- [countable] (British English) (also apartment especially in North American English)
a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor of a building 一套房間;公寓;單元房 They're renting a furnished flat on the third floor. 他們租了四樓一套帶家具的公寓。 to buy/sell a flat 購買/出售公寓 - in a flat
Do you live in a flat or a house? 你住的是公寓還是獨立住宅? a basement/ground-floor/top-floor flat 地下室/底層/頂層公寓 a two-bedroom flat 帶兩間卧室的公寓 The park was surrounded by high-rise flats and office blocks. 公園周圍是高層公寓和辦公樓。 a new block of flats 一棟新建的公寓樓 Many large old houses have been converted into flats. 許多大的老房子已改建成單元房。 Children from the flats (= the block of flats) across the street were playing outside. 街對面公寓樓裏的兒童正在戶外玩耍。
CollocationsMoving house Moving house搬家 Renting 租房子 - live in a rented/(especially North American English) rental property
住在租來的住所裏 - rent/share/move into a furnished house/(British English) flat/(especially North American English) apartment
租用/合住/搬進配有家具的房屋/公寓 - rent a studio/(British English) a studio flat/(especially North American English) a studio apartment/(British English) a bedsit
租一個單間公寓 - find/get a housemate/(British English) a flatmate/(North American English) a roommate
找一個室友 - sign/break the lease/rental agreement/contract
簽署/違反租約/租賃協議/合同 - extend/renew/terminate the lease/(British English) tenancy
延長租賃期限;續簽/終止租約 - afford/pay the rent/the bills/(North American English) the utilities
付得起/支付租金/賬單/水電氣等雜費 - (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/退還損壞押金/保證金 - give/receive a month’s/two-weeks’ notice to leave/vacate the property
提前一個月/兩周發出/收到離開/騰空住房的通知
Being a landlord 做房東 - 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
趕走現有房客 - attract/find new/prospective tenants
吸引/尋找新的/可能的房客 - invest in rental property/(British English) property to let/(British English) the buy-to-let market
投資購房用於出租
Buying 購買房子 - buy/acquire/purchase a house/(a) property/(especially North American English) (a piece of) prime real estate
購置一棟房子/一處房産/(一塊)優質房地産 - call/contact/use (British English) an estate agent/(North American English) a Realtor™/(North American English) a real estate agent/broker
電話聯系/聯系/任用房地産經紀人 - make/ (British English) put in an offer on a house
提供房子的報價 - put down/save for (British English) a deposit on a house
支付/存錢付房屋訂金 - make/put/save for (especially North American English) a down payment on a house/home
支付/攢錢支付買房的首付金 - apply for/arrange/take out a mortgage/home loan
申請/商定/取得按揭/住房貸款 - (struggle to) pay the mortgage
(竭力)支付按揭貸款 - make/meet/keep up/cover the monthly mortgage payments/(British English also) repayments
支付每月的按揭貸款 - (British English) repossess/ (especially North American English) foreclose on somebody’s home/house
收回某人的房子;終止某人的房屋贖回權
Selling 出售房子 - put your house/property on the market/up for sale/up for auction
將房屋/房産投放市場/出售/拍賣 - increase/lower your price/the asking price
提高/降低價格/要價 - have/hold/hand over the deed/(especially British English) deeds of/to the house, land, etc.
持有/移交房屋、土地等契約
Extra ExamplesTopics Houses and homesa1, Buildingsa1Do you think that the council could find me another flat? 你認爲市政當局能給我再找一套公寓嗎? Even the prices of small bachelor flats are unbelievable. 就連小型單身公寓的價格都令人咋舌。 I'll meet you back at your flat. 我回你公寓找你。 She lives in the top flat. 她住在頂樓公寓。 The flat is located in a modern development. 公寓位於一個現代化的新建住宅區。 The landlady found they had been illegally subletting the flat. 女房東發現他們一直在違法轉租公寓。 The musician rented a flat in a fashionable area of London. 那位音樂家在倫敦高級住宅區租了一套房。 They live in the next flat. 他們住在隔壁公寓。 We got her a flat in the same block as ours. 我們幫她在我們住的公寓樓找到了一套住房。
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 (尤指水邊的)平地;低窪地 salt flats 鹽灘 These birds live on the coastal flats. 這些鳥生活在沿海平地。 mud and sand flats rich in animal life 動物種類豐富的泥沼和沙地
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 無障礙平地賽馬季節 - [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;降號 - [countable] (especially North American English)
a tyre that has lost air, usually because of a hole 癟了的輪胎;撒了氣的輪胎 - [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 一雙平跟鞋
rooms房間
level part平面部分
land土地
horse racing賽馬
in music音樂
tyre輪胎
in theatre劇院
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個騎自行車的人要比在平地上困難十幾倍。