A phone trilled on the desk.

办公桌上的电话丁零零地响了。

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Harriet fiddled with a pen on the desk.

哈丽雅特不停地摆弄桌上的一支钢笔。

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He lit a cigarette and perched on the corner of the desk.

他点了一支烟，轻轻地坐在书桌角上。

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President Obama has said he hopes to have a health care bill on his desk before his State of the Union Address in January.

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He said "Steve, you don't get it. We're going to put a computer on every desk, in every home. You didn't drop out of business school to be the bookkeeper of a 30 person company."

他说“史蒂夫，你还没尽力呢,我们要让电脑进入每桌每户，你从商学院辍学又不是为了,给一个只有30人的公司当图书管理员的“

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Computers started out as discrete objects to be placed on top of furniture a PC on the desk, a laptop on the dining room table.

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The boss of one of the biggest American firms complains that a copy of one of his proposals ended up on the desk of a Japanese rival.

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You were still on the trading desk a good deal of the time in 1987 and part of 1988.

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