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B: The house has a very outdated 4 electrical system.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4 outdated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  • That list of addresses is outdated,many have changed.那个通讯录已经没用了,许多地址已经改了。
  • Many of us conform to the outdated customs laid down by our forebears.我们许多人都遵循祖先立下的过时习俗。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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AAWSUP
all-cause
alunozal
ath (aat)
axogenesis
band amplifier
beta-emitting isotope
beta-uranotile (beta-uranophane)
bezzled
boat of garten
boobyalla
brise
caballeria
canis lupuss
Casalarreina
Castrelo, Embalse de
central nucleus
Chinese Physical Society
coalcutter
cyclic electron flow
deportation ordinance
detect in the act
dilenser
discarded metal
dorham
drift hoop
East.
elastic sols
enforce A on B
engine conk
enimonts
error amplifier
Eulgem
extrinsic property
flooded
foreign exchange free market
forenight
general purpose processor
German
GIGANTURIDA
Goldberg wedge
goose pimple
hand emergency signalling apparatus
heritability estimate
homogomph falcigerous seta
Husihui
hypocholesteromia
in-sister
indirect singularity
leasehold interests
leucemias
line number editing
listen mode
locomotive fairing
Lostant
magnetic pinch effect
magnetic tape processing unit
main tree
matrisate
microemulsified
motor vehicle registration tax
mouamba
nailbourne
neisseria ovis
netplay
non-repaired item
nonphotochromogen
open - door policy
over-speed trip mechanism
p-over port
performative meaning
polyploidizations
Promyshlennovskiy Rayon
provect
pseudorandom code frequency-modulated fuze
rain fed crop
reduce someone to the rank of
refocusable
regroups
regularized boolean set operation
Republic of Argentina
Rhodiola fastigiata
right about face,rightabout-face
roller-skied
RTQ
rubus tephrodes hance
scheduling in construction of nuclear power plant
scheunenviertel
shredding device
sludge compartment
spruce bark beetles
standard transversetest core
steamship company
Streptococcus foetidus
talboys
toxicity data
virtual-memories
white coral
whole-blood
Windows Terminal Server
Zapadno-Karel'skaya Vozvyshennost'
Zyryanovsk