Old houses are often damp.

老房子大多都潮湿。

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These old houses are going to be knocked down.

这些旧房子要拆了。

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Many large old houses have been converted into flats.

许多大的老房子已改建成单元房。

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And plenty of stately, English-style Victorian houses and grand old hotels,too.

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They build huge houses in the seventeenth century in Moscow with very old-fashioned traditional Russian architecture.

在17世纪,他们在莫斯科建造了巨大的房屋,用的是老式传统的俄国的建筑风格

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Instead of being flattened the old shop-houses were renovated and turned into bijou modern homes.

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There are 120-year-old houses in the area where he lives that have survived other bad storms.

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