Before I got married to him, I didn't believe I could dream outside of a council estate.

我们结婚之前，我从没想过自己能离开廉租房。

So from personal experience, I grew up on quite a rough council estate.

所以从个人经验来看， 我是在一个相当简陋的议会庄园长大的。

It is a lovely book on the distinctly unglamorous subject of British council estates.

这是一本可爱的书，讲述了英国议会庄园这个明显乏味的主题。

As a kid growing up in a council estate in Southeast London, I was an outsider.

小时候在伦敦东南部的一个议会大厦长大，我是一个局外人。

At that point council estates became architecturally bolder but frequently worse in every other way.

在那一点上，议会庄园在建筑上变得更加大胆，但在其他方面往往更糟。

To move from one council estate to another is not merely like moving from one road to another.

从一处市政厅搬到另一处，不仅仅是从一条路搬到另一条路。

The 100 council estates described in John Boughton's book are not just places to eat and sleep, but domains with distinct cultures and reputations.

约翰·鲍顿 (John Boughton) 书中描述的 100 个议会庄园不仅是吃饭和睡觉的地方，而且是具有独特文化和声誉的领域。

The inhabitants of council estates have experienced (or, it has sometimes seemed, been subjected to) some of the most important currents in post-war architecture.

议会庄园的居民经历了（或者，有时似乎受到了）战后建筑中一些最重要的潮流。

It occurred to me only that their presence was magical, and that seeing them on the grassy wastelands around my council estate, as I stumbled home from parties and nightclubs, was everything I loved about being alive.

我只觉得它们的存在是神奇的，当我从派对和夜总会跌跌撞撞地回家时，看到它们在我议会大厦周围的草地上，这就是我热爱生活的一切。

It's a sort of mainly working-class town built up around the steelworks, big council estate to house the workers therethat my grandparents grew up onand my parents grew up on as well.

这是一个主要是工人阶级的城镇， 建在钢铁厂周围，有一个大型议会庄园， 为那里的工人提供住所， 我的祖父母和我的父母也在那里长大。