尽管他家境一般，但也并不算贫穷。Though his background was modest, it was in no sense deprived.你得有硬通货才能买到还算不错的东西。You need hard currency to get anything halfway decent.他算出了他们活期存款账户上的余额总和。He figured up the balance in their checking account...
Sentinels were placed at all the approaches to the farm.在去农场的所有路上都布置了哨兵.Sentinels stopped them, enquired, passed them.哨卡拦阻他们, 盘问他们, 放他们通行.Their pink buds , thrust up like arrows , seemed sentinels watching over Baiyangdi...