Recently the police did a spot check on Madame Jolivet's apartment and recorded the actual habitable surface area as just 5 sq m - that's the size of about six or seven beach towels.

最近警察对朱莉维夫人的公寓进行了抽查，记录的实际居住面积仅为5平方米——也就是六、七条沙滩巾的面积。

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We also need to claim back the word "generous" : which too often gets used in the sense of over-large portions of food, hotel towels, the size of sheets, or women spilling out of their dresses.

我们也需要还“慷慨”这个同本来的面目，因为这个词在食品、宾馆毛巾、床单大小或胖得快要撑破衣裳的女人的绝大部分意思上用得太泛太滥了。

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Now one quirk of the non-western hotels is the miniscule size of the bath towels.

还有一件古怪的事，就是这些非西式的旅馆提供的毛巾都很迷你。

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