If there are white ants in a large building, without cure, in no more than ten years, all the floorboards and wainscots will be completely eroded.
一座大厦如果有了白蚁，不加防治，不到十年时间，里面的地板壁板，都会蛀蚀一空。
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It was in the way the red light, breaking at the close from under a low somber sky, reached out in a long shaft and played over old wainscots, old tapestry, old gold, old color.