In my books, people sit in front of their shikumen [stone gate] houses and talk.

在我的书里，人们坐在他们的石库门房子前聊天。

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Shikumen (literally"stone gate") is an architectural style that first appeared in late nineteenth century. Shikumen-style buildings are characteristic residential buildings of Shanghai.

19世纪后期上海出现的石库门，是最具上海特色的居民住宅。

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The day started like a dream when we made the turn into the mountain and there next to the stone gate was the most beautiful pink-white mountain laurel in full bloom.

这天就像梦一般地揭幕了，我们转个弯进入那座山，在山上的石门旁有一棵极其美丽的山月桂，绽满了红白相间的鲜花。

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To get there, you have to pass a row of splendid shikumen (traditional stone-gate houses) , and the old-Shanghai textures continue once inside, with red-brick interior walls and reproduced stone gateways above doorways to rooms which are simple, but smart.

BBC: The sharpest rooms in Shanghai

Hitachi is working with Nippon Signal and the University of Yamanachi to build a new boarding gate that hopefully kills those two security birds with one stone.

ENGADGET: Hitachi boarding gate can sniff explosives on passes, keep the transport queues flowing (video)