The houses were getting boarded up.

房子都被封住了。

The windows were all boarded up.

窗子都用木板钉住了。

Never Board Up Your Windows. The right time to board up your windows is before a storm arrives.

切勿用木板封窗。用木板封住窗户的正确时间是在暴风雨到来之前。

Martinus picks broken boards up from local skate shops every week.

Martinus每周都会从当地的滑板店回收破损的滑板。

Elsewhere, residents on Oshima Island boarded up their homes and shops.

其它地方，大岛居民用木板封住住所和商店。

A word that we learned earlier to describe boarded up shops can be rundown.

我们之前学到的可以描述倒闭的的商店的词是破败的。

This neighborhood says it all, 15 percent of homes in Flint, Michigan are boarded up.

这里的居民表示密歇根州弗林特市15%的家庭都是用木板封上。

Some houses had boarded up windows, and others looked more like patched-up shanties than homes.

许多房子的窗上钉着木板，有些房子看起来有如拼凑搭建的棚屋，一点都不像住家。

It's like — how sad is that? — that you have to board up your business.

就像，要怎么说，你必须要把你的商店封上。

Sometimes in scary movies, people board up the doors and windows to keep monsters from entering.

有时，在恐怖电影中，人们会用木板封住门窗，以防止怪物进入。

We've been driving through here every day. And you look at all the businesses that are boarded up.

我们每天都会开车经过这里。你可以看到所有的商店都封上了。

They had only been open for a day when they had to close and board up their doors again.

他们只营业了一天，就不得不关上门，并用木板把门封上。

Shop windows and doors are boarded up.

商店的门窗都用木板封死了。

But when I arrived, the bank was boarded up.

但当我到达时，银行已经被封锁了。

It's boarded up, it looks terrible.

它被封起来了， 看起来很糟糕。

Residents were stacking sandbags last night and boarding up windows.

昨晚，居民们正在堆放沙袋并用木板封住窗户。

Every second house seemed to be boarded up.

【second】大部分房子好像都封上了木板。

Was the grotto boarded up after the bank took possession?

银行接管后 洞穴封闭了吗？

We’ll have to take the boards up to check the wiring.

【board】我们得把地板撬起来检查一下电线。

This was my house on the day I boarded it up to protect it from the elements and further decay.

这是我那天的房子， 我用木板把它封起来，以保护它免受恶劣天气和进一步腐烂的影响。