For what I had entered was a room much larger than my living room in Beijing, with a standing lamp by an antique-like table on a beautiful green carpet.

因为我看到的房间比我在北京的客厅还要大。

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Looking through the mist, I could make out the figure of a woman standing under the street lamp.

透过薄雾，我能看到路灯下站着一个女人的身影。

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Clean the standing waste bin, indication lamp and flower frame. (if has) inside the elevator room.

清洁电梯内的立式垃圾桶、指示灯和花架(如有)。

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They were climbing lamp posts, sitting on barbed-wire fences, standing on the roofs of cars and buses and some not fussed about getting a baton around the kneecaps by the police.

BBC: Cricket World Cup: Andrew White column