零基础学英语口语：生活场景

英语自学网

　I have lived at 24 University Street for 20 years.
　　我在大学街24号住了20年了。
　　Where do you live？
　　district municipality
　　24 University Street Chaoyang District Beijing municipality
　　China
　　He lives at 10 Downing Street.
       

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　　Great changes have taken place in the neighborhood for the past decade.
　　过去十年里小区发生了巨大的变化。
　　decade 十年
　　century 百年
　　millennium 千年
　　something take place in somewhere
　　A robbery took place in the corner of the street.
　　Ever since China adopted the reform and opening up policy great changes have taken place all around China.
　　There used to be a mom-and-papa store on the corner.
　　过去街角有个夫妻小卖部。
　　Now it is replaced by a supermarket.
　　现在已经被一家超市取代了。
　　A replace B
　　He replaces his team member.
　　Now a supermarket replaced the mom-and-papa store.
　　There are clinics， schools and other services in this community.
　　这个社区里有诊所、学校和其他服务设施。
　　services = facility
　　neighborhood community 社区
　　neighboring country 邻邦 China town
　　clinics dentist’s
　　school primary school middle school
　　community college kindergarten
　　movie theater church
　　community garden convenient store
　　around the clock store laundry bakery
　　Lots of evergreen trees have been planted along the roads.
　　街道两边种了很多常青树。
　　pine 松树
　　cypress 柏树
　　holly 冬青
　　deciduous trees 落叶树
　　larch 落叶松
　　poplar tree 杨树
　　Chinese scholar tree 槐树
　　gingko 银杏树
　　birch 白桦树
　　oak 橡树
　　linden 椴木
　　willow 柳树
            
            

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　　They are setting up a 20-story tower building up the street.
　　他们正在街边建起一栋20层的塔楼。
　　Kuala Lumpur 吉隆坡
　　Petronas Twins Tower
　　Chicago 芝加哥
　　The Sears Tower
　　slab-type building 板楼
　　high-rise building 高层
　　skyscraper 摩天大楼
　　low-rise building
　　set up a building
　　Mr. Wyatt is my neighbor. We live on the same street.
　　Wyatt先生是我的邻居。我们住在一条街上。
　　live on the Downing Street
　　live at 10 Downing Street
　　We live on the same block.
　　We live in the same building.
　　We live on the same floor.
　　The apartment next door has been vacant for a long time.
　　我隔壁的公寓已经空了好久了。
　　house = building + yard
　　town house
　　apartment 公寓
　　condominium 公寓
　　vacant adj.
　　vacancy n.
　　There is a vacancy in this company.
　　vacuum cleaner 真空吸尘器
　　next door neighbor
　　He is my next boor neighbor.
　　My neighbors would drop in on me from time to time.
　　邻居们经常到我家串串门。
　　drop in on sb = visit sb
　　Kevin has a green thumb. His garden is a sea of flowers.
　　Kevin擅长园艺。他的花园鲜花怒放。
　　He has a green thumb.
　　Mrs. Cooper is very hospitable and always keeps her house open.
　　Cooper太太非常热情好客。
　　keep one‘s door open
　　He‘s pleasant to be around.
　　My neighbors are very congenial.
　　My neighbors would take care of our house if we take a vacation out.
　　我们出去度假时邻居们帮我们照看房子。
　　The kids in the neighborhood always jump across the fence into his garden.
　　邻居家的孩子经常跳过篱笆到他家花园来。
　　pick up flowers = pluck flowers
　　Jackie is a hi-fi junkie and always keeps his stereo on as loud as possible.
　　Jackie是个发烧友，总是把音响调到最大。
　　You are a TV junkie.
　　You are a coke junkie.
　　You are a computer junkie.
　　community
　　the intellectual community
　　the business community
　　the international community
　　Better a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
        　　远亲不如近邻