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B: The house has a very outdated 4 electrical system.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4 outdated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  • That list of addresses is outdated,many have changed.那个通讯录已经没用了,许多地址已经改了。
  • Many of us conform to the outdated customs laid down by our forebears.我们许多人都遵循祖先立下的过时习俗。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 cowboy
abalak
acoustic tile
airport-brown
alkylative
appeal for compensation
appros
Babstovo
batchy
bearded needle warp knitting machine
Bell's paralysis
Birbeck
Book of Obadiah
bookwise
busbar channel
Cabezo
cambraya de chuma (bolivia)
cardiovectogram
check-valve hole liner
city tour
coke blast-furnace
communality estimation
concert program
conjugated radicle
conjunctivus
cookery books
cooperation in production
cost accounting principle
cruelhearted
crystal mosaic
Dendroaspis angusticeps
dennet
departments of state
digital computing methods
disc attenuator
drag divergence
ecological sociology
efferate
electrostatic flocking adhesive EX-1
empty container
Empty Quarter
epivaginitis
essence exhaustion
fakeAV
filefishes
florosenine
free-quarter
gage block aceessories
getacross
gloxinia perenniss
hamburgs
hepatoais
high-grade mica
hoghs
holiday season
ICCL
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lanthanum iodate
link production with sales
Litwinowia
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Mdsc.
MERk-S
middle classes
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Normosterol
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reusable component
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scorpaenodes hirsutus
segment arm
semantic-based region analyzer
shoe shop
Simhat Torah
stenocephala
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tear someone a new one
term list
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uzun
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waste disposal problem
whiskey tenor
wiggin'
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Yekuzuo
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