The fair boy stopped and jerked his stockings with an automatic gesture that made the jungle seem for a moment like the Home Counties.

金发少年停住脚，自自然然地紧紧袜子。他这动作一时间让人觉得这孩子好象是在老家一样。

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Monk parakeets, which have established colonies in the home counties, are to be culled because they are alleged to pose a danger to crops, the electricity grid and native species.

已经在伦敦各郡建立群居点的和尚鹦鹉因为被认为威胁作物、电网及本土物种将受到清除。

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They sold tastes of home like dried fish, herbs and tofu, but they also operated as social clubs, representing Chinese villages and counties, and provided mail and money-wiring services.

它们不仅出售家乡风味的鱼干、草药和豆腐，而且也起着社交俱乐部的作用，代表着中国的县城和乡村，还提供收发邮件和汇款的服务。

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The Home Counties - especially Essex - had been particularly badly hit, it said.

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Detectives also made arrests in houses and hotels in other parts of London and the Home Counties.

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His success rests on a personal brand that lies halfway between metropolitan liberal and Home Counties conservative.

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