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摘要：国际大学生涌入伦敦加剧了大范围的房屋短缺，而学生公寓也因此成为了伦敦房地产市场的另一块香饽饽。你知道怎么用英语表达吗?

International college students are pouring into London, deepening an extensive housing shortage. The result is that student housing is becoming another red-hot corner of the city"s property market.

That has tempted international pension funds, major private equity players and real estate giants to build up or sell off large portfolios of buildings for handsome profits.

About £3.5 billion worth of British student housing deals have been done so far in 2015, according to the real estate consulting firm JLL. That"s more than double the value of deals completed in 2014.

国际大学生涌入伦敦加剧了大范围的房屋短缺，而学生公寓也因此成为了伦敦房地产市场的另一块香饽饽。

这促使外国养老基金、各大私募股权投资公司和房地产巨头，囤积或抛售大量楼宇以赚取可观的利润。

据房地产咨询公司仲量联行透露，到目前为止，2015年英国学生公寓成交额达到35亿英镑左右，是2014全年成交额的两倍多。

【讲解】

文中的student housing就是“学生公寓”的意思，其中housing是不可数名词，意为“房屋，住宅”，如：They are living in good housing conditions. (他们住房条件非常好。);如果表达“一间间的房屋、住宅”，可以用house或residence来表示，如：build a house (建房)，private residences(私人住宅)

第二段中的handsome是形容词，在此处解释为“(金额)相当大的，可观的”，如：They will make a handsome profit on the property. (他们会从这片地产中赚取丰厚的利润。)