For seniors, churches and senior centers offer more opportunities to socialize, participate in activities and simply get out of the house, Mills said.

米尔斯说，对老年人而言，教堂和老年人中心提供了更多机会来社交、参与活动，或者仅仅是走到室外。

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Moving house can cut people off from their friends, churches, schools and community groups.

搬家会切断人们与朋友，教会，学校及社区团体的联系。

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Tourists were not uncommon in the city but they usually kept to the old port with its rococo churches and stately customs house, or took the organized cruises along the reef.

游客在城里并不罕见，但他们通常局限在有洛可可式教堂和雄伟的海关大楼的旧港口，或者乘坐沿着礁石航行的游轮。

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This will be very important because Christians started out as house churches, and their house churches fit sometimes the model of a Greek ekklesia, an assembly, but sometimes the model of the Roman household.

说它重要是因为,基督教一开始时是家庭教会的形式，这种家庭教会有时符合希腊集会的模型，一种集会，但有时符合罗马家户的模型。

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Because most Protestant house churches are non-denominational (that is, not affiliated with Lutherans, Methodists and so on), they have no fixed liturgy or tradition.

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Included in that law, with quiet support from the White House, was an amendment by Republican Senator John Ashcroft that let churches and religious groups bid on government contracts to provide job training and other services.

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