50 years ago, this white clapboard community center was a church.

50 年前，这个白色社区中心是一座教堂。

It had a clapboard store and a gas pump, but it felt like paradise.

它有一个店和一个加油站， 但感觉就像天堂。

After half a mile, it rounded a corner and went down a short hill towards a cluster of dingy grey clapboard buildings.

半英里后，它绕过一个拐角，下了一座矮小的山坡，朝一群昏暗的灰色筑走去。

The whole clapboard house trembled as the two bodies met and Frasso fell back through the doors and crashed on to the sidewalk.

两具尸体相遇时，整个房子都在颤抖，拉索从门里摔了回来，撞到人行道上。

At the end of the village was a high clapboarded structure on which faded paint said: WILLIAM MADDOX AND SON, CARPENTERS AND BOATBUILDERS.

村子的尽是一座高高的结构， 上面褪色的油漆写着：WILLIAM MADDOX AND SON, CARPENTERS AND BOATBUILDERS。

I was ordered by Tibeats to rise very early in the morning, procure a keg of nails from Chapin, and commence putting on the clapboards.

蒂比茨命令我一大早就起床，从查宾那里弄来一桶钉子，然后开始装。

And all the first winter, how she had shivered with cold when the northerly gales shook the thin clapboards and the snow beat like hail against the loose-hung windows!

整个第一个冬天， 当北风吹动薄薄的， 雪花像冰雹一样打在松垮的窗户上时， 她是如何冻得瑟瑟发抖的！

Bought himself a whole ghost town way out on Highway 95. He's shored the place up-wooden sidewalks, a fancy saloon, clapboard hotel where he rooms the boys, even the old railroad station.

在 95 号高速公路的尽给自己买了一整座鬼城。他用木人行道、豪华的沙龙、他为男孩们提供房间的旅馆，甚至是旧火车站， 都在支撑着这个地方。

As they passed a rambling green clapboard house, a little black girl posted on the front steps cried, " Hyah she come, " and Dr. Meade and his wife and little thirteen-year-old Phil emerged, calling greetings.

他们经过一幢盖得凌乱不堪但装有绿色护墙的房子时，一个站在门前台阶上的小黑女孩喊道：" 她来了！" 米德大夫和他太太以及那个１３岁的小费尔随即走了出来，一起嚷着表示问候。

They drew up among the grey clapboard houses and shops marked DRUGS, BARBER, FARMERS BANK and WELLS FARGO, under a hissing gaslight outside a two-storey building which said in faded gold, PINK GARTER SALOON, and underneath, Beers and Wines.

他们停在标有药物、理发师、农民银行和富国银行的灰色房屋和商店之间，在一栋两层楼的大楼外发出嘶嘶声的煤气灯下，上面写着褪色的金色、粉红色吊袜带沙龙，下面是啤酒和葡萄酒。

At the end of the lane was the blue glimmer of the river; to the left, standing in front of a clump of oaks and maples, he saw a long tumble-down house with white paint peeling from its clapboards.

小巷的尽是河流的蓝色微光。在左边，站在一丛橡树和枫树前， 他看到一栋摇摇欲坠的长房子， 白色油漆从上剥落。