Every large house is a real feudal fortress made, it is true, only of sun-baked clay, but with battlements, turrets, loopholes, drawbridges, etc.

诚然，每一幢大房子都是真正的封建堡垒，只不过是用日晒过的黏土建造的，但上面有城垛、炮塔、炮眼、吊桥等等。

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Can you imagine a house powered not by sun, wind or coal, but by living algae?

你能想象一座房子不是由太阳能、风能或者煤而是由活的藻类供应能量吗？

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The jaguar just sometimes went out of its house with its “girlfriend”and stayed in the sun for a while before it came back to its house again.

然而此举并未带来多大改观,那只老虎最多陪伴外来的“女友”走出虎房,到阳光下站一站,不久就又回到它的“卧室”。

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Sun said in-house tests showed the application server running on a 64-way Sun Enterprise 10000 to be capable of handlingover 1, 500 Web-to-database transactions per second, and more than 2, 600 page views per second, or 225 million page viewsper day.

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Over the winter, special triple-pane windows that capture 64% of the sun's warmth keep the house cozy even on 5-degree days so cozy that Mr. Konkol had lush indoor herbs, blooming orchids and a lemon tree.

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Mr. House says an east-west orientation is preferred because latitude works with the sun's motion, making it easy for an individual who wants morning sunlight in the breakfast room to position it on the west side of the home, with east-facing windows.

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