A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
房子
House
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
书不是用来做家具的，但是没有什么比书更能装饰一所房子了。
The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.
房子本身并不重要。它与社区的关系才是真正重要的。
Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
当音乐家很容易。我的房子里到处都是乐器。总是有很多音乐。
I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!
当我还是个小孩玩打火机的时候，我把我们的房子点着了。天啊，我把这地方烧了!
I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
我非常幸运，因为我回到家，我不需要跑腿，打扫房间和做所有这些。
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
每当我们邻居的房子着火时，我们自己的引擎就会发动一点，这是不会错的。
I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.
除了工作，我生活中什么都没有。我被它迷住了。我只有在迫不得已的时候才会离开家。
T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
那是圣诞节的前一天晚上，屋子里没有一个动物在动，连一只老鼠也没有。
Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.
即使我没有钱上声乐课，我也要在家里自己练习大声唱歌。
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
发明家对他的发明的权利不是垄断——从任何意义上说，就像一个人的房子是垄断一样。
Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.
我们的城堡并不宏伟，但建造得很好，周围有一个非常漂亮的花园。我住在法警的房子里。
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。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.
一旦你明白了这一点，你就能让你的房间充满活力;你可以和你的家人一起设计房子;给你的孩子一个花园;你可以工作的地方;美丽的露台，您可以坐在那里梦想。
I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house.
我想如果我没有在我的房子里长大，我的生活会少一些动荡。
I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.
我做家务，但我没有得到零用钱。我洗碗扫地……我经常扫地，我妈妈总是希望我拿把扫帚，然后一直在地板上昂首阔步。
Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?
我在这所房子里坐了四十年，竟蒙人传扬我的名，又蒙羞受辱，难道不是我的羞辱吗?
The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
身体是灵魂可怜的家，它的肋骨是板条，它的肉是壤土。
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。