We used to speak of reading a book as an immersive experience, too, but "immersive" now seems shorthand for "video on a screen."

我们当初还把读书的感觉称为如临其境呢。可如今“如临其境”不过是“在屏幕上播放的视频”的简省说法罢了。

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The book contained some strange shorthand symbols.

书上有一些奇怪的速记符号。

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There they also learnt book-keeping, accounts and shorthand.

在那儿，他们还学习簿记、会计和速记。

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Because the stories I tell in this book are complicated enough as they are, I decided that the limitation of using the shorthand terms was worth the risk.

NPR: Historian Robert Satloff