Apartment or House
公寓/房屋
The apartment I live in now is located in Haidian District and it's in a very clean and convenient neighborhood. I've lived there for about three years. We used to live in a brick house,in a courtyard, but my father's business began to do very well so we can afford a better place.
我现在住的房子是在海淀区，那里有很安静很方便的邻里氛围，我住那大概有3年了。以前我们是住在一个院子里的砖房里，但是由于我爸爸生意做得好，我们就可以住上更好的房子了。
There are 3 bedrooms in the apartment. One is for my father and mother and another is for me. The other bedroom is used as a guest bed room. The apartment is about a hundred square meters, and it has a large living room and two bathrooms—one is in my parents' room. We have some comfortable chairs and a fairly large TV in the center, we also have a stereo set and a karaoke set as well. I should mention that the kitchen is quite large compared to many other families because we extended it by knocking out the wall of another room. My mother likes large kitchen because she said she wanted a comfortable place to cook.
套房总共有3间卧室，一间为我爸妈卧室，一间为我的卧室，另外一间是为客人准备的。套房大概有100平方米，里面有一间大的客厅和两个浴室——其中我爸妈房间里有一个浴室。我们有非常舒适的椅子，中间有个相当大的电视机，我们还有音响设备和卡拉OK设备。与很多家庭比起来我们有相对较大的厨房，因为打通了另外一间房子的墙。我妈妈喜欢大厨房，她说她想要有个非常舒适的做饭环境。
Frankly speaking I don't like the apartment very much,even though it is much larger and cleaner than our previous living place. I think I got too attached to my previous house. I grew up there and knew many children of the neighbors. We played in the courtyard after school, till the mothers called our names to have dinner. But here we know nobody. Every door is locked inside and people seldom exchange greetings. I think it's important to have friendly neighbors.
老实说，我并不是十分喜欢我的新家，尽管它比之前的房子大多了而且干净多了。我想我更喜欢我之前的家，我是在那长大的，在那里我也认识了很多邻居家的孩子们，放学后我们总一起在后院玩耍直到妈妈叫我们吃饭为止。但是在这里，我不认识任何人，每家每户都紧锁着门，人们很少有交流。我觉得有个友好的邻里关系是非常重要的。