The number of new houses being built is a good index of a country's prosperity.
新建房屋的数目是国家繁荣的一个有用指标。
The houses are all of a piece.
这些房子千篇一律。
What was found at Gonur-Depe was amazing: the ruins of a huge palace complex, the foundations of shops and houses, the remains of thick walls and towers that fortified the city.
在戈纳德比的发现是惊人的：一个巨大的宫殿建筑群的废墟、商店和房屋的地基、厚重的墙的遗迹以及用于防护城市的塔楼。
It was a close-knit community of rectangular, one-story mud-brick houses, joined by narrow lanes and courtyards, finally abandoned about 5000 B.C.
它是一座结构紧凑的村庄，有着与狭窄小道和院子相连的矩形单层泥砖房屋，这座村庄最终于公元前5000年被废弃。
In 1993, the owners of a large hotel and of several houses discovered, to their horror, that their gardens had disappeared overnight.
1993年，一家大型旅馆的店主和几所房子的房主们惊恐地发现，他们的花园一夜之间消失了。
But when it came to their houses, it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more.
但谈到房子的问题，情况完全不同。当时的人们普遍相信少即是多。
A single implementation of Si He Yuan comprises of garden surrounded by four houses and protected by high walls.
四合院由花园和保护的高墙构成，花园被四个房子环绕着。
When humans first started building houses, determining whether they would work as planned was mostly a matter of trial and error.
人类最初开始建造房屋时，决定它们是否如计划一样奏效的方法几乎是去试一下，看看有什么不妥的地方。
At the very least, it has awoken us from our national fever dream of easy riches and bigger houses, and put a necessary end to an era of reckless personal spending.
至少，它让我们从轻易致富和拥有更大房子的狂热梦想中醒来，并为一个不计后果的个人消费时代画上了一个必然的句号。
The furniture, with its modern style and bright colours, suits modern houses and their gardens, but looks out of place in the garden of a traditional home.
这款家具款式时尚，颜色鲜艳，适合放在现代化的房子和花园里，但是放在传统住宅的花园里就显得不伦不类了。
A train rocketed by, shaking the walls of the row houses.
一辆火车疾驰而过，震动着排房的墙壁。
The jet plummeted into a row of houses.
那架喷气式飞机一头栽进一排房子里。
The building is open to the public and houses a museum of motorcycles and cars.
这座大楼对公众开放，并设有一个摩托车和汽车博物馆。
At last we came in sight of a few houses.
最后，我们看到了几座房屋。
There was a row of brick houses, blackened by smoke.
那里有一排砖房，全被烟熏黑了。
A production of 'Carmen' was playing to packed houses.
剧作《卡门》上演爆棚。
The village is a settlement of just fifty houses.
这个村子是个仅有50家住户的定居地。
The building houses a wide and diverse variety of antiques.
这栋楼里摆放着大量各式各样的古董。
Urban areas have a density of human structures such as houses, commercial buildings, roads and bridges.
城市地区有密集的人类建筑，如房屋、商业建筑、道路和桥梁。
A few blocks east of Gratiot, multicoloured polka dots, stripes and squiggles appear on the street, then the houses explode in a riot of colours and textures.
厄特往东几个街区，街上出现了五颜六色的圆点、条纹和曲线，接着便是房屋在丰富的色彩和花纹的中爆裂。
In the second place, we cleaned their houses from top to bottom, getting rid of the dirt accumulated for years and giving a brand-new environment to them.
第二，我们彻底清扫了他们的房子，清除了多年积累的灰尘，给他们一个全新的环境。
The neighbors came out of their houses to see if we had a gas leak.
邻居们从他们的房子里出来看看我们是否出现了煤气泄漏。
A century ago Octavia Hill launched the National Trust not to rescue stylish houses but to save "the beauty of natural places for everyone forever."
一个世纪之前，奥克塔维亚·希尔发起建立了国民信托组织，不是为了拯救时尚的楼房，而是“为公众永远保存自然场所之美”。
Seeing that local people were suffering from disease, he built ladders and houses on a high mountain to store hundreds of medical plants.
他看到当地居民患病，就在一座高山上建造了梯子和房屋，用来储存数百种药用植物。
Suddenly it was announced that the "empty" land would be improved by a lot of houses on it.
突然间，政府宣布将在这块“空”土地上修建大量房屋，以改善其状况。
A lot of English people go to different mansion houses to go and see their gardens.
很多英国人去参观不同的宅邸和它们的花园。
Seafood lovers should make a pilgrimage to the fishing town of Sok Kwu Wan, which houses an abundance of terraced restaurants on stilts above the bay.
海鲜爱好者应该漫游到索罟湾的渔镇，那里有着很多台阶形的餐馆，好像是在海湾上踩高跷。
The Houses of Parliament are built from a mix of asparagus, green beans and runner beans which are mixed with baby sweetcorn to depict the intricate stonework.
英国国会大厦是由芦笋、青豆和红花菜豆与甜玉米混合而成，以描绘复杂的石雕。
The popularity of jeans and the "untidy" look seems to be a reaction against the increasingly expensive fashions of the top fashion houses.
牛仔裤和“不整洁”装扮的流行似乎是对顶级时装公司日益昂贵的时尚的一种反应。
Soon after I arrived in Florence, I got a job with one of Italy's top fashion houses, Ferragamo.
我刚到佛罗伦萨不久，就在意大利顶级时装公司 Ferregamo 找到了一份工作。
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