I love charity shops and so do lots of other people in Britain because you find quite a few of them on every high street. The charity shop is a British institution, selling everything from clothes to electric goods, all at very good prices. You can get things you won’t find in the shops anymore. The thing I like best about them is that your money is going to a good cause and not into the pockets of profit-driven companies, and you are not damaging the planet, but finding a new home for unwanted goods.
我喜欢慈善商店，英国还有很多人也喜欢，因为你在每条大街上都能找到不少慈善商店。慈善商店是英国的一家机构，出售从衣服到电器的所有商品，价格公道。你可以买到其他商店里找不到的东西。我最喜欢它们的一点是，你的钱将用于公益，而不是流入利润驱动型公司的口袋，你不是在破坏地球，而是在为不需要的物品找到一个新家。

The first charity shop was opened in 1947 by Oxfam. The famous charity’s appeal to aid postwar Greece had been so successful it had been flooded with donations. They decided to set up a shop to sell some of these donations to raise money for that appeal. Now there are over 7,000 charity shops in the UK. My favourite charity shop in my hometown is the Red Cross shop, where I always find children’s books, all 10 or 20 pence each.
乐施会于1947年开设了第一家慈善商店。这家著名的慈善机构呼吁援助战后希腊的活动非常成功，以至于收到了大量捐赠物。他们决定开设一家商店，出售其中一些捐赠物，为这一呼吁筹集资金。现在英国有7000多家慈善商店。我家乡最喜欢的慈善商店是红十字会商店，我总是在那里找到儿童书籍，每本都是10到20便士。

Most of the people working in the charity shops are volunteers, although there is often a manager who gets paid. Over 90% of the goods in the charity shops are donated by the public. Every morning you see bags of unwanted items outside the front of shops, although they don’t encourage this, rather ask people to bring things in when the shop is open.
大多数在慈善商店工作的人都是志愿者，尽管通常会有一位经理领取报酬。慈善商店中90%以上的商品是由公众捐赠的。每天早上，你都会在商店门口看到一袋袋不需要的东西，尽管他们并不鼓励这样做，而是更希望人们在商店开门时把东西带进来。

The shops have very low running costs: all profits go to charity work. Charity shops raise more than ￡110 million a year, funding medical research, overseas aid, supporting sick and poor children, homeless and disabled people, and much more. What better place to spend your money? You get something special for a very good price and a good moral sense. You provide funds to a good cause and tread lightly on the environment.
这些商店的经营成本很低：所有利润都用于慈善事业。慈善商店筹款每年超过1.1亿英镑，用于资助医学研究、海外援助、支持疾病和贫困儿童、无家可归者和残疾人等。还有什么更好的地方可以花钱？你能以便宜的价格和良好的道德感获得一些特别的东西。有一个好的理由花钱，对环境影响也很轻微。