His home was up the hill, a terrace house in a small housing estate resembling many others in Europe.

他的家在山上，是一个小型住宅区的排屋，与欧洲的许多其他地方相似。

They were building lots of. kind of. small estates.

加上从科尔切斯特到伦敦只需要坐50分钟的火车。

My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire: I was the third of five sons.

我父亲在诺丁汉郡有一处小庄园：我是五个儿子中的老三。

The marquis had just entrusted him with the administration of a number of small estates and houses which he possessed in Lower Languedoc.

侯爵刚刚委托他管理他在下朗格多克拥有的一些小庄园和房屋。

But in the present state of Europe, when small as well as great estates derive their security from the laws of their country, nothing can be more completely absurd.

但是在欧洲的现状下，当大小庄园都从他们国家的法律中获得安全时，没有比这更荒谬的了。

When Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham.

南军统帅罗伯特·李投降后，他解甲归田，重返他的种植园，在那里又住了三、四年。大约在一八六九或一八七零年，他回到欧洲，在苏塞克斯郡霍尔舍姆附近购置了一小块地产。

The second speaker must have been in the long-neglected garden of an old manor-house hard by, which, together with a small estate attached, had lately been purchased by a person named Troyton, whom Elfride had never seen.

第二位演讲者一定是在附近一座古老庄园的长期被忽视的花园里，连同附属的一小块庄园，最近被一个名叫特洛伊顿的人买下了，Elfride 从未见过他。