The house was approached by gravelled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars.

几条碎石车道蜿蜒穿过片片开阔草坪和遮天蔽日白杨树，通向这所宅子。

Once a fine-looking manor, and easily the largest and grandest building for miles around, the Riddle House was now damp, derelict, and unoccupied.

里德尔府原先是幢很漂亮大宅子，还是方圆几英里之内最宽敞、最气派建筑，如今却变得潮湿、荒凉，常年无人居住。

People say ghosts haunt that old house.

据说那座老宅子有鬼魂出没。

Oh, I like a bit of life in a house, but I...I just hope Mr Carson doesn't spontaneously combust.

宅子里有点生气是好事，不过...我就希望卡森先生别忙得。

Now we've got the pleasantries out of the way, please leave my house.

既然我们已经寒暄过，就请离开我宅子吧。

One night, we drove a horse and carriage past old Dorset's house.

天晚上太阳落山，我们赶着辆马车经过老多塞特宅子。

Buck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley.

巴克住在阳光明媚圣克拉拉山所大宅子里。

That night, we slept in one of the 12 rooms of that big old mansion.

那天晚上，我们睡在那间大老宅子12间房其中间。

This house is going to be my home, he says.

这宅子将是我家，他说。

But I suppose in a house like this, you expect to take it easy.

但我想，在这样大宅子里，你多几个帮手己也舒坦。

Meanwhile, in the village of Little Hangleton, a maid was running along the High Street, screaming that there were three bodies lying in the drawing room of the big house: Tom Riddle Senior and his mother and father.

与此同时，在小汉格顿村，个女仆在大街上尖叫着狂奔着，说大宅子客厅里有三具尸体：老汤姆·里德尔和他父母。

" But, my dear girl, it's an immense house, and will take a power of money to keep it in order. The garden and orchard alone need two or three men, and farming isn't in Bhaer's line, I take it."

“可是我好姑娘，那宅子很大，要花大量钱才能把它弄得井井有条。单是花园和果园就需要两三个人照顾，而我看巴尔对农活并不在行吧。”

Perhaps it was partly because of Frank that the new owners said there was a nasty feeling about the place, which, in the absence of inhabitants, started to fall into disrepair.

新主人说，也许部分是因为弗兰克缘故吧，他们总觉得这地方有种阴森吓人感觉。来由于无人居住，宅子渐渐失修，变得破败。

Winthrop, without beauty and without dignity, was stretched before them; an indifferent house, standing low, and hemmed in by the barns and buildings of a farm-yard.

温思罗普展现在他们面前，既不美丽，也不庄严——幢平平常常矮宅子，四周围着农场仓和建筑物。

It means a lot to Lady Mary and the family that we're married in the house and I can't see why we shouldn't be.

玛丽小姐和主人家都十分希望我们在宅子里结婚，我不明白这怎么就不行。

Do you think these great houses like Downton Abbey are going to go on just as they are for another 40 years?

你真觉得唐顿庄园这样宅子还能成不变地继续运作四十年吗？

So, we'll hit a few houses on the way to the North Side, which is where we'll do most of our trick-or-treating.

我们路向北穿过些宅子，基本沿途每家都说“不给糖果就捣乱”。

He had a beautiful old house in Queen Anne Street, and being a man of taste he had furnished it admirably.

他在安皇街有所老宅子，布置很优雅，因为他是个很富于艺术鉴赏力人。

They knew that old Frank's devotion to the house and the grounds amounted almost to an obsession, and it amused them to see him limping across the garden, brandishing his stick and yelling croakily at them.

他们知道老弗兰克心意地护理宅子和庭园，几乎到种痴迷程度，所以他们愿意看到他瘸拐地穿过园子，挥舞着拐杖，用沙哑嗓子朝他们嚷嚷，每当这时，他们就觉得特别开心。

She wants Marigold as her toy, to be poked and prodded by every stray guest from the big house!

她就想把玛丽戈德当做玩具，好让那大宅子里人都能随便又捏又逗。