时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:一片通英语听力


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My New Home-Home-Real Estate

我的新家-家里-房地产



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因为父亲的工作关系,我们家得搬到圣地亚哥去。父亲想要用租的,但是母亲坚持用买的。他们俩各有各的理由,于是就妥协为暂时买个新房子。不久,父亲发现货款利率一直在降低,而且不动产市场正值谷底,于是他改变了主意。



Now they had agreed on buying, father must search carefully for the new home. It was difficult at first, bacause we lived way up in Seanle Washingto. Following a friend's suggesbon famer contacted a real estate broker 1 at Century 21. Things went much smoothly 2 after that.

现在他们都同意用买的,所以父亲必须为新家而谨慎地寻找。开始时比较困难,因为我们当时是住在华盛顿州的西雅图。但在听了一个朋友的建议之后,父亲找了个21世纪房地产经纪人。从那之后,事情进展得顺利多了。



The ideal location was found, negotiated, and bought. Father chose a single story, twenty-five hundred square feet house on an eight thousand square feet lot. It has three bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms, and a garage with room for two cars.

理想的地点找到了,经过出价协商,最后成交了。父亲选的是单层的房子,佔地8000平方英尺的土地,建筑面积是2500平方英尺。这房子有三个卧室,两个半的厕所,和一间可以停放两辆车的车库。



We hired a moving company to ship our belongings 3 to the new address with a trailer truck. It was not a major flying home on vacations.

我们雇了一家搬家公司,他们用拖车把我们所有的物品都搬到新地址。这对我来说并没有太大的变化;我只需要在回家度假时改变飞机到达的目的地即可。



1 broker
n.中间人,经纪人;v.作为中间人来安排
  • He baited the broker by promises of higher commissions.他答应给更高的佣金来引诱那位经纪人。
  • I'm a real estate broker.我是不动产经纪人。
2 smoothly
adv.平滑地,顺利地,流利地,流畅地
  • The workmen are very cooperative,so the work goes on smoothly.工人们十分合作,所以工作进展顺利。
  • Just change one or two words and the sentence will read smoothly.这句话只要动一两个字就顺了。
3 belongings
n.私人物品,私人财物
  • I put a few personal belongings in a bag.我把几件私人物品装进包中。
  • Your personal belongings are not dutiable.个人物品不用纳税。
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