They would like to buy a flat - at the moment they rent - but a housing bubble in Shanghai is making that difficult.

他们想买个单元房，但是上海的房地产泡沫让他们望洋兴叹，到时候他们就租个单元房住。

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B: Mr. Chen, we have seen many apartments, and finally agreed to rent the Robinson Garden flat.

陈先生，我们已经看过很多公寓了，最后我们同意租鲁宾逊花园的房子。

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Stuck in an ocean of honking traffic in the city centre, Babu Lal complains about the exorbitant rent on his two-room flat, hard to afford on his earnings as a driver.

Babu Lal在市中心喧嚣车流中遇堵，嘴里还在抱怨他那二居室高得离谱的房租，这是他作司机挣钱所难以承受的。

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But they can't afford to pay for any more after that, so they are planning to leave their home of 27 years and rent a flat in Newcastle because in England they can get the drug for free.

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He is alleged subsequently to have provided her with a rent-free flat and perhaps cash, too.

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The council said it was temporarily paying part of the rent on the flat through its homeless fund ahead of a meeting with Mr Neary next week.

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