当一个人回赴看他童年时期所住的房子时，总是(always)觉得房子变小了：绝不会不房子一如回忆和想像中那样大的状况。

When a man goes back to look at the house of his childhood, it has always shrunk: there is no instance of such a house being as big as the picture in memory and imagination call for.

youdao

个人收入增加了——这是“洗具”；但我们的房子却变小了——这是“杯具”。

Individual incomes are growing -that's the xiju; but our houses are getting smaller -that's the beiju.

youdao

个人收入增加了——这是“洗具”；但我们的房子却变小了——这是“杯具”。

I ndividual incomes are growing – that's the xiju; but our houses are getting smaller – that's the beiju.

youdao