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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LL: Well, I can understand why it's still up for grabs...the bedroom is small, the house smells of cigarette smoke, and the housemates seems strange!

就是，怪不得没人愿意租，不仅地方小，屋里都是烟味，而且那两个室友也都怪怪的。 我们还是去看下一家吧，就在街对面。

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Of course, it's strange that there's this house standing in the middle of the road.

当然，马路中间立着一栋房子也太奇怪了吧。

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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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So the language that different early Christians used about each other, and for themselves,was sometimes very common Greek language, but sometimes it would've also sounded strange and kind of in-house to other people.

所以早期基督教徒所使用的不同的,互称或自称的称谓，有些其实是普通的希腊语，但有时听起来很奇怪,对其他人来说像黑话。

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