Last night, after what seemed hours of damp turmoil, I got up and crept slipperless down the stairs, feeling my way in the faint street light that came through the window.

昨晚，在经历了几个小时的混乱之后，我起床了，没穿拖鞋，蹑手蹑脚地走下楼梯，借着从窗户透进来的微弱街灯摸索着前进。

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At the bottom of the stairs my hand met an electric switch. I turned it, and a great electrolier of twelve red globes flooded the cellar with a red light.

到了最下边一级台阶，我的手碰到一个电源开关，我打开它，一座安了十个红灯泡的大型吊灯架让地下室里一片红色。

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I take the stairs and find another switch on the landing, which turns on a slightly brighter but still inadequate light.

我上了楼梯，到另一侧找到了开关，开了灯，灯泡微微的发着光芒。

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"He got no stairs." " I can see a little light burning in the window."

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At the top of the stairs, he tried the dead light switch again, then closed the iron door behind him and walked out into the empty street.

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We ascend the narrow wooden stairs (he has plans to widen the staircase, rip out the charmless elevator and flood the place with light) and arrive at the living quarters, decorated almost exclusively with the furniture that Owens has been designing since 2006.

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