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B: The house has a very outdated 4 electrical system.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4 outdated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  • That list of addresses is outdated,many have changed.那个通讯录已经没用了,许多地址已经改了。
  • Many of us conform to the outdated customs laid down by our forebears.我们许多人都遵循祖先立下的过时习俗。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》
学英语单词
a. princeps pollicis
adiabatic change of state
agricultural extension
alkali-proof test
anp-
Asparagus officinalis L.
atrovinosa
attitude stabilization system
before-image
benzenoids
Bians
Birgu
bootlace fungus
bubble cell
by sight
Bābannā
capital murder
cash solvent
cater-waiters
caulfeilds
cheapen out
consumption unit
control surface divergence
control system component
cross-undertaking
deck water seal
derksen
diagnostic butter
direct-current meter transformer
drill pipe
dynamic course stability
dynamic program debugging
e-mate
ecospecies
elephantiasis tropica
enacture
established policy
eventualised
exocellular
family thymelaeaceaes
family-size
favazza
file properties
fontavapor
forward difference
frictional current
ganlu xiaodu micropills
give sb. the stick
go forward to
graphotype
handbuilt
highland fling (scotland)
humidity reduction in chamber
hydrocarbon heat exchanger
IDaaS
Johns Hopkins Inlet
joint reliability maintainability evaluation team
juntar
lallemancine
langert
Laurasia old land
life-assurance
light housekeeping
local tax
Mackinaw flannel
marquisettes
marrow sea deficiency
micro-operation
mislocalized
monkist
MSAP
other rewritable optical discs
otoscopic
p-nitro-ethylacetanilide
partitivity
paved footpath
physical management of database
plough-planting system
poisonous agent
polycross
propensity to save
purchase occasion
radiation - induced aberration
ready for service
semi-retired
short-run die
Stevenson Cr.
straight-edge levelling
syndiotacticity
temperature-compensating capacitor
the brass ring
to go on with
to receive
toulmins
tunnel alignment by laser
ultrasonic cardiograph
umbilically
universal affirmative judgment
Wells Fargo
Wheatstone perforator
worksteads
yellow crescent