One doctor friend of mine suggested that "they haven't created life in any sense of the word, other than a person playing a cassette has invented the tape recorder."

我的一位医生朋友建议道：“他在任何意义上都不能说是创造了生命，只是像一个玩卡带的人创造出了磁带录音机一样。”

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The acquisition of my tape recorder really finished whatever emotional life I might have had, but I was glad to see it go.

获得录音机，确切终结了我所有可能享有的感情生活，但我欣见它结束。

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Our advice is to get yourself a scrapbook, a tape recorder, or a camcorder and preserve the memories of this exciting time of your life.

我们也建议您自己准备便签、录音机、摄像机，记录下自己人生最激动人心的瞬间。

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That's more the approach of Merrill Garbus, whose solo project is spelled tUnE-yArDs. (Hey, you won't forget her name, right?) Her 2009 album BiRd-BrAiNs began life as a DIY cassette release, assembled with a handheld voice recorder the "note to self" kind and free audio-editing software.

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"We are very pleased that the boxes have been found, and have lasted almost two years down at 12, 800 feet, which is well beyond the design life that they were established for, " John Bolton, from flight data recorder manufacturer Honeywell, told CNN at the Paris Air Show.

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And this education continued throughout his life, though there came a time when the blue spiral notebook was supplanted by a tape recorder.

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