I couldn't afford the house I really wanted, so I had to settle for second best.

我真心想要的房子我买不起，所以只得退而求其次了。

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Preface your remarks with something like: "I know you'll think I'm silly but in my house I don't want…"

可以这样开头：“我知道你们会认为我很傻，但在我的房子里，我不想……”

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Preface your remarks with something like: 'I know you'll think I'm silly but in my house I don't want…'

可以这样开头：‘我知道你们会认为我很傻，但在我的房子里，我不想……’

youdao

"I think the most important thing about the house is just how much energy it really does conserve.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

In 1988, we asked people in Los Angeles, are you worried that unless I buy now I won't be able to afford a house in the future?

如果在1988年问洛杉矶居民,你担不担心,如果现在不买房,以后恐怕会买不起

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and then I worked in an auction house; "Christie's", for a year before applying to come back to graduate school.

在我申请研究生院之前我还在佳士得拍卖行工作了一年。

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To wit: Some 35 years ago, I bought the house I still live in.

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We lived in a house I owned in Fort Greene, a bad neighborhood at the time.

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One abiding memory I have is a visit they made to the village house I had in Cyprus in 1990.

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