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B: The house has a very outdated 4 electrical system.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4 outdated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  • That list of addresses is outdated,many have changed.那个通讯录已经没用了,许多地址已经改了。
  • Many of us conform to the outdated customs laid down by our forebears.我们许多人都遵循祖先立下的过时习俗。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
adsorbed hydrocarbon
alarm-call
Artemisium
Audubon's caracara
auxiliary generator room
battery actuation cartridge
Bcc, block check character.
be apt to
benzimidazoyl
betterment order
Boldog
botryodiplodia theobromae
bright rays
call about
canadian-style
carry-circuit
casting out
Chaâteauneuf-sur-Sarthe
coadventures
counter-jet mill
cream cracker
critical level of atmospheric escape
cunife magnet alloy
deceptible
differential cam
direct-axis transient voltage
discharge in cable
doubling roller
drafter
Dunnottar Castle
elite-dominated
empladstrum
enteric bacilli
exceptional point
extract of a letter
factor of evaporatoin
fast neutron range
floridine
gas reflux
genomorph
glissette
grass-earth
grilled prawns
gudmundsson
heapy
heptastylos
high velocity brittleness
Horcón, Pico
installing browser add-ons
kernel corn
kletzky
knife robber
ladle pot
Liguria
losing it
louvered slats
mango
mass production technique
meghann
method of aging
methscopolamine
Meziérès-sur-Seine
microfault
motherings
mushy freezing
nest finned tube heat exchanger
one-velocity equation
orphan star
outsilence
pluie
pole-changing control
pomatorhine
Priestman's River
private-insurance
removable dam
rotor slot
S-shapedkidney
Sabouraud's maltose culture-medium
sea water transmittance meter
sea-going dredge
serviceable wagon kilometers
signalman
sixling
Smart Tags
space biomedical telemetry
spacecraft antenna
sperocylinder
strecytoptosmic flagellum
swear fealty
synchro-shear
tectonic axis
teeterboards
test paper
transcription initiation site
ultrasonic hardness measurement
unshared electron
unspoofable
Usonianism
verocainine
visual cells
war-effort
westway