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B. 1. On weekends, Peter worked as a tour guide on the side, making some extra money to help support his family. 2. You’d better keep aside a sum of money equivalent to 6 months’income to cushion against sharp declines in the stock and property markets. 3. After 10 years of hard work, the couple has finally scraped up enough money for the down payment of the house． 4. The general manager made it clear to Tom that the company had to let him go due to the economic downturn. 5. Under no circumstances should you lend him any money, as he may run through all the money soon． 6. We’ve grown very attached to this house and would hate to move． 7. The old man donated a sum of money to build a museum in memory of his late wife． The yellow brick bungalow on Evergreen Street in Wheaton had three bedrooms, a sun-filled kitchen and a garden of perennials. A bungalow is a house which has only one level, and no stairs.平房 perennials ?[p?r?ni?ls] n. 多年生植物 perennial ?[p??reni?l] a.终年的；长久的 In the beige bathroom, she saw the positive sign on the pregnancy test. Something that is beige is pale brown in colour.米黄色（的） 米色地毯 a beige carpet 灰色、海兰色和灰棕色也不错。 Gray, navy and beige are also good. In a corner of the second bedroom, painted lavender and turned into a nursery, their child said her first word. Lavender is used to describe things that are pale bluish-purple in colour.淡紫色. A trailing lavender negligee that swore at her bright red hair. ? 她身着拖地的淡紫色的长睡衣，与她那耀眼的红头发很不协调。 A nursery is a room in a family home in which the young children of the family sleep or play.幼儿室 我们已将最小的那间卧室改成新生婴儿的幼儿室.  Weve turned the smallest bedroom into a nursery for our new baby. All of it rushed back with bittersweet vividness on a recent autumn afternoon, as Beth and Tommy Machie packed their belongings. flash back ? Speed up forward Translation the underlined phrase 回忆快进到最近的一个秋天的下午，贝丝和汤米在打点装箱。一路走来的苦乐参半，还历历在目。 And although both are working again, they had fallen so far behind on the mortgag