The large building where he was housed served what today seems an odd function: preemptive isolation for children thought to be at risk of catching tuberculosis.

安置唐纳德的大楼有一项今天看起来很古怪的功能：对有感染肺结核风险的儿童进行先行隔离。

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To explain the form of a whole building through its relationship with a finial detail of another seems over-inflated, and it's an odd tribute to a slave-owner.

通过它与一个尖顶细节和另一个则似乎过度扩展的关系来诠释整个建筑的形式，并且它也近似是一个给奴隶主的奇怪的贡品。

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Like I told you, I'm working odd jobs, I'm building a company that's going to make us a lot of money, whether you think it's a pie in the sky or not.

就像我和你说过的，我在打零工，我要开家公司让我们能赚很多钱，不管你是不是认为这是天上掉馅饼。

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Between them, the fiscal investment and loan programme and the 30-odd special budgets for specific undertakings (eg, road building) add up to more than the national budget.

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As a child growing up in Langham I knew of this odd 25-foot tall, 40-foot wide Christmas pudding of a building on the edge of the airfield where my father, somewhat unsuccessfully, first tried to teach me to drive.

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Which is odd, as we produce some 100 million cubic metres of waste each year (this includes all the building rubble etc).

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