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.
讓我們大感意外的是隔壁房子的劇變。我們知道它是套空置房，長滿苔蘚的花園裏野草不斷瘋漲，樓上的窗簾也從未開過。但一天，一紙公告後，液壓式挖掘機就把房子一拆而光，明年底，此處將拔地而起一幢由16套公寓房組成的住宅樓。
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