时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:想聊就聊


英语课
T: Don’t you have air-conditioning in your apartment? It’s sweltering here!

A: Well, there is air-conditioning. Did you see that window air conditioner there? The problem is that the window unit isn’t powerful enough.

T: I guess not, huh.

A: Well, I’m going to move out anyway. The new apartment has central air-conditioning.

T: You should have moved out long, long ago.

A: Well, I had to wait until the lease 1 expired 2. So…

T: So how can you stand the heat?

A: Well, I open the windows and … and I’ve got an electric fan ere. It helps a little.

1 lease
n.租约,租期,租;v.出租,租出,租得
  • When does the lease of the house run out?这房子的租约何时到期?
  • He signed the lease yesterday.昨天他在租约上签了字。
2 expired
期满( expire的过去式和过去分词 ); 文件、协议等(因到期而)失效; 断气; 逝世
  • The period of validity of the agreement has expired. 本协议的有效期已过。
  • Their licences have expired. 他们的执照已到期。
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accessible singularity
Agapetes angulata
aporphine
arenaemyein
atavism reversion
auto-exciting
bacterial enteritis
basalt-plain
be unschooled in sth
building damage statistics
C. of E
cabinet radiation
cadavid
case mould plaster
center cracked tension specimen
chloropropanol
Consolidated Natural Gas
contextual effect
customer setup
damage water
deisidaimonia
dofetilide
doubletube plate condenser
durational verb
earthquake proof construction
electron configuration
Emiratizing
epoxy glass laminated sheet
Eraverm
F-format
failed broker
fellaheen
flame cut(ting)
foreign workers statistics
fusion warhead
Georgia Institute of Technology
honorablenesses
hydraulic classifier
hypoprogestinism
immunity from suit
incrust
indian-american
infrared remote control
isostearate
isotopic molecule
johnny bags
Kawaura
keep out
knight of the community/parliament
lead-acid storage battery
lockstitch
Lunache
lunar seismograph
machining constant
Macrosolen robinsonii
MediaFLO
mesalamine
Mglin
Mindanao
Mohembo
nova sofala(sofala)
oil production engineering
oncotrephin
one's bump of locality
out of door
pedia-gastrofiberscope
pigeon hawks
place utility
playpipe
police launch
power handling capacity
preexponential factor
primary current of a current transformer
quasi-two-dimensional
Quelpart I.
radio-electroencephalograph
read-write random-access memory
refering
representative rates of exchange
Rokitansky-Aschoff ducts
rubber anti-icer
sastre
selective electrode
separator-spatula
set afoot
ship control centre
Short Circuit Rating
Silver-grain
spidergrams
spring vegetable
start stop self-phasing code
stream layer
summission
three-tined
thrush breast
titrated
total labour force
triethyleneglycol
triple-screw steamer ship
urinary catheter
USAB
water beetles