The money came mostly from the weekly pay the children get from their parents for good behavior or work around the house.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

I wonder how you guys share the house work.

我在想你们是怎样分配家务的。

有趣的室友们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I mean, they live in the house, they get fed,probably with everybody else, they work with the master; the difference being that they are slaves rather than free men.

他们住在奴隶主家,他们和大家一起吃饭,他们和主人一起耕作,唯一不同之处在于,他们是奴隶而不是自由人

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

While the exhibit is going on, Tucker will be working on his latest work, the White House where the American president lives.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

They said, it's not going to work because you have to decide how much the house is insured for and then anybody--If you ever make a mistake and you insure it for too much, then the people who realize they've got one on the insurance company-- they've insured the house for more than it's worth-- they'll burn down their house and collect the money.

他们说，火险根本无法实施,因为你必须判断,这房子的保价是多少,一旦你出现了一些失误,保价评估得过高，那些意识到他们可能会从,保险公司赚利的人们-,即保险公司的保价高于房子的实际价值-,他们就会烧掉自己的房子来赚钱。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The White House says President Obama stated his strong wish to work together to strengthen global economic recovery and fight climate change.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

In time,Eunice's mother went to work cleaning house for a white woman in the town.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

They bought an old ruined house and began the costly work of repairing it.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

Biltmore employs more than six-hundred-fifty people who work in the house and gardens.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

The child survived. Then she was sent to work in the Brodas's house.

VOA: special.2011.02.13

Forty-two-year-old Renu Bose came to New Delhi from her village in West Bengal state to work as a house maid, two years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

In brief remarks at the White House, the president urged Republicans and Democrats to work together to come up with responsible fiscal policies.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Respectfully,but forcefully." Mr.Obama's top advisors indicate that is the way things work in the White House.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

And last year, the Obama White House announced that senior administration appointees would work closely with the Census Bureau in supervising the 2010 Census.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

A New Exhibit at Cairo's Opera House highlights the work of Egyptian Saad Romany Mikhaiel.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Democratic leaders have said they are committed to bringing the Iran sanctions bill to a vote before the House completes its legislative work for the year.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

"If we are able to work something out with the borrower, were they get to keep their house, and my client gets to have payments according to the mortgage, that's a win for everybody."

VOA: standard.2010.02.17