客厅

While I was cooking in the kitchen , he was watching TV in the living room

当我在厨房做饭的时候，他在客厅看电视。

And a living room with a twelve-foot ceiling.

有一间十二高的的客厅

And a living room with a twelve-foot ceiling and a two-car garage.

有一间十二英尺高的客厅和可放两辆车的车库。

On the stairs were a troop of little boys and girls, whose eagerness for their cousin';s appearance would not allow them to wait in the drawing-room, and whose shyness, as they had not seen her for a twelvemonth, prevented their coming lower.

觉得很高兴。男男女女的孩子们为了急于要见到表奶，在客厅里等不及，又因为一年没见面，不好意思下楼去，便都待在楼梯口。到处是一片欢乐与和善的气氛。

On the stairs were a troop of little boys and girls, whose eagerness for their cousin's appearance would not allow them to wait in the drawing-room, and whose shyness, as they had not seen her for a twelvemonth, prevented their coming lower.

男男女女的孩子们为了急于要见到表奶，在客厅里等不及，又因为一年没见面，不好意思下楼去，便都待在楼梯口。

He then demonstrated by spinning rapidly and then doing a dramatic tumblesault on the living room carpet, finished with an "umph" for emphasis.

然后他示范迅速转动，和跟住做一个戏剧性的翻觔斗在客厅的地毯上，以一重"哼"声完结，完后他要求吃早餐。

Dragged unceremoniously to the drawing room, he confessed that he had forgotten all about the appointment.

当他不由分说地被拽到客厅里来时，他道歉地说他完全把这个约会忘了。

My master kept his room; i took possession of the lonely parlour, converting it into a nursery: and there i was, sitting with the moaning doll of a child laid on my knee; rocking it to and fro, and watching, meanwhile, the still driving flakes build up the uncurtained window, when the door opened, and some person entered, out of breath and laughing!

我的主人待在他屋子里不出来；我就占据了这个寂寞的客厅，把它改换成一间育儿室：我就在那儿坐着，把个哇哇哭的娃儿搁在我膝盖上，摇来摇去，同时瞅着那仍然刮着的雪片在那没下窗帘的窗户外面堆积着，这时门开了，有人进来，又喘又笑！

On the supposition that she would go down to see him, Princess Marya imagined the words he would say to her, and she would say to him; and at one moment, those words seemed to her undeservedly frigid, at the next, they struck her as carrying too much meaning.

在假定她会走到客厅去见他时，她设想着他会对她说的话和她要告诉他的话；时而她觉得这些话冷淡得不适当，时而又觉得这些话含有过分重大的意义。

He will crash ungracefully into the bean bags, exclaim that they are the only thing he wants in the living room and refuse to move until you agree.

他会不得体的扑倒在豆袋椅上，宣称这是客厅中他唯一需要的，并且知道你同意为止拒绝离开。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。