Saima became the tycoon of the neighborhood, and she was able to pay off her husband's entire debt, keep her daughters in school, renovate the house, connect running water and buy a television.

萨马成了这片地区的富豪，她还清了丈夫的所有欠款，让两个女儿都上起了学，修葺了房子，修好了断裂的水管，买了一台电视机。

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A few months later, Khanh is working as a house painter and has found the energy to renovate the family's apartment.

几个月后，阮国卿成为了一名油漆工，把自己家中重新粉刷了一遍。

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The owner works in travel and tourism, he once rented the house and planned to renovate it into a cultural place.

户主在旅行社工作，他从一租用这个住宅就打算将它更新为一个文化场所。

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Imagine that you are trying to renovate a house near Moscow.

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He won an academic scholarship to the University of Florida, in Gainesville, where he joined the swim team and earned a degree in engineering, a subject that interested him only insofar as it illuminated the mechanics of, say, how to level a structural foundation or gut-renovate a house.

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The first phase in the project was to renovate the 1930s house, which was in a "horrendous" state, said Mr. Turner, having been lived in by an elderly invalid for several years.

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