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

It's just like if you buy a house and you buy - a lot of people are very leveraged now.

就像你买了栋房子,然后买了,很多人现在都处于负债中

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Here's how you become an accredited investor: you have $1 million dollars in investable -that's not including your house, it's in investable assets.

怎样算是合资格投资者,首先,拥有100万美元的投资资金,不包括房产,必须是可供投资的资产

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Voters also elected nine House members and two Senators from a new political organization -- the People's Party.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

He says in the middle of the poem on page 225: First there's the children's house of make-believe, Some shattered dishes underneath a pine, The playthings in the playhouse of the children.

他在225页这首诗的中间说到：,首先是假扮的孩子们的房间，松树下的一碟碟食物，那些玩具室里孩子们的玩具。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"Oh,whatever.I guess so. I'll pick you up at Wallace's house at about five-thirty, so you can get ready for trick or treating.

VOA: special.2010.10.30

Milton has shown so much promise. He possessed so many obvious talents that could be poured into the profession for which he was so clearly suited the profession of the ministry but Milton was remaining at his father's house in what seemed like a perpetual state of humiliating self-infantilization.

弥尔顿表现出了很大的决心,他拥有那么多,这个职业需要的天赋,例如牧师,而弥尔顿却选择呆在他父亲的房子里,像是一种永远羞耻的不成熟状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Every evening Sylvie left her grandmother's house at five-thirty to bring their cow home.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Now today, the standard mortgage, which you would probably get when you buy your first house, is not fifteen or twenty--it's thirty years.

今天,标准的抵押贷款,当你买第一套房子时你或许就能得到,期限不是15或者20年,而是30年

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The water flooded some of Nashville's best-known places, including the Grand Ole Opry House.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

That's because, well, when you buy your first house you might be twenty-five, so thirty years brings you to age fifty-five; that's close enough to retirement.

这是因为,你可能在25岁时买第一套房子,当还清30年的贷款时你已经55岁了,都快退休了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In seventeen ninety-three the Louvre became a national museum to house the country's treasures.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

The idea was that a lot of people can't afford a house -let's all get together and pool our money -in a Building Society or Saving and Loan Association -and then we'll loan out to some of us to buy the house.

当初的想法是,很多人都买不起房子,那我们就把钱凑在一起,放到一个建房互助协会或储贷协会里,然后向我们中那些要买房的人发放贷款

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Faith Lapidus has our story. Jimmy Carter's twenty-eighth book, "White House Diary,"

VOA: special.2010.10.15

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

But White House aides stress that President Obama believes that the U.S.-Russia relationship should be about far more than arms control.

VOA: standard.2009.07.06

Republicans would need a 40-seat gain in November to take back majority control in the U.S.House of Representatives.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

The party that controls the White House historically loses congressional seats in a new president's first mid-term elections.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

Interrupting that cycle was a primary goal of President Obama's massive economic-stimulus package, which he championed almost immediately upon entering the White House.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

Thomas Cargill from the Britain-based research group Chatham House says Zimbabwe will be one of the topics discussed during President Zuma's three-day visit to Britain.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

James Sherr,with the London-based research organization Chatham House, says there are two reasons for Russia's position, especially when it comes to Ukraine's NATO membership bid.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

White House officials acknowledge it is time to reinvigorate and update the U.S.-Japan relationship.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Nancy Pelosi made history on January 4,2007 when she was sworn in as the first female speaker of the U.S.House of Representatives in its 218-year history.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

"They just have too much impact." The White House has not taken a stand on the proposed legislation, focusing instead on President Obama's one-on-one discussions with Chinese leaders.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

Recently the U.S.House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee passed a non-binding resolution recommending that President Barack Obama recognize the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

Late Thursday, the Democratic-led House and Senate voted in support of the administration's budget framework, which calls for higher spending on domestic programs like education and health care reform.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

The image infuriated top Republicans in Washington, including Newt Gingrich - a former Speaker of the House of Representatives and a possible candidate for the party's 2012 presidential nomination.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

Brennan - who is leading a White House investigation into the incident told ABC's This Week there were bits and pieces of information about the suspect, but no definitive evidence.

VOA: standard.2010.01.03

Analyst Kerry Brown, of the London-based research group Chatham House, compared Britain's deficit to that of Greece, where financial problems have led to massive cuts in spending and deep social unrest.

VOA: standard.2010.05.13

White House officials said this was not the president's long-awaited speech to the Muslim world, although it is being seen as part of his outreach to members of the Islamic faith.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06