A: Recently I’ve been looking for a house to rent.
B: Don’t you live in a studio apartment at the moment?
A: No, it’s a shared flat, there’s hardly any space and the kitchen and the bathroom are shared.
B: I live in a shared flat too, it’s quite noisy and there’s no personal space.
A: 我最近在找出租套房。
B: 你現在住的不是套房嗎?
A: 不是,是雅房,空間很小,廚房和衛浴都和其他房客共用。
B: 我住的也是雅房,比較吵又沒隱私。
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