Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.

  • -- Ted Dexter 德克斯特

同情的裂缝。建筑师和测量员常用的术语,指老化的房屋。我知道他们的意思。

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The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

人们最初由于所选择的位置而被迫养成了在桩子上盖房子的习惯,后来就像在荷兰一样,人们也把这种习惯作为一种品味来遵循。

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

如果你要在空中建造什么东西,建造城堡总比建造纸牌屋要好。

Don't talk to me about Valentines Day. At my age an affair of the heart is a bypass!

别跟我提情人节的事。在我这个年纪,一件事的心是旁路!

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

我期待着变老,变聪明,变大胆。