Houses房子
d chimney 烟囱 © chimney pot烟囱管帽
Ô aerial (8r£) / antenna 天线
© dormer window 屋顶窗 0 slate石板瓦 @ ridge屋脊 © eaves屋檐 0 gable山墙 €) roof屋顶
© cladding (8r£)./ siding (/VAmÊ)■‘壁板 ® gutter 檐沟
® sash window垂直推拉窗 ® balcony 阳台 ® screen 纱窗 © shutter活动护窗 © casement
window 平开窗 ® window pane 窗玻璃 © window box 窗 口花坛 ® windowsil丨窗台 © back door 后门
® French window (Br£) / French door (/S/Amf)落地窗 © hanging basket 吊花篮 ® screen door 纱门
® sunshade遮阳篷 © swing秋千
©chain-link fence钢丝网眼栅栏 ® border 花坛 © brick 砖 © doorstep 门阶 迎）drainpipe排水管 纽lawn草坪 ® tub大花盆 ® deck木制平台 © garden (阶£) / yard 院子
® vegetable patch
/ garden 菜地 © picket fe
Where you live 住处
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The area surrounding a house is the neighbourhood {BrE} / neighborhood (A//\m£). neighbourhood / neighborhood 指邻里。
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A person who lives next to or near you is
your neighbour {BrE) / neighbor {NAmÈ).
neighbour / neighbor 指邻居
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The next house, room or building is next door, next door指隔喪：
分our next-door neighbours我们隔壁的邻居
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An area where people live that is outside the
main part of a city or town is called a suburb, or the suburbs. The adjective is suburban, suburb或the suburbs备郊区、城外，形容词 为 suburban:
► suburban houses/streeís 郊区住宅/街道
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An area where a large number of houses are
planned and built as a group is called an estate or a development.
estate或development指住宅区、开发区：
a rieiv housing estate/devdopment 新建住宅区
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If you go and live in another house you move, or move house. You move in / move into a new house and then move out / move out of
it when you stop living there, move 或 move house 稽搬家、搬迁；move in / move into 指搬入（新居）；move out / move
out of 指搬出、迁出。
Buying or renting a house
买房或租房
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A house that is available to buy is for sale or on the market.
for sale或on the market指待售、供出售：
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This property
has been on the market for about six weeks.这处房地产已上市六周左右。
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A person whose job is to buy and sell houses
and land for other people is an estate agent {BrE) / real estate agent / Realtor™ (A//\mf). estate agent / real estate
agent / Realtor™ 指房地产 经纪人。
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When you borrow money from a bank or building
society in order to buy a house you take out a
mortgage.
take out a mortgage指取得按揭贷款。
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If you pay money for the use of a room,
house, etc., you rent it (from sb). The money that you pay,
probably each month, is rent [U, C]. The person
who rents a room, house, etc., is a tenant and the person
who owns the property is a landlord (or landlady if it is a woman), rent (from)指（向某人）租用（房间、房屋等）， 房屋租金叫rent,租用房屋等的房客或租户叫 tenant,拥有房地产的房东或地主叫landlord 或 landlady (女）：
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The landlord
has put the rent up again.
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