Buying a house nowadays is like buying clothes off the peg-the job of choosing the material and the color, taking measurements and cutting seems to be something for other people to do: construction companies and estate agents. But in most cases the people who will actually live in the houses get no chance to put a word in.
在今天，買房子像買成衣，選料挑色、量身裁製，像是別人﹘﹘建築商、房地產公司的事；反倒是真正要住房子的人，多半沒有置喙的餘地。