In England this decline is often financially ruinous as well as traumatic: frail homeowners with no surviving spouse must pay eye-watering prices for care until their assets are all but exhausted.

在英国，这通常会导致财政上的损失和重创：丧偶的虚弱屋主必须支付高昂的护理费用，直到他们的资产耗尽。

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No, I'm watering the flowers.

不，我正在浇花。

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Meanwhile there's no reward for the gardening community which has followed the restrictions to the letter even getting up in the pitch dark at 6am on their allotted watering days.

同时，那些不折不扣地执行节水限令的种花的人们却得不到任何奖励，即使他们在浇花的日子里，早上6点天还漆黑就起来忙。

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They require no watering, no mowing and no chemicals.

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The abrupt postponement of the reform package left Mr Koizumi's government scrambling to limit the damage and the prime minister insisting to an increasingly sceptical audience that there would be no watering down of the central elements of Mr Takenaka's proposals.

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