She learned to wire and plumb the house herself.

她学会了自己给房子排线和铺设水管。

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Try substituting a length of 14 gauge copper wire (common house wire) for the penny.

可以尝试使用14号铜线（家里最常见的那种）来提到硬币。

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If you look past the razor wire decorating every gate and fence around every house or apartment, the better parts of Johannesburg might remind you of Santa Monica, Calif.

如果将家家户户门上和篱笆上的刀片刺网忽略不计，约翰内斯堡的部分高档街区或许能让你想起加州的圣塔莫尼卡。

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Basically, the idea is to build components for a doll house that include the wires: you can, literally, wire the doll house up for electronics.

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It should work the same whether you plug that wire into your house, your neighbor's house, or all around the world...

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For Andrew Blum, a writer for Wired, that illusion was shattered on the day a squirrel chewed through the wire connecting his house to the internet.

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