你住的是房子還是公寓

今天的這段對話，在討論住處，
 
每個人住的地方都不一樣，你住的是房子還是公寓
 
來聽今天的講解:
 
A: So Meg, do you live in a house or an apartment?
 
梅格，你住在房子里還是公寓里？
 
B: I live in an apartment near the train station.
 
我住在臨近火車站的公寓里。
 
A: Oh, you live downtown.
 
哦，你住在市中心。
 
B: I do.
 
沒錯。
 
A: Do you like living downtown?
 
你喜歡生活在市中心？
 
B: I do like living downtown because it's so convenient. Everything is close by, grocery stores, the mall, the station.
 
我的確喜歡住在市中心，因為很方便。附近什么都有，有雜貨店、有購物中心，還有車站。
 
A: Oh, that's great. So what about your apartment? Do you have a nice apartment?
 
哦，那很不錯。你的公寓怎么樣？你的公寓漂亮嗎？
 
B: It's a nice apartment, but it's really small.
 
我的公寓很好，不過非常小。
 
A: Oh yeah? How many rooms?
 
是嗎？有幾個房間？
 
B: Well, there are three rooms. But each room is pretty small. There's a bedroom, a sitting room like a living room, and the kitchen room.
 
有三個房間。不過每個房間都很小。有一間臥室、一個起居室，還有廚房。
 
A: Oh, wow. So in your bedroom, like, do you have a big queen size bed, a small bed?
 
哇哦。你臥室里的床是大床還是小床？
 
B: I have a small twin size bed or a single bed in the bedroom because it's pretty small. So there's not much space for a big bed.
 
我臥室里有一張小的單人床，因為臥室很小。沒有足夠的空間放大床。
 
A: All right. So do you have a TV in your bedroom?
 
好。那你臥室里有電視嗎？
 
B: No. Actually, I don't own a TV at all.
 
沒有。我家里沒有電視。
 
A: Really? So there's no TV in the living room, too.
 
真的嗎？所以起居室里也沒有電視。
 
B: There's no TV anywhere in the apartment.
 
公寓里沒有電視。
 
A: Wow. What do you do in your house?
 
哇哦。那你在家里時做什么？
 
B: I have a laptop computer. So usually, I can watch some TV shows or videos on my laptop.
 
我有一臺筆記本電腦。通常我用筆記本電腦看電視節(jié)目和視頻。
 
A: All right. Okay. Do you like to watch movies in bed?
 
好。你喜歡躺在床上看電影嗎？
 
B: Yeah. Sometimes I like to watch movies in bed or sometimes I prefer to sit in the living room and watch movies.
 
對。有時我喜歡躺在床上看電影，有時我喜歡坐在起居室里看電影。
 
A: Right. So you must have high-speed Internet.
 
好。你家的網(wǎng)速一定很快。
 
B: I do. Yes. I have an Internet box that my laptop can connect to.
 
對，沒錯。我有一個筆記本電腦可以連接的上網(wǎng)盒。
 
A: Okay. Cool. Do you have a nice big sofa?
 
好，真酷。你有大沙發(fā)嗎？
 
B: I have two small sofas. So you can push them together to make one big sofa or you can keep them separate. Usually, I keep them separate because there's more room for people to sit on.
 
我有兩個小沙發(fā)。可以把兩個沙發(fā)拼在一起，做成一個大沙發(fā)，也可以分開用。通常，我不會把兩個沙發(fā)拼在一起，因為這樣有更多的空間，方便人們坐在上面。
 
A: Okay. Now, you like to cook. So you must have a nice kitchen.
 
好。你喜歡烹飪。你一定有個很棒的廚房。
 
B: Unfortunately, I have a very tiny kitchen.
 
不幸的是，我的廚房非常小。
 
A: Oh no. How do you cook?
 
哦不。那你怎么做飯？
 
B: I have to use some extra tables to have more space. The counter is really small, so there's not much space. So I have an extra table I use for preparing the food.
 
我要用其他的桌子來增加空間。廚房的操作臺太小了，沒有太多空間。所以我在準備食物時要用其他的桌子。
 
A: Okay. Do you have an oven?
 
好。你有烤箱嗎？
 
B: I have a very small toaster oven. So it's not really an oven.
 
我有一個很小的烤箱。其實算不上烤箱。
 
A: All right. So do you have a microwave?
 
好。你有微波爐嗎？
 
B: I do have a microwave and a small refrigerator and one burner, like a stove top burner.
 
我有一個微波爐，一個小冰箱，還有一個煤氣灶。
 
A: Okay. Do you cook every night?
 
好。你每天晚上都做飯嗎？
 
B: I don't cook every night. Sometimes, I'm too busy. And sometimes because my kitchen is so small, I get a little frustrated. So I just pick up some food from a restaurant.
 
我不是每晚都做飯。我特別忙的時候就不做。而且因為廚房太小了，所以有時我會沮喪，那時我也不做飯。我會從餐廳買飯回家。
 
A: All right. Now, you live in an apartment, so how many floors does your apartment building have?
 
好。你住在公寓里，那棟公寓樓有多少層？
 
B: The building has five floors and I live on the fifth floor.
 
5層，我就住在5樓。
 
A: Nice. Fifth floor.
 
好，5樓。
 
B: Yeah. The view is nice, but unfortunately, there's no elevator.
 
對，視野不錯，不過不幸的是，沒有電梯。
 
A: Oh no.
 
不是吧。
 
B: So you always have to take the stairs.
 
只能爬樓梯。
 
A: Wow. Five flights of stairs.
 
哇哦。要爬5層。
 
B: Five flights of stairs everyday. But it's good exercise.
 
每天都要爬5樓。不過這是很好的鍛煉。
 
A: So you're on the fifth floor. Do you have a balcony?
 
你住在5樓。有陽臺嗎？
 
B: I have a small balcony where my washing machine is and I can also hang out my laundry out there.
 
有一個小陽臺，我把洗衣機放在陽臺，方便我晾衣服。
 
A: Oh cool, washing machine is outside.
 
不錯，把洗衣機放在外面。
 
B: It is outside. It's a little different from my house in America.
 
的確是在外面。和我在美國的房子不太一樣。
 
A: So from your view, what can you see?
 
從你住的地方往外看能看到什么？
 
B: I can see the train station from one window and all the restaurants downtown. And from a different window, I can see the mountains.
 
從其中一扇窗戶看出去，我可以看到火車站和市中心所有的餐廳。通過另一扇窗戶，我可以看到高山。
 
A: Oh nice. Yeah, the mountains are nice.
 
不錯。山很漂亮。
 
B: Yeah, it's really pretty.
 
沒錯，真的非常漂亮。