Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city.

每一本书都自成体系，就像一家一户的住宅，而图书馆里的藏书好比城市里千家万户的居所。

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One day, Rama's family went to their beach house to spend their vacation.

一天，罗摩一家去他们的海滨别墅度假。

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My family and I moved into our country house one month ago.

我和我的家人一个月前搬进了乡下的房子。

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The White House has one hundred thirty-two rooms, including sixteen family and guest rooms, thirty-five bathrooms and three kitchens.

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When it is cold outside, the president and his family can warm up near one of the White House's twenty-eight fireplaces.

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Living conditions in these are basic at best - a one-room family-house with a tiny shed-like kitchen-conversion and often no private toilet - but it is this unusual mix of ancient aristocratic architecture and current-day, salt-of-the-earth locals that gives the hutong alleys their unique character.

BBC: Old Beijing at its timeless best

It crossed the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, a park named for the senator's mother and one-time family matriarch, and passed the Massachusetts State House and the home that John Kennedy lived in when he first ran for Congress in 1946.

CNN: The story

Yet, when I left my abusive ex-husband -- an Ivy League Wall Street trader who kept three loaded guns in our house -- I had no one to accompany me to family court to get my temporary restraining order made permanent, and no one to help me begin divorce proceedings.

CNN: Why abused women stay in bad relationships