[by:可可英语~m.moreplr.com]
[00:00.00]My New Home-Home-Real Estate
我的新家-家里-房地产
[00:04.65]Because of father's work，our family had to move to San Diego. 
因为父亲的工作关系，我们家得搬到圣地亚哥去。
[00:10.06]Father wanted to lease but mother insisted on buying. 
亲想要用租的，但是母亲坚持用买的。
[00:13.90]Both of them had good points. 
父他们俩各有各的理由，
[00:15.54]so the compromise was a short-term lease as tamporary settlement and buying a new home at a better location later. 
于是就妥协为暂时买个新房子。
[00:23.55]Soon, father found out that loan interest rates had been dropping and the real estate market was at an all time low. 
不久，父亲发现货款利率一直在降低，而且不动产市场正值谷底，
[00:31.16]He changed his mind. 
于是他改变了主意。
[00:32.90]Now they had agreed on buying, father must search carefully for the new home. 
现在他们都同意用买的，所以父亲必须为新家而谨慎地寻找。
[00:37.80]It was difficult at first, bacause we lived way up in Seanle Washington. 
开始时比较困难，因为我们当时是住在华盛顿州的西雅图。
[00:42.34]Following a friend's suggestion father contacted a real estate broker at Century 21. 
但在听了一个朋友的建议之后，父亲找了个21世纪房地产经纪人。
[00:48.47]Things went much smoothly after that. 
从那之后，事情进展得顺利多了。
[00:51.16]The ideal location was found, negotiated, and bought. 
理想的地点找到了，经过出价协商，最后成交了。
[00:55.31]Father chose a single story, twenty-five hundred square feet house on an eight thousand square feet lot. 
父亲选的是单层的房子，佔地8000平方英尺的土地，建筑面积是2500平方英尺。
[01:02.10]It has three bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms, and a garage with room for two cars. 
这房子有三个卧室，两个半的厕所，和一间可以停放两辆车的车库。
[01:08.47]We hired a moving company to ship our belongings to the new address with a trailer truck. 
我们雇了一家搬家公司，他们用拖车把我们所有的物品都搬到新地址。
[01:14.61]It was not a major change for me, I just had to change my destination when flying home on vacations.
这对我来说并没有太大的变化；我只需要在回家度假时改变飞机到达的目的地即可。