一片通英語(yǔ)聽力小短文第五級(jí)5-1: 我的新家-家里-房地產(chǎn)
我的新家-家里-房地產(chǎn)
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因?yàn)楦赣H的工作關(guān)系，我們家得搬到圣地亞哥去。父親想要用租的，但是母親堅(jiān)持用買的。他們倆各有各的理由，于是就妥協(xié)為暫時(shí)買個(gè)新房子。不久，父親發(fā)現(xiàn)貨款利率一直在降低，而且不動(dòng)產(chǎn)市場(chǎng)正值谷底，于是他改變了主意。
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 at Century 21. Things went much smoothly after that.
現(xiàn)在他們都同意用買的，所以父親必須為新家而謹(jǐn)慎地尋找。開始時(shí)比較困難，因?yàn)槲覀儺?dāng)時(shí)是住在華盛頓州的西雅圖。但在聽了一個(gè)朋友的建議之后，父親找了個(gè)21世紀(jì)房地產(chǎn)經(jīng)紀(jì)人。從那之后，事情進(jìn)展得順利多了。
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.
理想的地點(diǎn)找到了，經(jīng)過(guò)出價(jià)協(xié)商，最后成交了。父親選的是單層的房子，佔(zhàn)地8000平方英尺的土地，建筑面積是2500平方英尺。這房子有三個(gè)臥室，兩個(gè)半的廁所，和一間可以停放兩輛車的車庫(kù)。
We hired a moving company to ship our belongings to the new address with a trailer truck. It was not a major flying home on vacations.
我們雇了一家搬家公司，他們用拖車把我們所有的物品都搬到新地址。這對(duì)我來(lái)說(shuō)并沒有太大的變化;我只需要在回家度假時(shí)改變飛機(jī)到達(dá)的目的地即可。
