estates
n.
（人生的）阶段( estate的名词复数 );
个人财产;
不动产权;
（较高的）社会地位;
例句:
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Most modern housing estates are terrible and inevitably done on the cheap.
现在的房子大多质量差劲透顶，肯定都是偷工减料盖起来的。
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Certain estates are labelled as undesirable.
某些物业被归入不受欢迎之列。
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Landowners frequently left the management of their estates to tenant farmers.
地主们经常将土地的管理交给佃农。
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Some estates come to life and others don't.
来自NEWYORKER
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Taxes on large estates and investment profits would rise.
来自VOA
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He then retired to his estates in Wales.
来自BBC