It had been bought with cash, in order to insure anonymity.

手机是用现金购买的，这样可以保证匿名。

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When we bought it, it had been gutted and then abandoned for 15 years.

我们买下它的时候，内部一塌糊涂，已经十五年没有人住过。

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It has been twenty years since he came down to our village from London and bought a couple of old cottages, which he then had knocked into one.

20年前，他从伦敦来到我们的村子，买了好几座旧房屋，推倒后建了一所大房子。

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The interior has been so sympathetically redecorated it's hard to believe at first that Max bought the house after it had been stripped of its contents.

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