- [countable] (British English) (also apartment especially in North American English)
a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor of a building 一套房间;公寓;单元房 They're renting a furnished flat on the third floor. 他们租了四楼一套带家具的公寓。 to buy/sell a flat 购买/出售公寓 - in a flat
Do you live in a flat or a house? 你住的是公寓还是独立住宅? a basement/ground-floor/top-floor flat 地下室/底层/顶层公寓 a two-bedroom flat 带两间卧室的公寓 The park was surrounded by high-rise flats and office blocks. 公园周围是高层公寓和办公楼。 a new block of flats 一栋新建的公寓楼 Many large old houses have been converted into flats. 许多大的老房子已改建成单元房。 Children from the flats (= the block of flats) across the street were playing outside. 街对面公寓楼里的儿童正在户外玩耍。
CollocationsMoving house Moving house搬家 Renting 租房子 - live in a rented/(especially North American English) rental property
住在租来的住所里 - rent/share/move into a furnished house/(British English) flat/(especially North American English) apartment
租用/合住/搬进配有家具的房屋/公寓 - rent a studio/(British English) a studio flat/(especially North American English) a studio apartment/(British English) a bedsit
租一个单间公寓 - find/get a housemate/(British English) a flatmate/(North American English) a roommate
找一个室友 - sign/break the lease/rental agreement/contract
签署/违反租约/租赁协议/合同 - extend/renew/terminate the lease/(British English) tenancy
延长租赁期限;续签/终止租约 - afford/pay the rent/the bills/(North American English) the utilities
付得起/支付租金/账单/水电气等杂费 - (especially British English) fall behind with/ (especially North American English) fall behind on the rent
拖欠租金 - pay/lose/return a damage deposit/(North American English) security deposit
支付/失去/退还损坏押金/保证金 - give/receive a month’s/two-weeks’ notice to leave/vacate the property
提前一个月/两周发出/收到离开/腾空住房的通知
Being a landlord 做房东 - have a flat/an apartment/a room (British English) to let/(especially North American English) for rent
- rent (out)/lease (out)/ (British English) let (out)/sublet a flat/an apartment/a house/a property
- collect/increase/raise the rent
收取/增加/提高房租 - evict the existing tenants
赶走现有房客 - attract/find new/prospective tenants
吸引/寻找新的/可能的房客 - invest in rental property/(British English) property to let/(British English) the buy-to-let market
投资购房用于出租
Buying 购买房子 - buy/acquire/purchase a house/(a) property/(especially North American English) (a piece of) prime real estate
购置一栋房子/一处房产/(一块)优质房地产 - call/contact/use (British English) an estate agent/(North American English) a Realtor™/(North American English) a real estate agent/broker
电话联系/联系/任用房地产经纪人 - make/ (British English) put in an offer on a house
提供房子的报价 - put down/save for (British English) a deposit on a house
支付/存钱付房屋订金 - make/put/save for (especially North American English) a down payment on a house/home
支付/攒钱支付买房的首付金 - apply for/arrange/take out a mortgage/home loan
申请/商定/取得按揭/住房贷款 - (struggle to) pay the mortgage
(竭力)支付按揭贷款 - make/meet/keep up/cover the monthly mortgage payments/(British English also) repayments
支付每月的按揭贷款 - (British English) repossess/ (especially North American English) foreclose on somebody’s home/house
收回某人的房子;终止某人的房屋赎回权
Selling 出售房子 - put your house/property on the market/up for sale/up for auction
将房屋/房产投放市场/出售/拍卖 - increase/lower your price/the asking price
提高/降低价格/要价 - have/hold/hand over the deed/(especially British English) deeds of/to the house, land, etc.
持有/移交房屋、土地等契约
Extra ExamplesTopics Houses and homesa1, Buildingsa1Do you think that the council could find me another flat? 你认为市政当局能给我再找一套公寓吗? Even the prices of small bachelor flats are unbelievable. 就连小型单身公寓的价格都令人咋舌。 I'll meet you back at your flat. 我回你公寓找你。 She lives in the top flat. 她住在顶楼公寓。 The flat is located in a modern development. 公寓位于一个现代化的新建住宅区。 The landlady found they had been illegally subletting the flat. 女房东发现他们一直在违法转租公寓。 The musician rented a flat in a fashionable area of London. 那位音乐家在伦敦高级住宅区租了一套房。 They live in the next flat. 他们住在隔壁公寓。 We got her a flat in the same block as ours. 我们帮她在我们住的公寓楼找到了一套住房。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- spacious
- modest
- …
- block
- have
- own
- rent
- …
- be located
- face something
- overlook something
- …
- at a/the flat
- in a/the flat
- convert something into flats
- divide something into flats
- make something into flats
- …
- [singular] the flat of something
the flat level part of something (某物的)平面部分 - [countable, usually plural]
an area of low flat land, especially near water (尤指水边的)平地;低洼地 salt flats 盐滩 These birds live on the coastal flats. 这些鸟生活在沿海平地。 mud and sand flats rich in animal life 动物种类丰富的泥沼和沙地
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- coastal
- tidal
- mud
- …
- on the flat
- the flat, the Flat[singular] (British English)
the season for racing horses on flat ground with no jumps 无障碍平地赛马季节 - [countable]
a note played a semitone lower than the note that is named. The written symbol is (♭). opposite sharp compare natural降半音;降音;降号 - [countable] (especially North American English)
a tyre that has lost air, usually because of a hole 瘪了的轮胎;撒了气的轮胎 - [countable] (specialist)
a vertical section of scenery used on a theatre stage 平面布景;布景屏 - flats(also flatties)[plural] (informal)
shoes with a very low heel 平跟鞋;平底鞋 a pair of flats 一双平跟鞋
rooms房间
level part平面部分
land土地
horse racing赛马
in music音乐
tyre轮胎
in theatre剧院
shoes鞋
Word Originnoun senses 2 to 8 Middle English: from Old Norse flatr. noun sense 1 early 19th cent. (denoting a floor or storey): alteration of obsolete flet ‘floor, dwelling’, of Germanic origin and related to flat ‘level’.
Idioms
on the flat
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on level ground, without hills or jumps (= for example in horse racing) 在平地上 Overtaking the next cyclist on an Alpine climb is a dozen times harder than on the flat. 在高山攀登中超越下一个骑自行车的人要比在平地上困难十几倍。