Hope of living behind a white picket fence was dashed with the mortgage crisis, but the dream is about much more than homeownership.

居住在白色篱栅环绕的别墅之中，乃是许多人的梦想，然而次贷危机使这个梦想成了镜花水月。

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She quarreled with Tom about which way to turn at a fork in the path; they clashed again when she spotted a No Trespassing sign on a fence post and wanted to see if there was a house beyond it.

还有一次她瞥到了一快“禁入”的牌子挂在篱柱上，于是想过去看看那边是否有人居住。 但汤姆不赞同，他们便又一次吵了起来。

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She was always fighting with his neighbors about the fence.

她和她的邻居总是为了栅栏的事争吵。

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If you have been sitting on the fence wondering about what do with your project or kit, now is the time to get off the fence and start selling.

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Mr. DICKSON: You look down at the border and now there's a fence about two miles long with lights every 50 yards, and so forth.

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Reagan was concerned about a fence, while the recent crop of would-be-Reagans spout nonsense about walls with moats topped by electrified fences.

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