以保障支付安全，唤起人们的经济意识，同时代表了一种怡然自得的生活状态，这便是我为之倾心的原因所在。