365天英语口语大全(日常口语篇)3 居家住房

居家住房

你对自己住的房子满意吗？你是否能够处理住房过程中出现的一系列问题？你是否正在找新的住处？对话中，Jason和Alice看中了一套公寓，关于这套公寓，来看看他们在谈些什么。

你觉得这个公寓怎么样？What do you think of this apartment?
= How do you like this flat?
我喜欢客厅，比较大，而且阳光充足。I love the living room; it’s huge and filled with sunshine.

○ The bedroom is a little small for us.
     对我们来说卧室有点小了。
请到客厅来。Please come into the living room.

○ Go to your room.
回你的房间去。
收拾一下你的房间。Clean your room.
  = Clean / Pick up your room.
  ○ Pick up your clothes. 收拾一下你的衣服。
请用吸尘器把整个房子打扫一下。Please vacuum the whole house.
○  Sweep the floor. 扫扫地。

★  vacuum v. 用真空吸尘器打扫
这地方跟猪圈一样。This place is a pigsty¹.
○ What a mess! 真够脏乱的！
★ pigsty  n. 猪圈
★ mess n. 脏乱，混乱
打开窗户，给房间通通风。Open the window and air the room.
○ It’s stuffy² in here.
    这儿太闷了。
★ stuffy a. 不通气的，空气闷的
水池子堵了。The sink is clogged³.
○ The drain is backed up. 下水道堵了。
★ sink n. 水池子，水槽
★ clog  v. 堵塞
★ drain n. 下水道

 ● back up（使）淤塞

抽水马桶漏水了。The toilet is running.
○ The toilet overflowed⁴. 马桶溢水了。
这个水龙头在不停地漏水。This faucet⁵ leaks day and night.
★ faucet [] n. 龙头
★ leak [] v. 漏
没有电。The electricity isn’t working.
★ electricity n. 电
没有暖气。There’s no heat.
○ The heat is out. 暖气不供暖了。
把空调打开/关上。Turn on/off the air conditioner.
○ Turn up/down the air conditioner. 把空调调高/低点。
★ conditioner n. 调节装置
你打算怎样装饰这个房间？How are you going to decorate this room?
★ decorate v. 装饰，装修，布置
也许我们应该买些新家具。Maybe we could get some new furniture.
★ furniture n. 家具
 

1 pigsty   

n.猪圈，脏房间

参考例句：

• How can you live in this pigsty?你怎能这住在这样肮脏的屋里呢？
• We need to build a new pigsty for the pigs.我们需修建一个新猪圈。

2 stuffy   

adj.不透气的，闷热的

参考例句：

• It's really hot and stuffy in here.这里实在太热太闷了。
• It was so stuffy in the tent that we could sense the air was heavy with moisture.帐篷里很闷热，我们感到空气都是潮的。

3 clogged   

（使）阻碍( clog的过去式和过去分词 )； 淤滞

参考例句：

• The narrow streets were clogged with traffic. 狭窄的街道上交通堵塞。
• The intake of gasoline was stopped by a clogged fuel line. 汽油的注入由于管道阻塞而停止了。

4 overflowed   

溢出的

参考例句：

• Plates overflowed with party food. 聚会上的食物碟满盘盈。
• A great throng packed out the theater and overflowed into the corridors. 一大群人坐满剧院并且还有人涌到了走廊上。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 faucet   

n.水龙头

参考例句：

• The faucet has developed a drip.那个水龙头已经开始滴水了。
• She turned off the faucet and dried her hands.她关掉水龙头，把手擦干。