While the materials used to build the Shell House were fairly traditional, the design of it was anything but.
贝壳屋的建筑材料很普通，但它的设计风格独一无二。
"The shell masks the pilings so that the house doesn't look like it's standing with its pant legs pulled up," said Huff.
“外壳遮住了桩子，这样房子看起来就不像拉着裤腿站着。”赫夫说。
Whether the White House could have got more from an already shell-shocked Congress remains an open question.
白宫是否能从已经开壳的国会得到更多的资金还是一个悬而未决的问题。
British trooper W. Williamson rescues a puppy from the ruins of a shell-damaged house in Geilenkirchen, Germany, in November 1944. (AP Photo).
1944年11月，德国格林克钦，英国士兵W .威廉森从被炸毁的房屋废墟中救出一条小狗。
A shell corporation, Triad Management, had paid more than three million dollars for attack ads in twenty-six House RACES and three Senate RACES.
表面上，是Triad Management公司投入三百多万美元在26次众议院选举和3次参议员选举中发布攻击性广告。
As I stood there, hushed and still, I could swear that the house was not an empty shell but lived and breathed as it had lived before.
我肃然站在宅子前，竟断定它不是一个空洞的躯壳，而像过去那样是有生命的、在呼吸着的活物。
A louse and a flea kept house together and were brewing beer in an egg-shell.
一只虱子和一只跳蚤住在一起，它们还一同在蛋壳里酿酒。
The shell of the house is light and the core dark; the Spaces in between becoming terraces, loggias.
房屋的外壳明亮，内核昏暗。两者之间的空间成为露台和凉廊。
"In the event of a storm, the shell should break apart and let the waves rush under the house, "the architect explained.
建筑设计师还解释说．当遇到大风暴时．房子的这个外壳就会自动断裂使急流从房子底下涌出。
When they have long lived in a house, it becomes natural to them. They are almost as closely connected with it as the tortoise with his shell.
他们在一幢房屋里长久居住之后，就会习惯这幢房屋，而产生有如乌龟与龟壳一样的紧密关系。
Buying a house, you have to shell out a lot of money. Since the 70's, the mortgage has increased a whopping 60%.
买房子要一大笔数目的钱，从上世纪的70年代到今天，抵押金上涨了60%。
The painting of the exposed surfaces such as outside shell, superstructure, deck house, funnel and living space shall be free from sag and run.
暴露表面的油漆，如外壳板，上层建筑，甲板室，烟囱和居住区等应该无流挂及油漆道。
South Korean officials said the latest accident took place at dawn during a military exercise when a star shell struck through two walls of an old woman's house.
韩国官员说，最新的事故是，一项军事演习昨天黎明时分出差错，一枚照明弹的弹壳击穿一个老妇家的两堵墙。
Indeed, the distinctive, concrete, shell-like structure of the Sydney Opera House has made it the internationally recognized symbol of Australia's largest city.
确实，悉尼歌剧院独特、鲜明、贝壳状的造型使其成为国际公认的，澳大利亚最大城市的象征。
But the abandoned shell of a new luxury hotel and the dark empty corridors of the main guest-house in Yongchang suggest the romance is proving slow to take hold more widely.
但看到一座新建的豪华酒店成了烂尾楼、永昌主要招待所的黑暗空旷的走廊，说明这种浪漫情怀正在消散。
But the abandoned shell of a new luxury hotel and the dark empty corridors of the main guest-house in Yongchang suggest the romance is proving slow to take hold more widely.
但看到一座新建的豪华酒店成了烂尾楼、永昌主要招待所的黑暗空旷的走廊，说明这种浪漫情怀正在消散。
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