"We used house equity as an ATM," Sherrill tells us.

“我们把房子当提款机用，”谢里尔告诉我们。

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He pointed to the spot where the house used to stand.

他指出那所房子原来所在的地方。

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My house used to be crowded with visitors, but now visitors are few and far between.

从前，我家总是门庭若市，现在却是门可罗雀了。

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The Victorians used one color for edging, another for the outside walls, another for decorative pieces connected to the house.

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It used to be that people would hide money in their house and it would frequently get stolen and it didn't earn any interest.

过去人们往往是将钱藏在家里,经常被盗不说,还没有任何利息收入

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you just like, continue living in your house and like, doing the life you used to do in high school.

你会呆在屋子里，过着像高中一样的生活。

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At present this is being used to house equipment used to make concrete foam to stabilise the nearby Coombe Down mines.

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"The warehouses that used to house Jaffa oranges have been converted into galleries and hip restaurants, " Baum said.

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We drove past the low-slung building that used to house the surfboard factory where Lopez lived with Springsteen.

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