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what's the meaning of "tract no longer stood"? "The angels lived with old Woman Josie, in her small tract home whose tract no longer stood, leaving it alone at the edge of town." what's the meaning of "tract no longer stood"? Thank you.

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tract home/house = 住宅區房屋 tract = 一片地. tract no longer stood, 詩意寫法, 無佐屋, 天使住在老婆婆的家中. 區道已非前比. 其住宅區房屋已成為城鎮邊緣孤獨的一間
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I'm guessing this is from a novel. A tract is a small piece of land, so a tract home is a house on a small piece of land. If you say, for example 'the house no longer stood' it means the house was not there any more. So to say the 'tract no longer stood' doesn't make sense, as surely the land is still there. But I think it might refer to tract as being a term for a housing development, ie many houses. So I think it means that all the other houses have gone, except for one.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tract_housing Merriam Webster has Definition of tract house : any of many similarly designed houses built on a tract of land
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这是一本小说里的句子吗?

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