It was like the bride of the house, in the seclusion of her midday siesta, resting on a many-coloured quilt of her own embroidering, murmuring low the secrets of her heart.

它就像屋子里的新娘，在她午睡的幽闭当中，躺卧在她自己绣成的花褥之上，喃喃地诉说她心中的秘密。

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Perhaps areas that aren't used or that house smaller numbers of people are contracted to a smaller size, sealed off (like the Chamber of Secrets) or made 'invisible'.

也许，放置不用的、或者容纳人数较少的地方会被缩小到较小的尺寸，或者封闭起来（就像密室一样），或者被变得“看不见”。

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I came to accept the secrets of our house as a normal part of my life.

我开始把家庭的秘密当成自己生活中正常的一部分。

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It felt like coming home to another house, a place full of secrets, a childhood still there, intact among the green shadows under the stairs.

NEWYORKER: The Cold Outside

Corporate attorneys used to be the faceless "keepers of the secrets, " says Susan Friedman, head of in-house counsel coverage at insurance broker Marsh.

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