密歇根新闻广播 用千万鲜花让废弃的房子最后一次绽放

A sad, old, derelict house in Hamtramck will literally¹ blossom for three days this month when it becomes Flower House.

For three days, all 15 rooms and two porches will be filled with fresh, colorful flowers and plants in one last hurrah² before the old house is torn down to make way for a flower farm.

It's all the brainchild of florist³ Lisa Waud.

Waud bought the "strangely perfect" house at auction⁴ in November 2014 and plans to fill it with flowers and plants with the help of 13 designers and 100 volunteers.

"People just whoosh⁵ right by (the house) in their cars on the highway and on that one-way service drive, and I bet no one has looked at it in 15 years," she says.

She's partnered with Reclaim⁶ Detroit to "responsibly deconstruct the house" and salvage⁷ any reusable materials after the installation closes.

Once the house is gone, the plot will be used as a flower farm for Waud's business, pot and box.

1 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

2 hurrah   

int.好哇，万岁，乌拉

参考例句：

• We hurrah when we see the soldiers go by.我们看到士兵经过时向他们欢呼。
• The assistants raised a formidable hurrah.助手们发出了一片震天的欢呼声。

3 florist   

n.花商；种花者

参考例句：

• The florist bunched the flowers up.花匠把花捆成花束。
• Could you stop at that florist shop over there?劳驾在那边花店停一下好不好？

4 auction   

n.拍卖；拍卖会；vt.拍卖

参考例句：

• They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
• They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。

5 whoosh   

v.飞快地移动，呼

参考例句：

• It goes whoosh up and whoosh down.它呼一下上来了，呼一下又下去了。
• Whoosh!The straw house falls down.呼！稻草房子倒了。

6 reclaim   

v.要求归还，收回；开垦

参考例句：

• I have tried to reclaim my money without success.我没能把钱取回来。
• You must present this ticket when you reclaim your luggage.当你要取回行李时，必须出示这张票子。

7 salvage   

v.救助，营救，援救；n.救助，营救

参考例句：

• All attempts to salvage the wrecked ship failed.抢救失事船只的一切努力都失败了。
• The salvage was piled upon the pier.抢救出的财产被堆放在码头上。