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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A plastic cover around the house helps to keep the heat inside.

房子周围的塑料罩有助于保持住室内的热量。

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"It kind of implies that men still want to keep women in the house," said Wang Congcong, a 23-year-old assistant editor in Beijing.

“这在一定程度上意味着男人仍希望女人只待在家里，”23岁的北京助理编辑王聪聪(音译)说。

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Each team had to create a design that could keep the inside of the house at a temperature of between twenty-two and twenty-four degrees Celsius.

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Republicans like former House Speaker Newt Gingrich have vowed to keep the pressure on Mr.Obama on Afghanistan, as he did in a recent speech at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.

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"If we are able to work something out with the borrower, were they get to keep their house, and my client gets to have payments according to the mortgage, that's a win for everybody."

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Finding the parts you need to keep a house from falling apart, and then figuring out what to do with them once you get home, is a monumental task.

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"I am afraid my ability to keep a reasonable house, to meet friends, to have a normal life - that, I think, will be seriously curtailed or stopped altogether", she told me.

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Have you talked to him at all about how he feels about having this event in his backyard, in his house, as the family has tried to keep the Chicago house sort of a private place for them?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,