Like the old song says, there's no place like home, not because of the real estate, but because of the sense of shelter and nurture that it provides.

就像古老的歌中所唱，没有地方会像家一样，不是因为它实际的地产价值，而是因为它所提供的庇护和养育的感觉。

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“There once was an ugly duckling,” goes the old song.

老歌里唱到：“曾经是一只丑小鸭”。

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The old song was about a fair maiden and her suitors.

这个旧歌唱的是一个漂亮的未婚女人和她的求婚者的事。

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In the old song, Casey Jones is a hero.

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Here it is; it's in your anthology as well: I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eye As though they'd wrought it.

你们选集里有这首：,我为我的歌儿缝就,一件长长的外套,上面缀满剪自古老,神话的花边刺绣；,但蠢人们把它抢去，穿上在人前炫示,俨然出自他们之手。

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That could include people like the Lomaxes who copyrighted a new arrangement of an old folk song.

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I'm afraid it is - alone together, as the old song went.

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Did they get it right this time or is this just more of the same old song and dance?

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One of these 2013 finalists is not like the others, as the old Sesame Street song goes.

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