It is precisely this inverted snobbery that has hindered Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits from gaining the critical attention it deserves.

正是这种反势利感阻碍了伊莎贝尔·阿连德的《幽灵之家》获得应有的批评关注。

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Beauty speaks to their spirits through the senses; but Tolstoy would have your house barren to the verge of hardship.

美，经过人们的感官提悦他们的精神，可是，托尔斯泰要让你的房子简陋至困苦的边缘。

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They are in good spirits, as the spirit of the house demands.

这些游客们心情愉悦，正是这房子所要求的。

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For Ian Hart, the co-founder of Sacred Spirits Company, which operates out of a north London house in the well-heeled suburb of Highgate, gin-making came about almost by accident.

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Forensic investigators have already told the inquest that the fire started when someone who was inside the house set light to a mixture of petrol and white spirits which had been poured in the hall.

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