A pumpkin on the doorstep also works, and while it may attract vandals, it’s actually just distracting them from vandalising your bins.

放在门阶上的一个南瓜也有同样的作用。它可能会招来破坏者，但实际上它正好保护了你家的垃圾箱。

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Cheap labour on the doorstep has also helped to hold down costs at home.

家门口的廉价劳动力也有效控制了国内的劳动力成本。

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The solution was to accept cash, or more recently credit cards, at the doorstep .

解决办法就是接受现金支付，或者直到最近上门刷信用卡。

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With barely a drop on its own doorstep , the city secured supplies from lakes to the north and the Colorado River to the east.

尽管自身没有一滴水，该市还是利用其北部的湖泊和东部的科罗拉多河确保了水源供应。

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All the man-made comforts of a modern city, but with nature on the doorstep .

开普敦有着现代城市生活的舒适，但还保留自然的风光。

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Annoyingly, Tesla opened a dealership in Munich on BMW’s doorstep .

令人感到心烦的还有，特斯拉竟然在宝马的家门口慕尼黑开了一家代理店。

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For her trouble, she was called a "race traitor" and a "whore" ; feces were dumped on her parents’ doorstep .

麻烦的是，她被称为“民族叛徒”、“娼妓”，在她父母家门口的台阶上满是粪便。

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Mr Ma said Taiwan was on China’s doorstep , making economic interdependence "an objective reality that we cannot change" .

马英九表示，台湾就在中国大陆的门口，这使经济上的相互依靠成为“我们无法改变的一个客观现实”。

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A Halloween jack-o’-lantern on the doorstep .

门阶上摆着万圣节前夜的南瓜灯。

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On my doorstep were two elderly women who handed me a red leaflet outlining the significance of participating in the election.

门口站着两位上岁数的妇女。他们递给我一张红色小册子，上书参加选举的重要意义。

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And then whatever you design virtually you click the button and it shows up at your doorstep a week later.

你可以假装搭一个积木，点击采购所有的零件，一周后就送货上门了。

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You may have forgotten how your first idea arrived, how it showed up on your doorstep in ratty bluejeans and a ketchup stained t-shirt.

你也许已经忘记最初的想法怎样出现的了，忘记它怎样身着破烂的蓝牛仔裤和染上番茄酱的T恤衫出现在你家门口的。

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You know that woman who stands on her doorstep (or in line at the supermarket, or at the park, or in a restaurant) cursing at her children?

你知不知道当一个女人站在家门口（或是在超市排队时，或是在公园，或是在饭店里）咒骂她的孩子们的样子？

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You place your orders online, and the milkman brings it your doorstep , fresh from a local family-owned farm not far from where I live.

你只要上网下订单，送奶工就会送货上门，这些食品均产自我们居住地区的一个家庭农场，保证新鲜。

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Not to lay all this at the doorstep of a rather trifling video game, you understand.

请你理解，我也不是要把所有这些都归罪于一个有点儿不足道的电脑游戏。

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Three mad kids followed my friend out of the Tube in London last year and murdered him on his doorstep .

去年，我的朋友出地铁时被三个疯子跟踪，之后在家门口被这三个疯子杀害。

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Last Halloween, a five-year-old girl showed up at my doorstep wearing a tube top, miniskirt, platform shoes and eye shadow.

去年万圣节前夕，一个5岁大的小女孩出现在我家门口，她身上穿着一件直筒式抹胸（tubetop），配了一条超短裙，脚上穿着松糕鞋，脸上打着眼影。

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But if the European Union does not get its house in order, it risks losing political clout on its own doorstep .

然而，如果欧盟不进行内部整改，那么就有可能在自己家门口丧失政治影响力。

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And yet, whenever I tried to picture his life, the first thing I saw was Vimal dropping a burlap sack of grain on his cousin’s doorstep .

然而，无论何时当我试着描绘他的生活时，我头脑里想到的第一个画面就是维姆正把一袋粮食放在他堂弟的家门口。

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If programmed properly, it could even dial Safeway. com and all of my groceries could be delivered to my doorstep .

如果程序足够优秀的话，它甚至可以自动在Safeway.com网站上进行订购，而我要买的日用百货会很快就被送到家门口。

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It’s actually easier to call a taxi company listed in the Yellow Pages of a telephone d a cab to pick you up at your doorstep .

事实上一种较为便利的做法是按电话簿黄页部分所列的出租车公司的号码打电话叫车

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What if you woke up every morning to find a customized newspaper on your doorstep ?

试想，每天清晨当你醒来，在门阶上躺着一份为你量身定制的报纸将会是何种感受？

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The book also leaves blame for the change in China’s males on the doorstep of Chinese popular culture.

书中同时还认为中国流行文化改变了男性的形象。

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He told authorities she had joined a sect, and that over the years had dumped three of her children on his doorstep , unable to cope.

他告诉当局，伊丽莎白参加了一个宗教组织，因为不能照料小孩，在几年的时间里在他门口丢下了三个孩子。

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He firmly expects Barack Obama to send American forces to intervene soon in the nasty guerrilla conflict on his doorstep .

他坚定地期待美国总统巴拉克•奥巴马能派遣美国军队，并迅速地干涉发生在自己门前的那些惨无人道的游击队冲突。

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They say a focus on bread-and-butter issues of tax and spend would play better on the doorstep .

他们建议更多的关注税收与支出的生计问题才是更好的门面。

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They drafted an indigestible, 1, 342-page bill in secret and then dumped it on Congress’ doorstep .

他们私下里起草了一份无法消化的长达1342页的草案然后扔到了国会的桌上。

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They can join the 4. 5m Britons a year who take out unsecured loans from doorstep -lending outfits, with rates of up to 500% per year.

他们也可以加入到450万英国人中，从“门阶贷款”（doorstep-lending）机构获取年利率高达500%的无担保贷款。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

Mr Robertson says that he has contacted city officials to alert them to the problem, but the notices continue to land on his doorstep .

他说，他已经联系过市里的官员，让他们注意到这个问题，但罚单还是如雪花般纷纷落到他的家门口。

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For a few moments he loitered upon the doorstep , looking round at the silent square.

他在门前台阶上耽搁了一下，打量了一下寂静的广场。

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