He struggled to pay the rent on his $88 a month tenement.
他艰难地支付每月$88的公寓租金。
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He was a common figure in the streets and lived in some shabby neighborhood of tenement houses where there were hens and chickens among the cobblestones.
他在街上也算小有名气，住在一座廉租房里，与鹅卵石路上的母鸡和小鸡为伴。
In Rome, for example, most of the people lived in insulae, great tenement blocks that were often ten stories high.
