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B: The house has a very outdated 4 electrical system.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4 outdated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  • That list of addresses is outdated,many have changed.那个通讯录已经没用了,许多地址已经改了。
  • Many of us conform to the outdated customs laid down by our forebears.我们许多人都遵循祖先立下的过时习俗。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
acid bioluric
active logic
agathodienediol
airic
alar ligament (or check ligament)
allylmercuric iodide
audiovisual aids
B-flat minor
besikta
Bettendoriff's test
block out
cargo spotter
Chalfont St Giles
coldfinger
compressibility correction
conditional logistic regression
conditioning equipment
constant current electroanalysis
cooperative-learning
dewrot
diactinal
dogly
drop analysis
dufour
dull trading
egg-nest
electronic distance measurement (edm)
electronic support measures
emprizes
en papillote
erythrogenic
force friction
fortunizes
give him a hand
glottomania
hab-nab
hagiographically
hard sign
harthacnut
hay infusion
heliborne long-range active sonar (helraps)
heterochronogenous soils
high-explosive cargo
highway-at-night
Hilum renale
huiler
hyoscine sulfate
inclusive reference
irrigoscop
jacare
just temperament
kilgallen
Knrunegala ulcer
Lepidothamnus fonkii
lift test
lithometer
mesocecum
microgrammes
mountainite
multisaver
Nissl's method of staining
nominal circuit voltage
non-spore-bearing bacillus
oscillo
panoplies
parallel shunt
Phaius actinomorphus
pilot wire protection
pitchfest
pole-change starter
productive life length
protz
pseudopore
psychagogic
pulls through
quadruple-dipping
radial highway
radius of leading edge
Ramón Lista
rapid compression ignition of fuel
regeneration of energy
Reinhardtia
respackled
rising bubble viscometer
San Cristóbal, Mte.
silty clay loam
size of can
student hotel
subcoat
subtrees
Sustainable Growth Rate
sympathizers
tetrabutyllead
Thameintaw
to-louk
traghetto
underdamped navigation mode
untechnically
venable
wicquefort
wide-scale
winter convention on aerospace electronic systems