It reads like a phone book.

这读起来跟电话簿似的。

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Create a simple application: a phone book.

创建一个简单的应用程序：一个电话本。

youdao

A phone book?

电话薄？

youdao

Anyone? How many times can you tear a 4 billion page phone book in half?

谁知道？,40亿页纸每次对半撕，你能撕多少次？

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The piece of paper you have here is 250 names chosen randomly from a Manhattan phone book.

你们手上的那张纸有250个名字,都是从曼哈顿电话薄里随机挑出来的。

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So in 2002 McNitt flew to Los Angeles, grabbed a phone book and started canvassing fish stalls.

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The other day, my 14 year old asked what a phone book was for.

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In fact, the information that is gathered from Monster is no different than that displayed in a phone book.

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