There was a row of brick houses, blackened by smoke.

那里有一排砖房，全被烟熏黑了。

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It was a close-knit community of rectangular, one-story mud-brick houses, joined by narrow lanes and courtyards, finally abandoned about 5000 B.C.

它是一座结构紧凑的村庄，有着与狭窄小道和院子相连的矩形单层泥砖房屋，这座村庄最终于公元前5000年被废弃。

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It has brick houses, clean running water and even school buildings.

有砖房、干净的自来水、甚至还有校舍。

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There aren't very many people and the plastic roofs seem out of place under what used to be tidy, middle class brick houses.

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