Costner's voice is instantly recognizable on the phone-a soft, slow Californian drawl as reassuring as a family doctor making a house call .

科斯特纳的声音从话筒里可以立刻辨认出来。他的声音柔和、缓慢，带有加利福尼亚口音，好象家庭医生上门看病人时的宽慰声音。

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Once you are out of your house, call the fire department from a neighbor's house.

一旦你离开你的房子，从邻居的房子打电话给消防部门。

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He kept FBI agents on call 24 hours a day to do random tasks around his house—like repairing his lawnmower.

他让 FBI 特工每天24小时待命，围绕着自己的房子去执行一些随机的任务——比如说修理他的剪草机。

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That still leaves Afghanistan. On Wednesday,by a wide majority, the United States House of Representatives rejected a call for a quick withdrawal of American troops.

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The poor showing added to mounting pressure for Prime Minister Taro Aso to dissolve the Lower House of the parliament and call a general election.

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But international security expert Paul Cornish from the Chatham House in London says it is too early to call the British operation in Helmand province a success.

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On a house call a few months ago, we encountered a guy who loves to debate religion and politics with strangers.

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Yet President Obama still considered the group important enough to pay a house call to its annual House of Delegates meeting in Chicago, in recognition of the fact that while the AMA may not be able to dictate the terms of what type of health overhaul can pass Congress, it could still help gum up the process.

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The vase was discovered by Rodney Tennant, from the auction house, during a routine house call to value the contents.

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