1. These days, advertisers not only offer free samples, but free cars, free houses, and free trips round the world as well.
    目前，做广告的人不仅提供免费样品，而且还提供免费汽车，免费住房，免费周游世界。

2. The place consisted of a straggling unmade road which was lined on either side by small houses.
    这儿有一条未经修筑的弯弯曲曲的道路，路两边排列着一些矮小的农舍。

3. The feeling of private space and ownership no longer exists in houses literally piled one on the other.
    住在层层相叠的房子里再也没有那种私人空间和拥有的感觉了。

4. Those who like Victorian family houses and furniture might secretly welcome a return to more rigid social norms.
    那些喜欢维多利亚式家庭住宅和家具的人也许在心底里愿意恢复更为严格的社会规范。

5. To understand the state of business, they may look at the number of building permits for new houses.
    为了了解该行业的状况，他们可能会调查新房建造许可证的发放数量。

6. Today people from the neighborhood, which is made up mostly of expensive one-family homes with the exception of the two apartment houses near the railroad station, find it difficult to explain why they didn't call the police.
    该住宅区的居民多住在豪华的独门独户别墅，只有火车站附近有两幢公寓楼。他们都感到很难解释自己当初为何没有报警。

7. New houses, larger schools, more sheep, more pigs and chickens, more cows and horses -- everywhere we saw signs of prosperity.
    新房子盖起来了，学校扩大了，猪、羊、鸡、牛、马都比原来多了——到处是一片繁荣的景象。

8. Houses and trees seem to recede as we ride past in a train.
    当我们乘火车经过时，房屋和树木似乎向后退。

9. Houses----often three storeys high----were built of stone.
    房子一般有3层楼高，用石块修建。

10. Men in shirt sleeves stood outside their houses and glared at us.
    只穿着衬衣的男人们站在屋子外面凶狠地盯着我们，