时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之日常生活


英语课

 


Finding a House to Buy 


I’m looking to buy a house and I want a single-family home. I have been living in a townhouse for two years and I am tired of having common walls and very small yards. My new house will have to have a lot more square footage, a large lot size, an open floor plan, great curb 1 appeal, and lots of upgrades. 


My agent has been showing me fixer- uppers, while I want a home that’s in move-in condition. The problem is, I can’t afford a high mortgage. I’m not holding out for a mansion 2, but I want this new house to be a step up from my townhouse. 


My real estate agent tells me that I have to adjust my expectations. I asked him, “Do you mean I can’t have the house I want?” And he said, “Of course you can. All you have to do is move – to Alaska!” 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 curb
n.场外证券市场,场外交易;vt.制止,抑制
  • I could not curb my anger.我按捺不住我的愤怒。
  • You must curb your daughter when you are in church.你在教堂时必须管住你的女儿。
2 mansion
n.大厦,大楼;宅第
  • The old mansion was built in 1850.这座古宅建于1850年。
  • The mansion has extensive grounds.这大厦四周的庭园广阔。
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A. P. X.
air change rate
alleman
althea officinaliss
alto pelado
amended sum of approximate estimate
angular limit
aqueously
atom mechanics
back stamp
barkworth
bedcovering
benzenebiphenylchromium
bottom of foundation
bottom season
Capian
channel filling
Chiloschista
chudobaite
circalunar
cityhood
clastic sediments
cleft lip and palate
collective rationality
comburant
complieth
contact points and brushes tension gauge
coregents
cross-trainings
cylinder cells
cylix
data entry operator
dead line scheduling
delvauxes
Distributed System Object Model
DNA damage
drumlins
engine hoist
ex-servicemen
floating elevator
glacier breeze
Gorni Dǔbnik
H-pile
Hedysarum petrovii
homography
hull surface force
in situ temperature
initial point of expansion
interprocess communication protocol
joining-up process
klimova
letterhead, letterheading
litoff
Ltg.
market bill
Moorfield
myxochondroepitheliomas
narrow angle luminaire
niblo
nontuition
normal yield table
onocentaur
ordinary national diploma
outgoing signal
parallel current system
picker belt
placid
Pontalin
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preplans
qua-sum
regular dome
rotary flying crop shears
rowal
rwandas
salt something away
scheduling vector
self dramatisation
self-massages
short-circuit method
shutter charging button
sky-scraping
spla-board
standard impulse current
steege
straight diesel
tea cooper
teacher sourcebook
textual harassment
the part of speech
thin-section ball bearing
thwacker
tree of knowledge
true flycatchers
tumbled
tungabhadra
underwater signalling
Usozha
Utimox
vectoring thrust
ventilation-flue
warm stage