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
air lifter
alasita
Amphalius runatus
anchor rope
anode polarization
arcuate artery
attachment constriction
Beale cipher
Bengali language
biaorite
black cock
boiled size
britchka
by invitation
call receipt
catelectrodes
chama semipurpurata
Cherquenco
chicked
chugach mountains
coherent synchrotron radiation
component part diagram
corneodesmosin
counter-ponderant
cule border
cutset submatrix
den chief
deraigned
desalting unit using ion-exchange membrane
dovetail cutting
dvory nad zitavou
engine driven air compressor
epispermic
ethylene fluoride
evaporative reflux
exsecants
first isolation of radium
floating barrier
focuson
fragile chromosone site
galletyle
gulfs of california
homoantigen
hook-joint
horizontal-deflection plates
hyperensemble
Hφrby
insurance lock
internal gravity wave (igw)
inverse polar plot
jargon-filled
Klib
knocked-on-atom
land revision survey
legacy dutv
linsleys
load task name
looper feed fork
manufacturing adjustment lead time
molten aluminum
moralistic therapeutic deism
myna
OB (oil burner)
ochro
paired gratings
passage ventilating duct
Paulownia tomentosa
pebblelike
pelobatid
pentoline tartrate
pink colour
powch
programmer analyst
raiden
residual method of valuation
reversify
rippling mode
rock dyke dam
scar-free
Schweizer Jura
sefer
sintering grate
slow-speed machine
smearproof
soft sweets
spelunk
Sphagnobrya
split pattern molding machine
sulfomethylation
sundial
sweet as
Thames Navigation Service
the four limbs
topheaviness
trophic eggs
unsoaped
ununitableness
urea peroxide
wakeys
Web cam
white saturation
yarmalke, yarmelke