手机：在手机里打一段英文文字需要不停地拨动手指。

Mobile phones: Typing text into a mobile phone is fiddly enough in English.

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此外，还可以告诉你阅读你创建的文字需要多长时间。

In addition, it can tell you how long it's going to take someone to read the text you are creating.

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虽然听起来有点老生常谈，但其实倾听比仅仅听别人说出来的话或者阅读书面文字需要更多的技巧。

This sounds trite, but involves a set of skills that is more than simply hearing the words spoken or reading the words on the written page.

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I don't need to write it down in words.

我不需要把它们用文字写下来。

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So what we think we know derives chiefly from archeological evidence, which is before writing--mute evidence that has to be interpreted and is very complicated, and is far from secure.

我们目前所认为的史实,主要都是从考古证据中所得,这些无声的证据出现于文字记录之前,因此就需要繁复的考证及解读,这些考证未必可靠

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It gives a sense of what this music is all--really all about and since, as we were saying, so much classical music doesn't have a text with it we've got to have some markers in there to know what the composer is trying to communicate to us.

让我们了解这段音乐想表达什么，就像我说的，大部分古典音乐并没有文字注解，而我们需要一些标记,来告诉我们作曲家想用这段音乐告诉我们什么。

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