Kenneth: When I told you I had a particular building in mind for you.
This is the one I was talking about. It's a historical home on one of the best
blocks in all of Brooklyn.
Alex: Remember what we talked about.
Nancy: I know, poker face .
Kenneth: Built-ins, built-ins.
Nancy: Oh, the kitchen's a little small.
Kenneth: Well, rip off this awful
room divider, and you've got an eat-in kitchen. And over here you have your
library.
Alex: Wow.
Nancy: For your books.
Kenneth: Oh, you like books?
Alex: I have a little collection of first-edition novels.
Nancy: Alex is a writer.
Kenneth: The parlor.
Nancy: Oh, my God.
Alex: So, this staircase. This leads to where?
Kenneth: I thought you realized. This is a duplex.
Nancy: As in two floors for the price of one?
Kenneth: I believe it's right there in the listing sheet.
Alex: So, why was it sealed off? Were there, like, a slew of murders up there or something?
Kenneth: No, there's just a sweet, little old lady that lives upstairs.
Nancy: A tenant?
Kenneth: Mm-hmm.
Alex: So, rent control means we can't kick her out, right?
Nancy: Alex!
Kenneth: That's a legitimate question. No, you cannot evict her. She has to
decide to leave or, God forbid... Poor thing hasn't been feeling well lately.
She's gotta be close to 100 years old.
妙詞佳句，活學活用
1. poker
face 非常好用的一個短語，是指不顯露出任何表情的時候用的。打個比方，“在砍價的時候，千萬不要露出任何喜歡的表情”就可以說成：When you
are making a bargain, you'd better keep a poker face.
2. rip off A：rip something
off 這個短語有兩個含義，第一層含義也就是本文當中所提到的“拆掉”。此外，我們說“脫衣服”也可以用它：rip off the
T-shirt。 B：是最為常用的俚語之一，意思是steal something。比如：“有些人以偷東西為生”就可以說：Some people rip
off the goods from the supermarket to make a living.
3. a slew of 意思是“很多”，用起來的時候也很簡單，比如“今天我有很多課”就可說：I've got a slew of classes
for today.
文化面面觀
Rent control
Rent control has been in force in a number of major American
cities for many decades. The best-known example is New York, which still retains
rent controls from the temporary price controls imposed during World War II. But
this policy, meant to assist poorer residents, harms far more citizens than it
helps, benefits the better-off, and limits the freedom of all citizens. In many
cities, policymakers understand that controls drive out residents and
businesses. Thus many exempt significant portions of housing from controls,
creating shadow markets, yet as controls hold down rents for some units, costs
for all other rental housing skyrockets. And tenants in rent-controlled units
fear moving to more desirable neighborhoods since the only units available for
rent are very high-priced. ( With no doubt, rent control is a good thing, at
least from someone's point of view, but nowadays some tenants even take
advantage of the rent control law by getting the free tenant lawyers to escape
from paying the rent. And this does give rise to the dissatisfaction of some
landlords who adopt the way of evictions to get rid of the tenants).
北京新東方學校優秀英語教師，主教聽說速成，聽說讀寫，電影聽說強化等課程，有多年的英語聽說教學經驗。陳銳老師主修英文專業，深刻了解英語學習的困難所在；并有豐富的口譯經驗及體會。通過多年的經驗積累，陳銳老師總結出一套適合中國學生自己的漢英學習法，更好的結合漢語來攻克英文。
Kenneth: When I told you I had a particular building in mind for you.
This is the one I was talking about. It's a historical home on one of the best
blocks in all of Brooklyn.
Rent control has been in force in a number of major American
cities for many decades. The best-known example is New York, which still retains
rent controls from the temporary price controls imposed during World War II. But
this policy, meant to assist poorer residents, harms far more citizens than it
helps, benefits the better-off, and limits the freedom of all citizens. In many
cities, policymakers understand that controls drive out residents and
businesses. Thus many exempt significant portions of housing from controls,
creating shadow markets, yet as controls hold down rents for some units, costs
for all other rental housing skyrockets. And tenants in rent-controlled units
fear moving to more desirable neighborhoods since the only units available for
rent are very high-priced. ( With no doubt, rent control is a good thing, at
least from someone's point of view, but nowadays some tenants even take
advantage of the rent control law by getting the free tenant lawyers to escape
from paying the rent. And this does give rise to the dissatisfaction of some
landlords who adopt the way of evictions to get rid of the tenants).