Fire! Fire! "What terrible words to hear when one is waken up in a strange house in the middle of the night!"

“火！火！”，午夜里在一个陌生的房间中听到这样的字眼是多么的令人恐惧！

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To live in a strange house with strange people is little short of torture, while the height of bliss is to receive the kind looks of women, and never to be slighted by them.

和一群陌生人同住在陌生的房子中丝毫不亚于受到百般折磨，而最大的欣慰也不过是被其中的女人投以慈爱的目光而非受到她们的诃责。

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Discovering that I was only self-possessed with peo - ple I knew intimately, I would often go to a strange house where I knew I would spend a wretched hour for schooling sake.

我发现，只有在面对熟人之时自己才能做到镇定自若，于是我便来到一座陌生的屋子，尽管知道这一个小时会很难熬，但毕竟能受教良多。

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He took a room in an old house next to a magnificent garden filled with strange flowers and other plants.

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And now at the dead hour of the night, in the horrible silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror.

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It culminates in Ruth, alone in a strange house, gamely wielding a kitchen knife like a gladiator as an intruder slips in through a window.

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The teenage girl testified Saturday that she could not recall what happened the night of the attack but remembered waking up naked in a strange house after drinking at a party.

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He was once studying a strange-looking house, figuring that it was a meth lab, when a pickup truck suddenly wheeled out of the driveway and blocked his path.

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