Bob's very practical. He does all the odd jobs around the house.

鲍勃心灵手巧，家里的零活他都包了。

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The Petroleum Jelly Trap: This method is more practical if you only come across a cockroach once or twice a week, and if you’re dealing with a small colony somewhere around your house.

凡士林陷阱： 这种方法更适用于只是一周遇见一两次小强的人，而且你对付的只是房子某处集中的一小撮小强。

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Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

贫穷对诗歌是很好的，但对房子很不好；对箴言和说教是很好的，但对实际人生很不好。

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Resolving such a dispute sounds like a matter for the courts, but the judiciary is unlikely to be of much practical help now to the House.

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"I accepted the kind invitation to enter the House of Lords as a working peer for practical political reasons, " he said when his peerage was first announced.

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Republicans essentially held their numbers in the House, and in practical terms, the GOP actually lost zero seats in the Senate, since the Senate GOP is more conservative than it was before the election.

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