To keep your house mouseproof , check all small openings with a ballpoint pen. If it fits the hole, it will let mice in.

要使你的房子里没有小老鼠，用圆珠笔来检查下所有的小洞。如果圆珠笔能放进去的话，那小老鼠就可能钻进去。

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You can walk through and check every room of your house and see if you need to make any changes in the decorations or furniture placement.

你可以到房子里的每间房间里都去走走和检查一下，看看你是否需要在装饰或家俱的安置方面作些变动。

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Housesitting / petsitting — Stopping in to check on a house or pet can earn you some money, and maybe even a place to stay.

看家／宠物保姆——照看一所房子或照看一只宠物就能挣钱，说不定还有免费的地方让你住。

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Building costs (like rents) are high in Manhattan, but Blair is trying to keep expenses in check by using in-house construction crews and paying subcontractors bonuses to deliver work at the lowest possible cost.

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As the banks who sold on these mortgages were not putting up their own money as collateral, they no longer used their own in-house bank managers to assess the income of their borrowers and check the real value of the house they were giving a mortgage on.

BBC: Carnage on Wall Street as loans go bad