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日常生活中我们少不了要做家务，比如打扫房间、洗衣服、刷碗等等。那你知道在英语中这些事务该怎么表达吗？下面我们一起来学习一下吧。
1. You had better clean up your room for your guest as soon as possible. 你最好尽快收拾一下你的房间，以备客人到来。
类似表达：You had better tidy up your room for your guest as soon as possible.
You had better straighten up your room for your guest as soon as possible.
You had better do your room for your guest as soon as possible.
You had better make up your room for your guest as soon as possible.
You had better fix your room for your guest as soon as possible.
回答：I will do that right now. 我马上就去做。
I'm fully occupied. Could you please help do the room? 我现在太忙了。能请你帮我整理吗？
I will do that as soon as I am free. 我一有空就去整理。
2. I need you to help me with the laundry. 我需要你帮我洗一下衣服。
类似表达：I want you to help me to do the laundry.
I need your help to do the laundry.
I want you to help to wash the clothes.
Could you help me to do some washing?
Could you help me with the laundry?
回答：OK! I'm coming. 好的！我马上就来。
Sure! But I think I can help you half an hour later. 当然可以！但是我认为我半个小时之后才能帮你。
No, you should do it yourself. You should keep your business to yourself. 不，你应该自己做。自己的事情自己做。
I am too occupied to help you. 我太忙了，帮不了你。
3. I will do the dishes. 我会洗碗。
类似表达：I will wash the dishes.
I will get the dishes washed.
4. We alternate in doing the housework. 我们轮流做家务。
类似表达：We do the housework in turn.
We take turns to do the housework.
We are given a turn to do the housework.
回答：That's good. 挺好的。
In my family, it was only my wife who does the housework. 在我家里，只有我妻子做家务。
You should employ a nursemaid to do that. 你应该雇个保姆做家务。
5. I am quite tired of the housework. 我非常厌倦做家务。
类似表达：I am weary of the housework.
I am fed up with the housework.
I hate to do the housework.
I don't like to do the housework.
回答：Me, too. 我也是。
I never do the housework. It's always my wife who does the housework. 我从来不做家务。一直都是我妻子来做。
You can employ a housekeeper to do that. 你可以雇一个保姆来做。
6. I'd like to share the housework with you. 我想和你分担家务。
类似表达：I want to share the housework with you.
I think we should share the housework between us.
Could we share the housework fifty-fifty?
I think we ought to share the housework equally.
回答：I do agree. 我同意。
I think so, too. 我也这么认为。
That's what I want. 这正是我想要的。
That's really a good idea. 真是一个好主意。
A: You had better tidy up your room for your guest as soon as possible, Tom.
A：汤姆，你最好尽快把你的房间收拾一下，以备客人来访。
B: Yeah, I know that. But I am too occupied to do anything else. Could you help me clean the room, mom?
B：嗯，我知道。但是我现在太忙了，顾不上去做其他事情。你能帮我收拾房间吗，妈妈？
A: OK! I am coming.
A：好的！我马上来。
B: Thank you so much, mom.
B：非常感谢您，妈妈。
A: Mary, my workmate and I will go shopping this Sunday. Will you join us?
A：玛丽，这周日我要和我同事去逛街。你要一起去吗？
B: I'd like to, but I've got a lot of laundry to do.
B：我想去，但是我得洗好多衣服。
A: Oh, what a pity it is! Can you leave it to your husband this time?
A：噢，太遗憾了！这次你能让你丈夫来洗吗？
B: He is busy with his program every day.I have to do all the housework.
B：他每天都忙于他的项目。我得做所有的家务。
A: I share the housework fifty-fifty with my husband. Maybe you can also try this.
A：我和我丈夫一起平摊家务。或许，你也可以这样试试。
B: I will try as soon as he finishes his program.
B：他一完成项目，我就试。
laundry [ˈlɔ:ndrɪ] n. 待洗的衣服；洗好的衣服；洗衣店，洗衣房；洗熨
occupied [ˈɒkjʊpaɪd] adj. 忙的，无空闲的；已占据的，已占用的；在使用的
· clean up 收拾，打扫，整理
clean up可与tidy up、straighten up、fix等互换，均为“整理、收拾、打扫”之意。
· take turns to do sth 轮流做某事，轮换做某事
take turns to do sth也可以用作take one's turn to do sth，相当于alternate to do sth、be given a turn to do sth、do sth in turn等。