It was pretty amazing: while others paid us to live in our house, we stayed rent-free in someone else's home 10 miles up the road.

这相当令人惊异：别人住在我们的房子里给我们付钱，而我们在沿着这条路10英里远的地方免费住着其他人的房子。

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barked the yard-dog, I'll tell you, they said I was a pretty little fellow once, then I used to lie in a velvet-covered chair, up at the master's house, and sit in the mistress's lap.

狗儿叫了叫，说：我跟你讲啊，以前他们都叫我小可爱，让我睡在主人卧室里的天鹅绒座垫上，坐在女主人的膝头上。

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"I think the landscape is really pretty and we usually are able to get our pumpkins right off the vine. We'll carve them up and put them on our front porch to decorate our house, " said Cosgrove.

她说：“这里风景真好，通常可以从藤上直接摘下南瓜，回家以后刻出个样子来，放在家门前，点缀一下。”

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Instead he has laboured in the shadows in the White House, hugely influential, as a president who picked up a Nobel Peace Prize on pretty much his first day in office has expanded the programme of drone-killing with an aggression that has surprised friends and enemies alike.

BBC: Drones at the forefront of the Brennan hearing