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The small houses were in the nearest part of the city. Square rooms opened on to a grid of narrow passages, criss-crossing to make streets.

矮小的房舍座落在离城市最近的一部份。方正的房间通往有如格子状的狭小的通道，交织成密密的街道。

A few days later the young minister of a church near Gates Avenue passed the two houses and saw the men working.

几天之后，盖茨大道附近一座教堂的一名年轻的牧师从两家的房边经过，看到两个男人在那里忙活着。

When innovative technology is applied to cars, houses or other everyday things everyone seems to celebrate progress.

当创新技术应用于汽车、住宅以及其他的日常用品时，每个人似乎都为取得这样的进步而欢呼雀跃。

Tess soon went onward into the village, her footsteps echoing against the houses as though it were a place of the dead.

苔丝不久走进了村子，她的脚步声传到两边房子的墙上再反射回来，仿佛这儿是一个死人的国度。

The landscape is distinctive too, with grand castles and half-timbered houses topped by storks that look like the set of a Disney movie.

景观更是别具特色，有宏伟的城堡和顶部以鹳装饰的露明木架房子，俨然活在迪士尼电影布景里。

His wife went into the outhouse, which in old houses was always right next to the pigpen.

他的妻子去上厕所，厕所就在猪圈旁的旧屋子里。

Grief-stricken families searched the woods, the local buildings, and all the houses and barns, but there was no sign of the missing girls.

悲伤的家人们四处找寻，森林、建筑物、所有的房屋和谷仓都找遍了，但哪儿都没有这些孩子们的踪影。

What was more admirable was that he is blessed with a happy family, beautiful wife and lovely children, luxurious houses and expensive cars.

更令人羡慕的是，他有着幸福的家庭、娇妻美子、汽车豪宅等。

This year, some of its inhabitants told me with satisfaction, it finally tore down the last of its old houses.

今年，当地的居民满意的告诉我，最后的几所老房子终于被拆掉了。

'There was fire everywhere, ' she said. 'It burned away all the houses. Only concrete columns are still standing. '

她说，到处都是火，所有的房子都烧没了，只有混凝土柱子还在。

Yet Pullman did not reduce the cost of rent for his houses. Anyone who protested lost his job.

然而，普尔曼却并没有减少工人们的房租，任何对此表示抗议的人都会失去工作。

So each night he took a sack of grain from his bin and crept across the field between their houses, dumping it into his brother's bin.

于是每天晚上，他都从自己粮食中拿出一袋，蹑手蹑脚的穿过空地，把粮食倒入他兄弟的粮仓中。

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful .

不要让你的房子里有一件你不确信它有用的东西，或是你不认为是美的东西。

But to his disappointment, the prices of houses have gone down ever since the beginning of this year.

但是使他失望的是，从今年年初开始，房价一直在跌。

This was the only equipment he took to haunted houses.

这种相机是他带去鬼屋的唯一工具。

Then in seeking battle we milled around between the enemy's main forces and his block houses and were reduced to complete passivity.

尔后辗转寻战于敌之主力和堡垒之间，完全陷入被动地位。

But men, as you know, are always finding new ways of building houses, and improved methods of doing almost all kinds of labor.

但是众所周知，人类在建房的时候，一直在开发新的方法，改进所有的劳动方式。

Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?

这殿仍然荒凉，你们自己还住天花板的房屋吗？

But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.

你们出去，到底是要看什么，要看穿细软衣服的人吗，那穿细软衣服的人，是在王宫里。

Colonel Qaddafi decided it was time to leave, and planned to flee to one of his houses nearby, where he had been born.

卡扎菲做出的决定是，到时候该离开了，他计划逃到他出生时所在的那处房子。