I think it's to give us a dynamic sense of the family conversation going on between them, but it also addresses one of those obvious things.

我想这是要给我们一个有活力的家庭,对话存在于他们之间的感觉，但是它也表明了一个明显的事实。

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Where, you know, you might have a single family that is using up 2 or 3 stories of the same apartment.

一个家庭也许会用上同一幢公寓的二三层楼。

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Frost was born in 1874 into a working family.

他生于1874年的一个工人家庭。

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For a typical household, the home is the major source of wealth that they've accumulated.

对于一个典型的家庭来说,他们积累的财富主要就是住宅

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He was born in relatively meager and humble circumstances in Kentucky, not what, about 80 miles from where Abraham Lincoln was born, in even meagerer circumstances.

他出生在肯塔基州一个,相对贫寒的家庭,不过不是约80英里外林肯出生的,那个更穷苦的地方

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So they've only grown up with one American family. So that's a really, really big difference.

只有一个是美国家庭的孩子。所以这差别还是很大的。

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