He walks around the village aimlessly, asking about it, and has taken to drinking with his friends.

他毫无目的地围着村子转，打听这个缝纫机，后来就整天和朋友喝起酒来了。

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With architect friends and a team of collective-farmers-turned-installation-artists, Mr. Polissky has been making large-scale sculptures from natural materials in and around the village since 2000.

波利斯基先生有一群搞建筑的朋友，还有一个由以前的集体农庄村民组成的安装艺术家团队，从2000年起，他们就开始利用那里的天然材料来制作大型雕塑了。

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I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, and take a siesta with my wife. In the evenings, I go into the village to see my friends, have a few drinks, play the guitar, and sing a few songs.

我啊，睡睡懒觉，钓钓鱼，和我的孩子们玩，跟我的老婆一起睡个午觉什么的，到了晚上，我回到村子里去会会我的一些朋友，喝喝小酒，弹弹吉他，唱唱小曲。

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Nathan Taylor, 18, had been at the Bridge Bar in Latchford village with family and friends on Saturday night.

BBC: Nathan Taylor

So, of course, the inhabitants of that village will flee to a neighbouring village to stay with their friends, or to the town if they have relatives there, or to a collection centre organised by the authorities.

BBC: Milosevic defence transcript

At dinner with friends in a Greenwich Village restaurant, two playwrights, one tragic (Larry Pine), one comic (Wallace Shawn), offer alternate versions of the same story: Melinda (Radha Mitchell), a distraught young woman, shows up, unannounced, at a dinner party held by old friends and intrudes upon their lives.

NEWYORKER: Melinda and Melinda