THE utility meter’s native habitat is the understairs cupboard, behind the ironing board and the Christmas decorations, covered in dust and playing host to a colony of spiders.

电表与生俱来的栖息地，就是像楼梯底下的橱柜这样的地方，或潜藏于烫衣板和圣诞装饰的背后，尘封已久，沦为蜘蛛的巢穴。

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It isn't something you buy now and then or pull down from the cupboard, dust off and use once or twice, and then return to the cupboard.

它不是你偶尔买来，从架子上拿下来，抹去灰尘用上一两次然后又放回到架子上的东西。

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Many of us will have a tube of tennis balls gathering dust in the bottom of a cupboard.

想必很多人都会有一管尘封于橱柜底的网球。

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If she's currently employed at another nearby hotel, check into the hotel where she now works for a night, run your fingers along the top of the picture frames checking for dust, open every drawer and cupboard in every piece of furniture in the room, and spend several minutes crawling around in the floor in your room looking under things.

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