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B: The house has a very outdated 4 electrical system.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4 outdated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  • That list of addresses is outdated,many have changed.那个通讯录已经没用了,许多地址已经改了。
  • Many of us conform to the outdated customs laid down by our forebears.我们许多人都遵循祖先立下的过时习俗。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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access charge
adrenotro-pic hormone
am-dram
asbestos-contaminateds
athletic team
avalaison
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beachiest
biotic formation
bounded metric space
bourruss
Calymenina
cash basis of revenue recongnition
circinnate
Clark number
classical piano
cloth feeder
com-plained
coproica hirtula
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data circuit connection
Dendrocalamus fugongensis
destruction by caterpillars
dogbane hemp
dry tabling
exiproben
fore-appoint
get onto
heart-on-sleeve
high order logic
hilsa
hollow-end roller
huckstered
hydra-leg
Ilex shennongjiaensis
immunohistology
incendiary projectile
incidency
independent catalogue
inertial currents
inertial fluctuation
interlocked earthing
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Kagarko
Kast's syndrome
Kookoolik Cape
kozhevnikov's disease
lastolite
lay the groundwork
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london contemporary dance theatre
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magnetising inrush
malariologists
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Morchella costata
multi-purpose quick change collet chuck
near thermal reactor
net caloric value
off axis paraboloidal mirror
order of priority
organic nutrition
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pierre de fermats
pig passage detector
proofing sheeting
pulling of oscillator
put a price on someone's head
secondary anomaly
sensitive time
Shashemenē
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smooth flow
submarine exercise area
sundry charges
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Suyutkina Kosa
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