A natural timber deck leads into the main room of the home.

一个天然木头平台通向家里的主室。

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The outdoor room can be turned into a comfortable extension of the main living area by closing a sliding fly screen, or fully incorporated into the interior using sliding doors on either side.

外部空间可以通过关闭滑动的飞屏，变成主要居住空间的延伸，或者使用另一边的滑动门完全包含融入内部空间。

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Then feet shuffled up the back-porch stairs and into the passageway leading to the main house, stopping in the hall just outside the dining room.

接着是后面走廊阶梯上嘈杂的脚步声，渐渐进入通向主楼的过道，直到餐厅外面的穿堂里才停止了。

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When a purported female spy appears in a chat room, sending the main character into a paranoid frenzy, Muhly might have toyed with a jazzy, cinematic style, but he falls into the same ruminative tempo as before.

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Eric Hughes, a cryptology expert with Simple Access, an electronic-commerce consulting firm, conducted his own experiment: at a technical conference, he issued a roll of pennies to every participant and explained that there was a one-cent charge, payable into a box beside the door, each time anyone entered the main room.

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Even after radiation levels in the Fukushima main control room had spiked to 1, 000 times normal levels, radioactive steam had been vented into the environment, and hydrogen explosions had demolished large parts of two reactor buildings, sending radioactive debris a thousand feet into the air, NISA only raised the threat assessment to level 5 the same as the far less catastrophic accident at Three Mile Island.

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