时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:我想说 I Wanna Talk


英语课

 I wanna talk about my experience of moving out and living on my own. Moving out to live on your own is not very common in Hong Kong. Many people still choose to live with their parents even though they have a decent 1 job and they’re already at their thirties. Many of them would stay with their parents until they get married. There are several reasons behind – firstly, Hong Kong’s rent is expensive, many people would rather save up more money to purchase an apartment instead of renting one. Secondly 2, the Chinese traditional value of family is that the parents are the ones who brought you up. When you become an adult, you should also take good care of your parents and you should spend more time to be with them. And of course there are people who are still dependent on their parents for food, clothing, household chores, etc.


 
When I tell people about the idea of moving out, many people’s reaction is like, “what do your parents say?” because they assume the parents would not like their children to leave them. Well I don’t know if my parents like it but I can tell you my parents support and respect my decision. They think it is good for me to try and live on my own and then I would know it is the best to stay with my family. 
 
The most important reason for independent living is to save the travelling time to work. It used to take me one hour fifteen minutes to travel to work from my previous living place. From my new apartment, it just takes me thirty minutes so I saved forty-five minutes’ travelling time. I don’t have to get up so early and I save two-third of my travelling cost. It does not only save my time to travel for work but also from most of the places in Hong Kong. In addition, I gain my personal space and freedom by independent living. I make my own decision all the time, I do not have to say whether I would go home for dinner, I can invite my friends to come up and stay late. 
 
Of course there are some trade-offs in living on your own. If you want to rent an apartment, there are lots of preparatory works (work) to do. You have to keep visiting the apartments to search for your ideal one. You have to negotiate 3 with the landlord about the price, furniture inclusion, who is responsible for the maintenance 4 of the furniture and equipments (equipment). My experience was that after we moved into the apartment, it was not until the kitchen cupboard was soaked with water that we found out there was water leakage 5 in the kitchen sink. 
 
Money is the main issue in living on your own. You have to be responsible for all the expenses, for example, the rent, electricity, gas, water, telephone, internet bills, etc. Therefore you’ve got to be well prepared and save up for your bills. Although I find my transportation time much shorter, the saved time is spent on other things, such as cooking and some other household chores. I think preparing and cooking the food do occupy a significant portion of my time, therefore I always try to make simple meals. On the other hand, I have to regularly tidy up my apartment and wash my clothes, so it doesn’t really save much of my time after all. 
 
Now everything is settled down, I’m getting used to my new life and I am enjoying it. I feel that moving out makes it easier for me to strike a balance between my work, my social life, my study and my family. It may be troublesome but it may worth.
 
 

1 decent
adj.象样的,不错的,体面的,正派的,恰当的
  • We want to raise our children to be decent men and women.我们盼望把孩子们培养成优秀人才。
  • There isn't even a decent table in this room.这屋里连张像样的桌子也没有。
2 secondly
adv.第二,其次
  • Secondly,use your own head and present your point of view.第二,动脑筋提出自己的见解。
  • Secondly it is necessary to define the applied load.其次,需要确定所作用的载荷。
3 negotiate
v.洽谈,协商,谈判,顺利通过,成功越过
  • I'll negotiate with their coach on the date of the match.我将与他们的教练磋商比赛的日期问题。
  • I managed to negotiate successfully with the authorities.我设法同当局进行了成功的协商。
4 maintenance
n.维修,保养,扶养费,维持,保持
  • His small farm provides maintenance,but not much more.他的小农场能使他们维持生活,但仅此而已。
  • He has to pay maintenance to his ex-wife.他必须给前妻赡养费。
5 leakage
n.漏,泄漏;泄漏物;漏出量
  • Large areas of land have been contaminated by the leakage from the nuclear reactor.大片地区都被核反应堆的泄漏物污染了。
  • The continuing leakage is the result of the long crack in the pipe.这根管子上的那一条裂缝致使渗漏不断。
学英语单词
Adabīyah, Ra's
adjustable blowdown
admissible normal subgroup
agglutinins
ansclasimeter
Apocryphas
appointment of agent
as a system
azaspirostane
be offhand with sb
Beruas, Sungai
bipolar fabrication
blood banks
bradypterus seebohmi
canbyite (hisingerite)
cattle class
center weight governor
central ballast control station
Chernyayevka
conjugases
CONNECTED WITH
depositional traps
despitefulness
dichaetomyia pallitarsis
direct impact
domain decomposition
earbashed
electronic controlled acoustic shadow system
engraved roller
exalbuminous seed
export declaration
fertiloscopies
filled composite
fluminose
forgottons
four dimensional force
franzi
free garbage routine
froth depth
full-track laying vehicle
gastlet
group conflict
guanidotaurine
helichromy
horizontal automatic frequency control
horn collector
imaginary atom
interpretation of statutes
kibe
La Pobla de Claramunt
lactard
loan bears interest
mentre
metal bead
mid-oceanic
Minamikyushu
musculus retractor pinnae analis
mustow
natural-kinds
navigational radio direction finder
nepa
neutral scouring
oxihemogra
pannier condenser
Pedicularis honanensis
pinosylvine
polarizing screen
preferential segregation(rhodes 1942)
processor-sharing discipline
pulmonary pleurisy
pulse duration modulation
pulse-code moduonlati
quarred
race bill
rail gap adjuster
readathon
redundant phase encoding
resonation
resuscitation moss
retire shipping documents
rhetoricates
rib
rouge red glaze
Russianization
SCOPELOSAURIDAE
second boer war
sedimentary framework
self-secure
serophen
signalwomen
sparkler filter
tiddy oggy
time-depth curve
trety
volatile display
volume electromagnetic energy
wait a minute
warmsup
watchman's rattle
x value
zoltan
zone of increasingly favorable humidities