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Airbnb says hosts in San Francisco who rent out their homes do so for an average of 58 nights a year, making $ 9.3000.
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F) For sociable souls, meeting new people by staying in their homes is part of the charm
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Aside from the panels on the roof, Premier Gardens looks like a community of conventional homes.
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Solar homes produce the most power on the hot sunny afternoons when everyone rushes home to turn up the air conditioner
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Many people's homes now have more powerful, and more flexible, devices than their offices do; consumer gadgets and online services are smarter and easier to use than most companies'ystems
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Today, given the job losses of the past year, fewer unhappy couples will risk starting separate households, Furthermore, the housing market meltdown will make it more difficult for them to finance their separations by selling their homes.
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With some exceptions , the oldest homes tend to be the least energy-efficient.
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Partly as a consequence of this limited time, over half of all American homes now have microwave ovens
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Why are most wives unwilling to put their dependent husbands into nursing homes?
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Nursing homes are well-equipped and convenient
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A reasonable assumption—don't families struggle to avoid nursing homes and suffer real guilt if they can't?
2016年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
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About 75% of elderly parents who don't go to nursing homes live within 30 minutes of at least one of their children.
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Are nursing homes as bad as people fear, or is that an out-moded stereotype?
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As he traveled through the homes of early 19th century nobility, Careme forged the new art of French gourmet food.
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Days after the deadly 2017 wildfires in Santa Rosa, California, a drone (无人机) caught footage (连续镜头) of a USPS worker, Trevor Smith, driving through burned homes in that familiar white van, collecting mail in an affected area.
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In fact, the developer says, 99 percent of the homes here are sold to Koreans.
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Now, however, a New Zealand-based startup company aims to bring messy homes—and even splitting headaches—back to normal.
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people are increasingly using for peace of mind in their homes, but few stop to think about the effect these devices may have on house guests.
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Soon airline tickets, hotel reservations and even cars and homes could be purchased online.
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The cordless, hand-held tools we use in our homes, such as vacuum cleaners, flashlights, drills and saws came from the technology of these early space programs.
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The most recent of these studies, published in The Journal of Applied Gerontology, surveyed 150 Connecticut residents of assisted living, nursing homes and smaller residential care homes known in some states as board and care homes or adult care homes.
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After making inquiries Hughes discovered that they were being composed on computers, then just finding their way into British homes.
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The official unemployment rate is the product of a telephone survey of about 60000 homes.
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In addition, at that time a greater percentage of homes and electrical plants were run on petroleum than today
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People from broken homes and North American Indians are two examples.
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People from broken homes often lack stable lives
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Both bills would reduce the rate of growth in annual Medicare payments to hospitals, nursing homes and other providers by amounts comparable to the productivity savings routinely made in other industries with the help of new technologies and new ways to o
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Conversations about the benefits of fiber are probably more common in nursing homes than high schools.
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In 2001, for example, the Environmental Protection Agenc restricted the type and amount of lead that could be present in paint and soil to homes and child-care facilities after concerns were raised about lead poisoning.
2015年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
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In the mid-19th century, the US government adopted a policy of Americanising Indian children by removing them from their homes and culture.
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It has brought English into homes and pushed out traditional storytelling and family time together, accelerating the extinction of native languages.
2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
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It's time to wake up to the fact that making smart buildings, cities and homes will dramatically improve our quality of life in the years ahead.
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The aim was to enable older people to remain in their own homes for as long as possible, but this increased concern about the lack of coordination between free health and paid-for social car.
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The wireless age is expanding to include not just our phones, tablets, and laptops, but also our cars, homes, and even whole communities.
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This required local governments to provide residential accommodation for older people and supervise care homes run by independent organizations.
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visits to nursing homes and schools are also a regular part of the horses' schedule.
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N-COUNT
家;住宅;住所
Someone's home is the house or flat where they live.
例句
Last night they stayed at home and watched TV...
昨晚他们呆在了家里看电视。
...his home in Hampstead.
他位于汉普斯特德的住所
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N-UNCOUNT
(强调归属感的)家,家乡,祖国
You can use home to refer in a general way to the house, town, or country where someone lives now or where they were born, often to emphasize that they feel they belong in that place.
例句
She gives frequent performances of her work, both at home and abroad...
她经常在国内外演出自己的作品。
His father worked away from home for much of Jim's first five years...
父亲在吉姆5岁前的大部分时间里都在外地工作。
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ADV
向家;在家
Home means to or at the place where you live.
例句
His wife wasn't feeling too well and she wanted to go home...
他的妻子感到有些不舒服,想要回家。
I'll telephone you as soon as I get home...
我一到家就给你打电话。
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ADJ
在家里做(或进行)的
Home means made or done in the place where you live.
例句
...cheap but healthy home cooking...
便宜而健康的家常菜
All you have to do is make a home video.
你要做的就是拍一段家庭录像片。
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ADJ
本国的;国内的
Home means relating to your own country as opposed to foreign countries.
例句
Europe's software companies still have a growing home market.
欧洲软件公司的国内市场仍在增长中。
...the Guardian's home news pages.
《卫报》的国内新闻版
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养老院;疗养院;养育院
A home is a large house or institution where a number of people live and are looked after, instead of living in their own houses or flats. They usually live there because they are too old or ill to look after themselves or for their families to care for them.
例句
It's going to be a home for handicapped children.
这将是一家残疾儿童福利院。
...an old people's home.
养老院
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家庭
You can refer to a family unit as a home .
例句
She had, at any rate, provided a peaceful and loving home for Harriet...
她至少为哈丽雅特提供了一个安宁关爱的家。
Single-parent homes are commonplace.
单亲家庭很普遍。
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N-SING
发源地;发祥地;产地;生息地
If you refer to the home of something, you mean the place where it began or where it is most typically found.
例句
This south-west region of France is the home of claret.
法国西南部的这个地区是干红葡萄酒的产地。
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适于存放…的地方
If you find a home for something, you find a place where it can be kept.
例句
The equipment itself is getting smaller, neater and easier to find a home for.
该设备本身正变得越来越小,越来越轻巧,也越来越便于存放。
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ADV
击中要害地;彻底地;深切地;切实地
If you press, drive, or hammer something home, you explain it to people as forcefully as possible.
例句
It is now up to all of us to debate this issue and press home the argument.
现在要靠我们大家对此问题进行辩论,并尽可能将论点阐述清楚。
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(比赛的)主场
When a sports team plays at home, they play a game on their own ground, rather than on the opposing team's ground.
例句
I scored in both games against Barcelona; we drew at home and beat them away.
我在两场对阵巴塞罗那队的比赛中都进了球;我们在主场战平,在客场赢了他们。
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PHRASE
像在家一样舒适自在;无拘束
If you feel at home, you feel comfortable in the place or situation that you are in.
例句
He spoke very good English and appeared pleased to see us, and we soon felt quite at home...
他英语说得非常好,见到我们显得很高兴,我们很快就不拘束了。
I am not completely at home in any Protestant Church.
我在任何一个新教教会都不是特别自在。
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PHRASE
使清楚地领会;使深切地感到
To bring something home to someone means to make them understand how important or serious it is.
例句
Their sobering conversation brought home to everyone present the serious and worthwhile work the Red Cross does.
他们发人深省的对话使在座的每个人都清楚地认识到红十字会所从事的严肃而有价值的工作。
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PHRASE
大功告成;稳操胜券
If you say that someone is, in British English home and dry, or in American English home free, you mean that they have been successful or that they are certain to be successful.
例句
The prime minister and the moderates are not yet home and dry.
首相和温和派还未大功告成。
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PHRASE
切中要害;使人接受(或认清)事实
If a situation or what someone says hits home or strikes home, people accept that it is real or true, even though it may be painful for them to realize.
例句
Did the reality of war finally hit home?...
人们终于认清战争的现实了吗?
Israeli officials say that message struck home.
以色列官员说这一信息切中了要害。
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PHRASE
像家里一样舒适的地方
You can say a home from home in British English or a home away from home in American English to refer to a place in which you are as comfortable as in your own home.
例句
Many cottages are a home from home, offering microwaves, dishwashers, tvs and videos.
很多度假屋都像自家一样,里面有微波炉、洗碗机、电视机和录像机。
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CONVENTION
请别拘束;请随便
If you say to a guest 'Make yourself at home', you are making them feel welcome and inviting them to behave in an informal, relaxed way.
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PHRASE
平平常常;没有什么特别有趣的地方
If you say that something is nothing to write home about, you mean that it is not very interesting or exciting.
例句
So a dreary Monday afternoon in Walthamstow is nothing to write home about, right?
这么说,在沃尔瑟姆斯托度过的一个沉闷的周一下午没什么值得大书特书的,是吗?
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PHRASE
击中目标
If something that is thrown or fired strikes home, it reaches its target.
例句
Only two torpedoes struck home.
只有两枚鱼雷击中了目标。