That old moan by W.C. Fields, the American funny man, echoes the more recent feelings of many a resident in Basra.

这是美国喜剧演员W.C. 费尔兹过去抱怨的话，现在却是大多数巴士拉居民最近的心声。

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It seems that if you are a city resident, you typically know a smaller proportion of your neighbors than you do if you are a resident of a smaller community.

似乎如果你是一个城市居民，你认识的邻居的比例通常比一个较小社区的居民认识的要小。

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Kolkata, a resident told me, "has difficulty letting go." One day a city official handed me a report from the municipal government laying out options for how rickshaw pullers might be rehabilitated.

加尔各答的一位居民告诉我：“很难放手。”一天，一位市政府官员给了我一份市政府的报告，上面列出了如何改造人力车夫的方案。

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Working as a resident assistant in student housing is one way to help finance an education.

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For 6 years,I was a resident tutor in Leverett House when I was a graduate student and then I also started to teach.

我做过6年莱弗里特宿舍的住校导师,我研究生在读时，就开始任教。

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But it's amazing that that's available to us as a resident.

不过我们作为居民可以去，这很好。

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' Dan Blumenthal, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, worked on last year's Pentagon report.

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It's also important to note that the Turkish man who was arrested, was a resident here.

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"We do like having a private beach, " said Shirley Combee, a resident of 50 years.

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