It was the rapidity of what happened to the house next door that took us by surprise. We knew it was empty. Grass was steadily taking over its mossy Japanese garden; the upstairs curtains never moved. But one day a notice went up, a hydraulic excavator tore the house down, and by the end of next year it will be a block of 16 apartments instead.
让我们大感意外的是隔壁房子的剧变。我们知道它是套空置房，长满苔藓的花园里野草不断疯涨，楼上的窗帘也从未开过。但一天，一纸公告后，液压式挖掘机就把房子一拆而光，明年底，此处将拔地而起一幢由16套公寓房组成的住宅楼。
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