为了送他们的儿子上大学他们申请了以房屋为抵押资产的贷款。 They applied for a home equity loan to send their son to college.
哥伦布美国密西西比州东北部城市，位于阿拉巴马州边界，这个地区有许多南北战争以前的房屋。人口23，799 A city of northeast Mississippi near the Alabama border. There are many antebellum houses in the area. Population,23, 799.
因为他是智谋，而不是用巫术，所以，虽然他出身于最破旧的雪屋，却登上了首领的位子，在以后的岁月里，他的臣民过着幸福的生活，没有人因为饥饿而在夜里暗暗哭泣。 Because he used head craft instead of withcraft, he rose from the poorest igloo to be the chief in the village. And for all the years that followed his people w ere happy. No one cried at night with pains of hunger.
一种亚洲风格的庙；通常是一种锥形塔，屋顶是弯弯曲曲的。 an Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof.
里面放有烘干蛇麻子的炉子；此屋子通常有一个圆锥形或金字塔形屋顶。 a building containing an oast (a kiln for drying hops); usually has a conical or pyramidal roof.
可以很清楚分辨出那三座被查理五世合并为这座行宫的大厦，尽管它们由几道带有彩色玻璃窗和小圆柱的长廊与行宫主体建筑巧妙地紧紧连结在一起。这三座大厦是小缪斯府邸、圣莫尔神父府邸和埃唐普伯爵府邸。小缪斯府邸，屋顶边缘装饰着花边形栏杆，神采优雅； One could there distinguish, very well, though cleverly united with the principal building by long galleries, decked with painted glass and slender columns, the three Hotels which Charles V. had amalgamated with his palace: the Hotel du Petit-Muce, with the airy balustrade, which formed a graceful border to its roof;
有着古雅的旧式屋顶的房子；支撑着古雅的烟囱的拱状屋顶。 houses with quaint thatched roofs; a vaulted roof supporting quaint chimney pots.
待我们吃完糖果或水果，她总要将我们送到屋前的门廊，叮嘱我们要多谢母亲给她送食品，要我们对父母亲转达一些稀奇古怪的老式祝愿，然后就转身回到屋里，随手关上门，使那里再次成为神秘世界。 When we had finished our sweetmeats or fruit she would accompany us to the stoep, bidding us thank our mother for her gift and sending quaint, old-fashioned messages to her and the Father. Then she would turn and enter the house, closing the door behind, so that it became once more a place of mystery.
我非常惊奇地看见这孩子如何冷静地挣扎起来，继续做他要做的事:换马鞍子等等，然后在他进屋以前先坐在一堆稻草上来压制住这重重的一拳所引起的恶心。 I was surprised to witness how coolly the child gathered himself up, and went on with his intention; exchanging saddles and all, and then sitting down on a bundle of hay to overcome the qualm which the violent blow occasioned, before he entered the house.
沿河街道上有五、六座这样的大厦，诸如与贝尔纳丹修道院共用小塔旁边大院墙的洛林公馆，再如纳勒公馆，其主塔正好是巴黎的标界，那黑色三角形的尖形屋顶一年当中有三个月把殷红的夕阳遮住了一角。 There were five or six of these mansions on the quay, from the house of Lorraine, which shared with the Bernardins the grand enclosure adjoining the Tournelle, to the Hotel de Nesle,whose principal tower ended Paris, and whose pointed roofs were in a position, during three months of the year, to encroach, with their black triangles, upon the scarlet disk of the setting sun.
她像着了魔似的在屋子里毫无目的地转来转去，把东西拾起来，又把东西放下去，疑神疑鬼地环顾四周。 As one enchanted she wandered aimlessly through the house, picking things up, laying them down again, gazing vacantly about her.
当时是冬天，凯特－布莱维特等人进屋后就掀掉病童的棉被，解开病童的衣服。 It was winter and after Blewett and company entered the room, they removed the sick child's warm cotton-batting quilt and unbuttoned the latter's clothes.
他给我一张修缮屋顶的报价单。 He gave me a quotation for mending the roof.
我们还可以举出云集在这间屋里的很多人的姓氏起首字母，他们在这里相遇连他们自己也感到非常惊讶，不过为了不使读者感到厌烦，恕我不再一一介绍。 We could go on quoting the initials of many of those who had gathered in that drawing room and who were not a little astonished at the company they kept; but we should, we fear, weary the reader.
看那些疯狂的轻车短程赛车手们；他们在我屋前留下了车胎的痕迹。 Look at those crazy drag racers; they laid rubber in front of my house.
煤、炭和木材混合在一起燃起的熊熊炉火，使这屋子放着光彩。 It glowed delightfully in the radiance of an immense fire, compounded of coal, peat, and wood;
虽然父亲把暖气设施搬走后屋子里衣服冻得硬邦邦的，他们的居室仍然透着暖意。 Though clothes were frozen crunchy after her father took out the radiators, their house was a source of warmth.
房屋内宜人的温暖 An agreeable warmth in the house.
一间屋子，放满了椅子、灯、收音机等等的 A room full of chairs, lamps, radios, and what have you.
橼木构成或加固屋顶用的桁架或橼木 The main truss or rafter that supports and gives form to a roof.
请把手电筒向上照屋椽。 Shine the torch up into the rafters, please.
我决心在第三次敢于再来到这屋里时可要小心谨慎。 and I resolved to be cautious how I ventured under those rafters a third time.
沿着屋脊的横梁；为椽的上顶提供辅助。 a beam laid along the ridge of a roof; provides attachment for upper end of rafters.
横木木结构建筑物中覆盖外墙壁骨的水平构件，屋横椽被支撑在它的上面 In wood-frame construction, a horizontal member, capping the exterior wall studs, upon which the roof rafters rest.
例如梁、托梁和椽等房屋的结构性部件；不是装饰性的成分；结构性损坏。 the structural details of a house such as beams and joists and rafters; not ornamental elements; structural damage.
旦当了兵，你怎么来安置我呢？我——一个无依无靠的孤儿，没有财产，只有一间快塌了的小屋和一些破烂的渔网，这点可怜的遗产还是我父亲传给我母亲，我母亲又传给我的呢。 Once a soldier, what would you do with me, a poor orphan, forlorn, without fortune, with nothing but a half-ruined hut and a few ragged nets, the miserable inheritance left by my father to my mother, and by my mother to me?
不久他们来到一间安上软垫的小屋前，听见里面传出野兽般的怒吼。 Presently they came to a padded cell, in which could be heard a raging as of a wild beast.
低矮挡墙一种沿着如屋顶或阳台而建的低矮的护墙或栏杆 A low protective wall or railing along the edge of a raised structure such as a roof or balcony.
突然来临的暴风雨把屋顶刮塌了。 The unexpected rainstorm caused the collapse of the roof.
雨水可以通过些管道从屋顶上流走。 The rainwater can run off the roof through these pipes.
水落管从屋顶水槽接下的竖直导水管 A vertical pipe for carrying rainwater down from a roof gutter.