Savings and Loans are the same as Building Societies, but the idea--the original idea and also the general idea today -is that these are banks set up for small savers in order that they can buy a house.

储贷协会和建房互助协会是一回事,其初衷以及现在的一般理念是,这些银行的建立是为了,让小额储蓄者买得起房子

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And then I've started taking lessons at a small academy just a couple of streets away from my house.

然后我开始在离我家几条街的一家小型学院上课。

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Very small. And big fields outside the back of my house.

非常小。我家后面有一块大的田地。

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