I jotted a note to myself to ask a question when I got home.

我记下一个便条，当我回到家时就可以提问。

youdao

I'd then excuse myself to use the toilet, note down what the beggars said, and send the information to my teammates.

然后我会借口自己去厕所，记下乞丐说了什么，然后把信息发给我的队友。

youdao

How was it possible, I asked myself, to walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing worthy of note?

我问自己在树林中走了一小时，怎么可能什么值得注意的东西都没有看到呢？

youdao

Indeed, I made a reminder note to myself on a Post-it Note stuck to a page in the iNotebook, and its text was saved in the iPad app.

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