"They're family parties, big open house-y kind of parties with lots of cookies too many cookies and punch and eggnog.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

The lamb will then be eaten as a family meal, and its blood will be smeared on the doorposts to mark the house so the angel of death knows to pass over that house -handy and the pun works in Hebrew, as well as English, In addition, each family is to eat unleavened bread.

然后这家人把羊吃掉，然后把羊血涂在门柱上，作为标记,所以当死亡天使经过的时候便可以看到,这里有一个在希伯来语和英语中都能讲得通双关语，除此之外，每一家都要吃没有发酵的面包。

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If I were rich, I would buy a big house for my family.

要是我成了富人，就能给我的家人买一幢大房子了。

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The White House has one hundred thirty-two rooms, including sixteen family and guest rooms, thirty-five bathrooms and three kitchens.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

When it arrives, the new family member will join a long list of pets that have lived in the White House.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

He and his family would go to the house in June or early July and stay until early November.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

On January 4th, the president-elect left his house in Chicago to join his family in Washington and prepare to take office.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

In fact,you might say your house was a beehive of activity if your whole family was helping you clean.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

When it is cold outside, the president and his family can warm up near one of the White House's twenty-eight fireplaces.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

The family had to move from a costly apartment in Manhattan to a small house in Brooklyn.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

The vegetables and fruit will help provide meals for the Obama family, White House workers and guests.

VOA: special.2009.03.31

"The Brooks Brothers coat was given to the favorite doorman after Lincoln's death, at the White House,Alphonso Donn, who kept it in his family.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says at least ten members of Congress have received threats to themselves or their family members in recent days.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

Just inside the gate was a large house used by the president and his family.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

And each presidential family has left its own historical mark on America's most famous house.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

The family of ten lived in a big house and made good earnings.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

His letters from this time on are often full of talk about what he must do to support his family and to continue the repairs to his house.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

So there was bigger meal. There was a girlfriend involved, sometimes invited over to our house as well for the meal, and part of the family, and cards back and forth.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Our house had beenin Mama's family since her grandpa'sgrandpa's grandpa had come across the oceanabout a thousand years ago.

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an average family would need 27 times its yearly income to purchase a typical house.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

His house was severely damaged by the quake. He and his family are now renting an apartment in Pescara,Abruzzo's - a modern city on Italy's Adriatic coast.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

His family home is an elegant two-story manor house on spacious grounds.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

The actress,who was nominated for an Oscar for the 2003 feature film House of Sand and Fog, thanked her family, and the cast and crew of the four-episode series.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21