否则我可能直接回康涅狄格州了，威尔正帮我看房子呢。

Otherwise I might just have gone straight back to Connecticut, where Will was house-sitting for me.

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现在，每当我听到朋友失去亲人，我不再打电话礼貌地提出“如果有什么我能做的……”相反，我试图想出一个特定的适合那人需要的任务，如带狗去寄宿养犬处，或在葬礼时看房子。

Now whenever I hear of a friend who's lost a loved one, I no longer call with the polite offer, "If there's anything I can do…" Instead I try to think of one specific task that suits that man's need, like taking the dog to the boarding kennel, or house sitting during the funeral.

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在买房前我们先去看一看房子。

We will go and view the house before we buy it.

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A stranger with a flair for cocktail party descriptive prose might have commented that the room, at a quick glance, looked as if it had once been tenanted by two struggling twelve-year-old lawyers or researchists.

一个鸡尾酒派对的调酒师,也能看一眼就对这件房子作出评论，他会看得出房间曾被两个奋斗的,12岁的律师或研究员租过。

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Let's say that you're watching the news and you see a story about a house that blows up,

假设你正在看新闻，你看到一条关于一幢房子爆炸的消息。

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