To make money, owners of stately homes often make their parks into playgrounds.

为了挣钱，豪宅主人常常把自己的庄园改造成游艺场。

These are published plans and architectural drawings of the finest stately homes in Britain.

这些是英国顶级豪宅的公开建筑规划和图纸。

Here, amid the Victorian cottages and stately plantation homes, you'll find Lafayette Cemetery.

置身维多利亚式别墅和富丽堂皇的庄园当中，您还会找到拉法叶公墓 (Lafayette Cemetery)。

Commercial galleries used to rely on regular visits from rich Britons seeking to furnish their stately homes.

商业画廊过去一向依靠那些英国富人的定期造，寻求艺术品来装饰富丽堂皇的家。

And we've got big stately homes to boot, of course.

当然，我还准备了宏伟的庄园您参观。

Many of the streets are lined with stately homes.

许多街道两旁都排列着庄严的住宅。

A huge stately home with a fleet of servants polishing the silver and mopping the floors.

一座巨大的庄园，一群仆人亮银器和打扫地板。

No self-respecting gentleman would plan his stately home without one, but they were expensive to build and labour-intensive to run.

没有一位自尊自重的绅士会不为其宏伟宅邸规划一个(维多利亚式)食品储藏室，然而， 这些储藏室的建造费用高昂， 且运营起来需要大量人力。

These lovely stately homes and gardens and things and then you have the coffee shop cards for those places as well.

这些漂亮的庄园和花园，然后你还会有那些地方的咖啡店会员卡。

Acting troupes, or acting companies, were groups of men who were professional actors and would move around performing in stately and royal homes until permanent theaters were constructed.

表演部队或表演公司是由专业演员组成的团体，会庄严的皇室住宅中四处表演，直到永久剧院建成。

A stately home owner who allowed a pop concert to be staged in his grounds was fined yesterday for letting a rock band play overtime.

一位庄严的房主允许的场地上演一场流行音乐会，昨天因让摇滚乐队加班演出而被罚款。

Now, where the lives of servants gets a little more interesting and a little more uniquely British is in the great stately homes of British aristocrats.

现，仆人的生活变得有趣且更具英式特色的地方是那些英国贵族的大庄园里。

Some of the aristocratic families of Britain still have a lot of money, and some still live in magnificent ' stately homes ' built by their families hundreds of years ago.

英国的一些贵族家庭仍然拥有巨额财富，住其家族几百年前建造的富丽堂皇的豪宅里。

The words gave him an electric shock, for few were the rebellious spirits who would have dared to call the stately home of the van der Luydens gloomy.

这话让触电，因为很少有叛逆的灵魂敢说范德卢登斯的豪宅阴暗。

As well as owning stately homes and houses associated with famous people, the National Trust has gradually extended its collection of art, and it also owns valuable books, clothing, furniture, ceramics, and all kinds of unusual objects.

除了拥有庄严的宅邸和与名人相关的房屋外，国家信托基金会还逐步扩展了其艺术收藏，并拥有珍贵的书籍、服饰、家具、陶瓷以及各种独特的物品。