一些住家船本身就是办公室，有朝向水面的大窗户；还有一些则是用檐板盖起来的小屋子，带有窗栏花箱。

Some of the houseboats are offices, with large Windows facing the water; some are little houses covered in clapboard, with window boxes.

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如今，人们严格遵守着不在河中用香皂洗澡的规定，也不再把装满金盏花塑料袋漂在水面上。

Now people strictly observe the rule against bathing with soap in the river, and there are no longer plastic bags full of marigold offerings floating on its surface.

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是不是因为我们受过糟糕的教育，从幼小的童年开始就只培养记忆，却从未被带到一棵树、一朵花或一泓水面前？

Is it because we have been badly educated, cultivating only memory and, from earliest childhood, have never been shown a tree, a flower, a bird, or a stretch of water?

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