美语情景对话 第1232期:Is it better to rent or own a home? 租房好还是买房好?

Shon: Hello everybody, and this is me Shon from Uzbekistan.

肖恩：大家好，我是肖恩，来自乌兹别克斯坦。

Miki: And I'm Miki from Nigeria.

米基：我是米基，来自尼日利亚。

Shon: Nice to meet you.

肖恩：很高兴见到你。

Miki: Now we're talking about renting a home. Is it better for you to rent or to own? So Shon what do you think?

米基：现在我们要来谈谈租房。你认为租房好还是买房好？肖恩，你怎么看？

Shon: Well it depends on to be honest but for me let's say if we say about the car, I guess it's better to own yourself.

肖恩：说实话，这要视情况而定，对我来说，如果我们谈的是车，那我认为自己买车比较好。

Miki: Well that's nice.

米基：不错。

Shon: When it comes to the house or if you're living abroad it's better always to rent instead of having because you're living abroad right, you won't live there for good. But when it comes to the small, small things I prefer to own myself because it's your own, you can do whatever you want to do with it.

肖恩：至于房子，如果生活在国外，那租房比买房好，因为你现在在国外生活，可是你不可能永远生活在那里。而我个人喜欢买房，因为那是你自己的房子，你可以想干什么就干什么。

Miki: All right, I see. I think renting in some way is more ecological if you look at it from the other aspect of the thing because if you rent something you know you will use it for some time and hand it over because more times if you own it's, how do I put it, it's more or less not ecological because you always want to keep that thing and get a new one and add to it so you keep trying. But if you rent you give it away again and you give others a chance to use it.

米基：好，我明白了。我认为从某种程度上来说，换个角度来看，租房更有利于生态保护，因为如果你租房，你知道你只是在这间房子里住一段时间，房子以后还会有别的人去住，而如果是自己的房子，我要怎么解释，我认为不太利于生态环保，因为你会一直住在那里，而且你还会买新房子，增加你的房产。但是如果是租房，你可以把房子交出去，让其他人有机会住这个房子。

Shon: OK, now I see. Well maybe we should start doing the reverse then?

肖恩：好，我明白了。也许我们应该采取相反的做法。

Miki: To start renting cars it is easy because you can get a good bargain from your car company and after using it you can hand it over and get a new car so you can get to use any cars you want to use at any particular time, any day, anywhere in any place.

米基：可以开始租车，那很简单，因为你可以从汽车公司那里得到不错的折扣，在用完车以后交回去，然后再租辆新车，你可以随时随地使用你想开的车。

Shon: Well that's cool.

肖恩：那真酷。

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重点讲解：
1. to be honest 老实说；说实在的；
例句：I'd rather get it out the way, to be honest.
老实说，我情愿把它处理掉。
2. when it comes to 谈到；涉及；
例句：The French are proud and highly xenophobic when it comes to cooking.
谈到烹饪，法国人会颇为得意并且极端排斥外国菜。
3. for good 永远；永久；
例句：We thought she'd come for a visit, but it seems she's staying for good.
我们本以为她只是来看一下就走，可是看起来她似乎要在这里一直待下去。
4. hand over 交给；递给；
例句：He also handed over a letter of apology from the Prime Minister.
他还递交了一封首相写的道歉信。