My wife and I like our privacy, and those thin pecan strips are all that shield us from the cars and electric buses that creep past the other side of that window day and night.

• 我们夫妻俩都重视隐私，而且我们就靠那几道薄薄的叶片，将窗户那一边日夜不停穿梭而过的汽车和电车挡在外头。