In my books, people sit in front of their shikumen [stone gate] houses and talk.

在我的书里，人们坐在他们的石库门房子前聊天。

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Now he has put an ugly stone head over the gate.

现在他把一个丑陋的石雕头像放在了大门上边。

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Shikumen (literally"stone gate") is an architectural style that first appeared in late nineteenth century. Shikumen-style buildings are characteristic residential buildings of Shanghai.

19世纪后期上海出现的石库门，是最具上海特色的居民住宅。

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To get there, you have to pass a row of splendid shikumen (traditional stone-gate houses) , and the old-Shanghai textures continue once inside, with red-brick interior walls and reproduced stone gateways above doorways to rooms which are simple, but smart.

BBC: The sharpest rooms in Shanghai

Hitachi is working with Nippon Signal and the University of Yamanachi to build a new boarding gate that hopefully kills those two security birds with one stone.

ENGADGET: Hitachi boarding gate can sniff explosives on passes, keep the transport queues flowing (video)