牆後的秘密
Jake and Kathy are colleagues. Jake just bought a house.
傑克和凱西是同事。傑克剛買了房子。
Kathy: I saw your wife the other day at a supermarket. She told me that you guys just bought a house!
凱西：前幾天我在超市遇到了你太太。她說你們買房了！
Jake: Yes. We’ve been busy with the house lately.
傑克：沒錯。我最近一直在忙著房子的事情。
be busy with sth.忙於
Kathy: She told me the house is a bit old. Are you guys going to have it renovated?
凱西：她告訴我房子有點舊。你們要徹底翻新嗎？
renovate(v.)裝修、renovation(n.)
Jake: Yeah. We’re looking for carpenters.
傑克：是啊。我們正在找家好的木工。
carpenter(n.)木匠
Kathy: Maybe you guys will discover something interesting in the house.
凱西：也許裝修的時候會發現一些有趣的東西。
Jake: What do you mean?
傑克：什麼意思？
Kathy: There is a couple in Seattle who just bought a century-old house. After tearing down the wall, they found an old mural, which may date back to 1917.
凱西：西雅圖有一對夫婦剛買了一座百年老房。拆除牆壁後，他們發現了一幅可以追溯到1917年的老壁畫。
century(n.)世紀tear down拆除、tear-tore-torndate back to追溯源自
Jake: That’s so cool. Are they going to keep it?
傑克：真是太酷了。會保留壁畫嗎？
Kathy: They have to have the mural repaired first. Their plan was to turn the house into a bar, but now they have to put off the plan for sure.
凱西：必須先修復壁畫。他們原本的計劃是把房子變成酒吧，但現在必須延後計劃了。
have sth. repaired使役動詞被動用法、讓東西被修好put off延後