在“什么都不买”的自由世界里拒绝“买买买”(11)

declutter
表示“清除，清理（多余物品）”，英文解释为“to remove things you do not need from a place, in order to make it more pleasant and more useful”举个：
I"m going to declutter before my family comes to visit.
我要在亲戚来之前清理一下房子。
encompass
表示“包含，包括（尤指很多不同事物）”，英文解释为“to include different types of things”举个：
The festival is to encompass everything from music, theatre, and ballet to literature, cinema, and the visual arts.
本届文化节将涵盖从音乐、戏剧、芭蕾到文学、电影、视觉艺术等各种艺术形式。
closely/tightly knit
表示“紧密相连”，相当于closely connected，如：a very close-knit family 关系紧密的家庭。
make/do the rounds
表示“交谈一圈；四处访问”，英文解释为“to talk to a lot of people”举个：
I"ve made/done the rounds of all the agents, but nobody has any tickets left.
我已经问过所有的代理点了，但是都没有票了。
“We have plenty right here within each of our local communities to sustain us,” said Liesl B. Clark, one of the founders of the Buy Nothing Project. In the language of Buy Nothing, everything we possess has value, if you can find the person who needs it. “If we can reuse and refurbish and fix and repair and just keep recycling these items, nothing needs to be discarded,” Ms. Clark said.