时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:英语情景对话-买房


英语课

A: I came in to see how my home inspection 1 went.

B: First of all, I need to share what the purpose of a home inspection is. Do you understand what I was doing there?

A: I had a home inspection before, but didn’t really understand it.

B: I help you spot potential problems with the home before you purchase it.

A: The owner said that the roof had leaked, but that he got it fixed 2 last month.

B: Sellers aren’t really all that objective. They may have gotten used to a leaky faucet 3, but it is still broken.

A: Are the sellers responsible for fixing the problems with the house?

B: The owners may wish to pay to have the problems fixed, or maybe the price of the house can be reduced.

A: Did you find a lot of things wrong during the home inspection?

B: The house has a very outdated 4 electrical system. Many of the switches and outlets 5 do not work and are unsafe.


 



1 inspection
n.检查,审查,检阅
  • On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查,发现肉变质了。
  • The soldiers lined up for their daily inspection by their officers.士兵们列队接受军官的日常检阅。
2 fixed
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
3 faucet
n.水龙头
  • The faucet has developed a drip.那个水龙头已经开始滴水了。
  • She turned off the faucet and dried her hands.她关掉水龙头,把手擦干。
4 outdated
adj.旧式的,落伍的,过时的;v.使过时
  • That list of addresses is outdated,many have changed.那个通讯录已经没用了,许多地址已经改了。
  • Many of us conform to the outdated customs laid down by our forebears.我们许多人都遵循祖先立下的过时习俗。
5 outlets
n.出口( outlet的名词复数 );经销店;插座;廉价经销店
  • The dumping of foreign cotton blocked outlets for locally grown cotton. 外国棉花的倾销阻滞了当地生产的棉花的销路。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They must find outlets for their products. 他们必须为自己的产品寻找出路。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
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1-methylglycocyamidine
a needle in a bottle of hay
Aalburg
adem position
after-shave
aminohexanoic acid
Apsidospondyli
aquaculture model
arteria frontobasalis medialis
Attlee, Clement
Bacillariophyceae
Bahaite
bass violins
be bail for
bearing partition
blanket fidelity bond
bucket paternoster elevator
buggery
capitals of serbia and montenegro
carved wooden door
chamber of gas
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climbs
co-amplifying
composite amplitude
crocodilian
Curries Firth
desynchronized sleep
diffuse sky radiation
diurnalness
double-bevel butt weld
downspout conductor
drive set
ecsovirus
enamel(led) paper
equatorial furrow
errow detector
existing user
expansion cushions
fluorospheres
foam modifier
footprint of beam
forenamed
free drainage
front pump
geosphere(lithosphere)
Gouméré
haemapodous
height of tree
homogeneous charge compression ignition engine
honour killers
hydrolutyte
ineloquent
khong wong
know not
Limnobium
lindgren
logarithmic computation
loogaroo
magnetic amplifier type automatic power factor regulator
make no impression on
megalo-esophagus
microfibrillar
Morris, Alexander
multiprocess
Muslimology
no-foundation compressor
nonutopian
NSC-38712
onitsha
optomechanical
page replacement algorithm
paper-and-pencil test
pardaxins
photomemory
piggybanks
portable yard crane
propelling nozzle
proquazone
reactor coolant temperature control system
reformate
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return connecting rod
rubber membrane analogy
saxon count
sbc (sub-band conding)
silver sand
soil dressing
spantax
squad rotation
taxation of profit
technological regime
tisls
trellising
tri-bit
under-workman
Ureabor
vertical shaft furnace
whale-towing craft
yewel
zakaev