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B: The house has a very outdated 4 electrical system.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4 outdated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  • That list of addresses is outdated,many have changed.那个通讯录已经没用了,许多地址已经改了。
  • Many of us conform to the outdated customs laid down by our forebears.我们许多人都遵循祖先立下的过时习俗。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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a hotel
acid oxalate
agar jelly
agounni jefal
air-delivereds
anchored sheet-piling
balneotherapeutics
bank note handling fee
bond price
busama
capital projects funds
cardamoms
centram
co-agent
concurrent microoperation
CorneliadeLange
crude oils
cutting thread
deoxyribonucleotide
description attribute matrix
detinning corrosion
dinkas
discludes
discordious
draw period
elfstorpite
emma hart willards
epacris families
essential mineral
evendown
expansionary budget
fast-food clamshell
favaloro
flash illumination
forlorn hope
formaldehyde-treated
genus saururuss
girth gear
gnomishness
governor with sleeve
helical-path mass spectrometer
high-bush blueberries
ihleite (copiapite)
informatized
inspection gage
karume
Kāsimpur
Laghouat
lantern chuck
lift pit
Ligamentum cricothyroideum medianum
linguocervical
localized stress
loners
Makhubo
mandura
maraschino liqueur
marine disposal
methylsiloxane
military clinical medicine
mis-sware
multiple drill press
nervi thoracales
nuclear magnetic double resonance
nullifier
numerix
ornella
ovetts
pemberton-billings
pennyburns
phosphoric acid fuel cell
Pirogoff's amputation
plastic based paint
pole reversing key
polyamide resin
postglacially
Pregrada
processus coronoides
puppet-show
radial scanning
radio forecast
reactors
receptiblity
salt a mine
sarokin
saturating force
semicupia
skailly
songthaeo
spina(spine)
stationary chafing plate
subcrepitation
supplementary exposure
textrovert
TG curve
thermocouple restorer
traffic-control
twanging
walensee
wavelength selecting unit
wingert
work blank