It took me days to gather enough courage to leave the house and bring my questionnaire and old school tape recorder.

我花了好几天才鼓起勇气，带上调查表和老旧的学校录音机走出家门。

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These house some of the big investment banks, usually foreign-owned, which trade shares, bonds, currencies and derivatives on a scale that would have made an old-school City gent choke on his lunch.

这些建筑中有些是大的投行，通常是外资所有，他们交易股票、债券、货币和金融衍生物，而规模之大，能让一个传统都市绅士被他的午餐噎住。

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I had a group of old high-school friends over to the house last weekend.

上周末我们一帮高中老同学在我家里聚会了。

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She hid the dog under her coat on the school bus, and then, instead of going straight to school, she took Blitzee back to our old house in town, which was less than a block away.

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