A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
房子
House
The house roof fights the rain, but he who is sheltered ignores it.
房顶防雨，避雨的人却不避雨。
The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
唯一真正的放纵是买房。这是一个很大的进步。
A plaster house, a horse at grass, a friend in words, are all mere glass.
灰泥房子，草地上的马，言语上的朋友，都不过是玻璃。
A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.
一座伟大的歌剧院不是由导演经营的，而是由一位伟大的管理者经营的。
If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
世上若有一幢房屋，其中有许多大厦，那就是文字的房屋。
I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
如果有人在家里，我就不能写，即使是清洁女工也不行。
Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.
把你的房子装满书，在所有的缝隙和角落里。
Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
肯尼迪是一个喜欢作家的人，甚至我也被邀请到白宫。
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
把建造鸡舍和建造大教堂看作是同样可取的。
The fellow that owns his own house is always just coming out of a hardware store.
有自己房子的人总是刚从五金店出来。
If you're going to live in the house make it your goal to just pay off your mortgage.
如果你打算住在这所房子里，把还清抵押贷款作为你的目标。
It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.
把那个粗鲁无礼的政客送回白宫是违反常理的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Every man is master in his own house.
每个人都是自己家里的主人。
My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
我最早的记忆是梦一般的:在一个小果园或花园里，我相信，是父亲搀扶着我;有一群成年人，其中有我的母亲，这群人正在果园里慢慢地走着，似乎朝着房子走去。
For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.
有一段时间我不能独自离开房子。即使我只是一个人在杂货店买东西，我也会感到不自在。
It's not the size of the house. It's how much love is inside.
不是房子的大小。而是内在的爱。
I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line.
我完全赞成卖书，但是当有人把我的房子烧了的时候，我就不卖书了。