2018年9-12月雅思口语Part 2新题预测：机器故障

2018年9-12月雅思口语Part 2新题预测：机器故障

　　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)

　　雅思口语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.

　　我记得有一次，几年前，我的洗衣机出了问题。这是一台相当旧的机器，但它一直工作得很好，而且在清洗衣服、床单等方面很有效。

　　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.

　　不管怎样，有一天当我用它的时候，我注意到有一些水从机器下面漏出来。当这一切发生的时候，大概是在洗碗的中途。我开始吸水，我以为问题没那么严重，但几分钟后,地板上一波又一波的洗衣房的水,就好像我刚刚打开装满水的洗衣机。

　　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.

　　我不能把水拖得足够快。我不得不把机器关掉，里面还有更多的水。所以，机器停了下来，我继续试着把水擦干，最后设法把地板弄干。

　　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.

　　我根本不是一个技术人员，所以我给我的兄弟打了电话，他很擅长这样的事情，他在下午晚些时候过来看一看。他只花了5分钟就找到了问题——显然，机器后面的一个水管已经松动了，这就是为什么水从机器下面倒出来，而不是从软管里抽出来的原因。

　　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.

　　他设法重新连接了它，然后我们用一些水和一些衣服来测试洗衣机，以确保它能正常工作。幸运的是，它确实做到了。所以这是一个很简单的问题，但在当时是非常不方便的。从那以后，它一直运转良好，和过去一样。