A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
房子
Houses
I really love houses.
我真的很喜欢房子。
I don't like being in houses alone.
我不喜欢一个人呆在房子里。
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
蠢人盖房子，聪明人买房子。
Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
女人视男人如房子。他们在寻找能解决问题的人。
Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.
他们的房子都是帐篷的形状，有很高的烟囱。
Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.
房子意味着一种创造，一种新的东西，一个摆脱洞穴概念的庇护所。
Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.
房子是我的爱好之一。我可能应该成为一名室内设计师。
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。
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
在像雅典这样的城市，尽管有豪华的公共建筑，贫穷的房屋仍然排列在狭窄曲折的街道两旁。
The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.
除了作为走廊的走廊外，很少有小房子有走廊。
Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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。
The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.
世界各地歌剧院的数量和高出席率表明，歌剧这种艺术形式比以往任何时候都更受欢迎。
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I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.
我出身贫寒，常常看着那些住在大房子里的人，以为他们什么都有。后来，我看着杂志上的模特们，觉得她们什么都有。
No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.
这个国家从来没有人乞求过，因为所有人的家都是共同的;他们认为慷慨和好客是首要的美德。
When you're on TV and in people's houses - it's great that anybody watches anything you've done, but you feel as though you're being watched by Big Brother sometimes. Even if people have no idea who you are, you get the feeling you're being watched.
当你在电视上或者在别人家里的时候——任何人都能看到你做的任何事情，这很好，但是有时候你会觉得自己被老大哥监视着。即使人们不知道你是谁，你也会有被监视的感觉。
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。
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
你知道晚上回家对一个会给你一点爱，一点感情，一点温柔的女人意味着什么吗?这意味着你在错误的房子里，这就是它的意思。
Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.
就像今天的公寓一样，房屋的露台从相同的立面获得了某种匿名性，遵循相同的平面和高度。