"Almost all of their homes were badly damaged, but luckily no one was seriously injured," he said, speaking by phone from a town about 25 miles from the county seat.

在距离该村25英里的一个乡镇上，他用电话告诉我们说，“几乎所有的房子都遭受了严重的损坏，但是幸运的是没有人严重受伤。”

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The following year, a reported 17% of all homes in Japan were doing their cooking by microwaves, compared with 4% of the homes in the United States the same year.

接下来一年，有报道称日本已有17%的家庭使用微波烹饪，而美国也有4%的家庭使用微波烹饪。

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Around 2.5m homes are in the process of repossession, and 11m (or nearly 25% of all homes with mortgages) are "underwater" : borrowers owe more on their mortgage than their houses are worth.

大约250万房屋处在收房过程中，1100万(接近所有抵押贷款房屋的25%)房屋价值是“缩水”的：借款者欠款金额大于房屋的实际价值。

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Bevis says the winter lodge is no more. Children are spread out in their own homes facing all kinds of challenges.

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All of their homes and boats were destroyed in the storm.

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As part of the Transforming Your Care policy, 50% of NHS residential care homes in Northern Ireland were due to close within five years, but last week the northern, southern and western health trusts announced plans to close all of their residential homes.

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Councils and housing associations will be able to help struggling homeowners by buying all or part of their homes and leasing them back.

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