Take Away English-Bank Holiday DIY 公假日自己动手做
时间：2019-01-02 作者：英语课 分类：Take Away English
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Whenever there’s a Bank Holiday weekend in Britain, a certain kind of shop always gets very busy, and it’s not what you might think – clothes shops or music shops. The British flock 1 to DIY stores and garden centres and huge numbers of people spend their days off doing home improvements instead of relaxing!
Doing DIY is very popular in Britain, and there are lots of TV programmes which show people how to improve their homes.
Some people stick to simple decorating – putting up wall-paper and painting walls. But there are all sorts of DIY projects that some people decide to take on, from laying new flooring, to plumbing 2, such as putting in a new shower, or tiling 3 walls.
Unfortunately, some people bite off more than they can chew, and start doing a job which ends in DIY disaster. For example, it’s recommended that anything electrical should be done by a qualified 4 electrician 5, but many people ignore this warning and put themselves in danger.
There is also a huge market for flat-pack furniture which you put together yourself with a few basic tools. Often people who are not very savvy 6 about DIY find the supposedly simple instructions impossible to follow, and it’s easy to build a piece of furniture which is unstable 7 or just not very attractive!
Gardening is also popular, and a good way to enjoy the weather on a sunny Bank Holiday. But it’s not as simple as planting plants and doing some weeding. More complicated work such as building a new patio 8 or some decking can cause some stress and back-ache!
So why do people do it? Who knows, maybe we are so used to working that we aren’t very good at relaxing. One thing’s for sure, though a lot of DIY or gardening projects will be started with the best intentions during the Bank Holiday weekend, many of them may not get finished!
GLOSSARY 词汇表
Bank Holiday
公众假日
DIY
自己动手做
stick to
坚持
to take on
做出来
plumbing
管道
bite off more than they can chew
咬了太多而嚼不过来，这里指自不量力
flat-pack furniture
平装家具
supposedly
原以为
weeding
除杂草
decking
（花园）甲板
flock
聚集
garden centres
园艺中心
wall-paper
墙纸
flooring
地面, 地板
tiling
贴瓷砖
electrician
电工
savvy
机智，有悟性
unstable
不稳定，不结实
patio
天井, 院子
with the best intentions
本意良好
- A flock of customers were waiting for the store to open.一群顾客在等候着商店开门。
- A few sheep have been lost from the flock.羊群里少了几只羊。
- She spent her life plumbing the mysteries of the human psyche. 她毕生探索人类心灵的奥秘。
- They're going to have to put in new plumbing. 他们将需要安装新的水管。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Gets or Sets the initial X offset in the bitmap tiling from. 返回或者设置位图绘制起始点的X坐标。 来自互联网
- Tiling his chair back, he was in deep thought. 椅子往后一靠，他陷入了沉思。 来自互联网
- He is qualified as a complete man of letters.他有资格当真正的文学家。
- We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.我们必须看到我们还缺乏有资质的专家。
- She said she would find an electrician for us.她说她要给我们找一个电工技师。
- We need an electrician to mend the iron.我们要请电工修理熨斗。
- She was a pretty savvy woman.她是个见过世面的漂亮女人。
- Where's your savvy?你的常识到哪里去了？
- This bookcase is too unstable to hold so many books.这书橱很不结实，装不了这么多书。
- The patient's condition was unstable.那患者的病情不稳定。