2018年9-12月雅思口語Part 2新題預(yù)測：機器故障

　　Describe a time when you had a problem with a piece of equipment

　　You should say:

　　what equipment it was

　　what problem you had

　　when you had this problem

　　and explain what you did about this problem. (How you fixed or resolved the problem)

　　雅思口語part2

　　I remember once, a few years ago it was, when I had a problem with my washing machine. It was quite an old machine but it had always worked very well and was effective at washing clothes, sheets and such like.

　　我記得有一次，幾年前，我的洗衣機出了問題。這是一臺相當(dāng)舊的機器，但它一直工作得很好，而且在清洗衣服、床單等方面很有效。

　　Anyway, one day when I was using it, I noticed some water leaking out from underneath the machine. It was maybe about half-way through the washing cycle when this happened. I started to mop up the water and thought it maybe wasn’t anything serious – but a few minutes later a wave of water appeared across the floor of the laundry room, it was as if I’d just opened the door on the machine while it was still full of water.

　　不管怎樣，有一天當(dāng)我用它的時候，我注意到有一些水從機器下面漏出來。當(dāng)這一切發(fā)生的時候，大概是在洗碗的中途。我開始吸水，我以為問題沒那么嚴(yán)重，但幾分鐘后,地板上一波又一波的洗衣房的水,就好像我剛剛打開裝滿水的洗衣機。

　　I couldn’t mop up the water fast enough. I had to turn the machine off, and there was still more water inside it. So, the machine stopped and I continued trying to mop up the water, eventually managing to get the floor dry.

　　我不能把水拖得足夠快。我不得不把機器關(guān)掉，里面還有更多的水。所以，機器停了下來，我繼續(xù)試著把水擦干，最后設(shè)法把地板弄干。

　　I’m not a technical person at all, so I called my brother who is quite good at things like that and he came round later in the afternoon to have a look at it. It only took him about 5 minutes to find the problem – apparently one of the water hoses at the back of the machine had come loose and that was why the water had been pouring out from under the machine instead of draining away through the hose.

　　我根本不是一個技術(shù)人員，所以我給我的兄弟打了電話，他很擅長這樣的事情，他在下午晚些時候過來看一看。他只花了5分鐘就找到了問題——顯然，機器后面的一個水管已經(jīng)松動了，這就是為什么水從機器下面倒出來，而不是從軟管里抽出來的原因。

　　He managed to reconnect it again and then we tested the washing machine by filling it with a little water and some clothes to make sure that it would operate again normally. Thankfully it did … so it was quite a simple problem to fix, but it was very inconvenient at the time. I’m happy to say that it’s been working fine ever since then – just like it used to.

　　他設(shè)法重新連接了它，然后我們用一些水和一些衣服來測試洗衣機，以確保它能正常工作。幸運的是，它確實做到了。所以這是一個很簡單的問題，但在當(dāng)時是非常不方便的。從那以后，它一直運轉(zhuǎn)良好，和過去一樣。