"The house could seem almost holy in its lack of artifice," he writes by way of explaining that his grandparents' house had plastic furniture covers and plastic fruit.

“房子因其缺乏设计和装饰而显得近乎神圣，”对于祖父母的房子内的塑料家具和塑料水果，作者这样解释道。

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On Christmas Day, Jim's family were in his grandparents' house.

在圣诞节，吉姆一家人在他祖父母的家里。

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He used to live with his grandparents in a large house, with trees round it.

他曾和他的祖父母住在一座大房子里，四周皆是树木。

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Last year, Luke Boswell, a retired businessman who lives in Cincinnati, and his extended family moved their roughly 6, 000-square-foot summer house built by his grandparents in the late 1920s on New York's Fishers Island because of coastal erosion.

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