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Designing the New Apartment

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ID: 1346 Upper Intermediate
Tired of making do with rented apartments designed in ways that don't suit your needs? Well today's ChinesePod lesson will cover the basics for designing your new apartment. Get everything you want (or, as the case may be, everything your spouse wants) in your new place!
Fri Jan 29 2010 | Jenny, John
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
小天地 xiǎo tiāndì one's own little world
毛坯房 máopīfáng unrenovated home
装修 zhuāngxiū renovation
显得 xiǎnde to appear as if
老公，我们终于有了自己的小天地了。哇，毛坯房看上去还挺大的。
lǎogōng ，wǒmen zhōngyú yǒu le zìjǐ de xiǎo tiāndì le 。wā ，máopīfáng kàn shàngqu hái tǐng dà de 。
Honey, we finally have our own place. Wow, completely bare, the place looks quite big.
装修完了就显得小啦。
zhuāngxiū wán le jiù xiǎnde xiǎo la 。
After it's been renovated it'll look smaller.
嗯，是啊。对了，到时候装修的第一锤可得我来敲。
ng4 ，shì a 。duì le ，dào shíhou zhuāngxiū de dì yī chuí kě děi wǒ lái qiāo 。
Yeah, for sure. That's right, when it comes time to do the renovation, the first hammer strike definitely has to be mine.
呵呵，无所谓啊。你看，厨房的面积不大，要不我们做开放式的吧。
hēhē ，wúsuǒwèi a 。nǐ kàn ，chúfáng de miànjī bù dà ，yàobu wǒmen zuò kāifàngshì de ba 。
Hehe, that's fine with me. Check it out, the surface area in the kitchen isn't very big. How about we do it open-style?
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