VOA常速英语2019--建筑师：建造组合式房屋，解决住房紧张问题

This might be the future of affordable¹ housing. It’s called Live Share, and it’s all based on a simple idea that people should be able to afford a home.These units are a response to a British study which warns that the country will have to build more than 3 million homes over the next 20 years to house its citizens.Bill Dunster is the architect behind the idea. “Plainly, the current situation is untenable. The housing market is broken.My kids will never afford their own home. What are we going to do about it? Do we just sit and do nothing? This is wrong.So let’s, let’s. In the end, it’ll cause social unrest. It will cause all sorts of social problems.”

这可能是经济适用房的未来。它被称为Live Share，它基于一个简单的理念，即人们应该买得起房子。英国一项研究表明，英国在未来20年内将建造300多万套住房，为本国公民提供住房。Live Share就是对这一研究做出的回应。Bill Dunster提出了这一房屋建造想法。“显然，目前的形势是站不住脚的。房地产市场已经崩溃了。我的孩子们永远买不起自己的房子。我们该怎么做呢？坐以待毙吗？这是错误的。让我们,让我们。最终，房屋问题将导致社会动荡。引发各种各样的社会问题。”

This idea has a lot going for it economically and environmentally.Solar panels² provide energy. The parts are manufactured off-site and shipped to the building site, so assembly is quick.Tenants³ get their own bedroom and bathroom, but share a living room and kitchen. Dunster says, it’s cheap and easy and can solve Britain’s housing crisis⁴.

这个想法既经济实用，又保护环境。太阳能电池板能提供能量。房屋建造的部件是在工地外制造的，然后运到工地，所以组装起来很快。租户有自己的卧室和浴室，但共用一间客厅和厨房。Dunster说，这种房屋即便宜，建造起来也容易，可以解决英国的住房危机。

“We’ve made this to show that there is no need to be a housing crisis.So if we can solve someone’s housing problem for forty five grand and build it in two weeks,and it’s more durable⁵ and higher quality and has no net annual energy bills. Why aren’t we doing this?”The prefab nature of the homes keeps the costs low.A seven-bedroom unit costs a little more than four hundred thousand dollars. One of the students who worked on the project says he built it for young people like himself.

“我们这样做是为了表明没有必要出现住房危机。如果我们能用四万五千美元解决一个人的住房问题，并且能在两周内建成它，它也更耐用、质量更高，而且没有年度净能源账单。我们为什么不这样做呢？”这种组装式的预制房屋本身就很便宜。一套有七间卧室的公寓售价略高于40万美元。参与该项目的一名学生表示，他是为像他自己这样的年轻人设计的。

“Obviously, it’s great solution because considering most young people don’t have a lot of money to go out and buy a house stay away or get a mortgage⁶ straight away, so with these types of houses, it really benefits young people like myself growing up,because we can now be independent ourselves and move out and obviously being more independent.”The first Live Share unit is expected to open in England by the end of September.

“显然，这是伟大的解决方案,因为考虑到大多数年轻人没有钱去买房子，或是按揭贷款，这种类型的房子能让年轻人长大，因为我们现在可以自己搬出去，独立生活，显然我们会更加独立。”第一家Live Share预计将于9月底在英国开业。

1 affordable   

adj.支付得起的，不太昂贵的

参考例句：

• The rent for the four-roomed house is affordable.四居室房屋的房租付得起。
• There are few affordable apartments in big cities.在大城市中没有几所公寓是便宜的。

2 panels   

镶板( panel的名词复数 )； 面； （门、墙等上面的）嵌板； 控制板

参考例句：

• One of the glass panels in the front door was cracked. 前门的一块方玻璃破裂了。
• Make sure the panels are treated with a wood preservative. 确保镶板用木材防腐剂处理过。

3 tenants   

n.房客( tenant的名词复数 )；佃户；占用者；占有者

参考例句：

• A number of tenants have been evicted for not paying the rent. 许多房客因不付房租被赶了出来。
• Tenants are jointly and severally liable for payment of the rent. 租金由承租人共同且分别承担。

4 crisis   

n.危机，危急关头，决定性时刻，关键阶段

参考例句：

• He had proved that he could be relied on in a crisis.他已表明，在紧要关头他是可以信赖的。
• The topic today centers about the crisis in the Middle East.今天课题的中心是中东危机。

5 durable   

adj.持久的，耐久的

参考例句：

• This raincoat is made of very durable material.这件雨衣是用非常耐用的料子做的。
• They frequently require more major durable purchases.他们经常需要购买耐用消费品。

6 mortgage   

n.抵押，抵押贷款；vt.抵押

参考例句：

• He's having a lot of trouble paying his mortgage every month.他付每月的抵押借款利息有很大的困难。
• The bank refused to accept any mortgage on land.银行拒绝接受任何土地抵押。