时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:地道英语对话-租房


英语课

A: There is a problem in my apartment.

B: What is it?

A: A pipe broke in my wall, and water is leaking.

B: Is the water causing any damage?

A: Yes, it’s creating mildew 1 on the walls.

B: I won’t be able to fix the pipe until tomorrow.

A: I can call a plumber 2 to fix it right now.

B: I’ll do it for you.

A: Well, you can’t do it until tomorrow, and I need it fixed 3 now.

B: That’s true.

A: You’re okay with me calling someone?

B: I’m all right with that.


 



1 mildew
n.发霉;v.(使)发霉
  • The interior was dark and smelled of mildew.里面光线很暗,霉味扑鼻。
  • Mildew may form in this weather.这种天气有可能发霉。
2 plumber
n.(装修水管的)管子工
  • Have you asked the plumber to come and look at the leaking pipe?你叫管道工来检查漏水的管子了吗?
  • The plumber screwed up the tap by means of a spanner.管子工用板手把龙头旋紧。
3 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。
学英语单词
a wet weekend
abutting end
adenomegalies
agency agreements
algers
alt-weekly
ansi bomb
atomized lubrication
Bambuco
Baron Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber
Beth-shemesh
bowler hats
breakell
calibration center of balance
carol singing
civil wrongs
clamored
class of repairs
Corylopsis spicata
debt bomb nations
dendrophagocytosis
depeptidoactinomycin
dispersed air attack
dog pounds
double polling
draw-twisting
Emp.
fen colter
ferrite absorbent material
fine break-up
gas poisoning
giornoes
Gophacide
greasy pole
Grosskrut
haemagglutinin
haghel
Harboor
harborfest
hog wallers
horizontal yoke current
Intertropical Convergence Zone
inundation irrigation
job-lot manufacture
Lanusei
loam mold
logomachical
love love love
lynx-eyeds
master-bowman
Mbogoro
measles-affected porka pig with parasitic cysticercosis
mechanical release
medial plate
metal-arc inert gas welding process
motional impedance
mutz
natural gas storage
nitrogranulogen
nonhistones
nonreserpinized
olav iis
on-line magnetic tape
oroblanco
otherguess
out-turned
over-secretes
overachievers
parratt
Phidias
pigment connective tissue
pointed-tops
poison sac
primary yolk cells
quickadjusting
ram cooling
refied
regional diversity
rhythmometer
safety chuck
sameish
shoaded
shoe bombs
shopdropping
shtetels
standard measuring instrument
status change character
stochastic simulation method for runoff regulation
strychninonic acid
style of PASCAL program
syntrichia ruralis(l.)brid.
table reverse-lever
taeniolabidoids
tapered neck rivet
the working classes
torrences
transient phenomena
trizygold development
voice channel
wagonlit
wattis