Some artists like this process because they can draw on the metal as easily as if they were using a writing pen.

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No. That's completely the wrong way to go about thinking what it's like to be a ball point pen.

并不是，这样想象圆珠笔的感觉,是完全错误的。

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No mystery about what it's like to be a ball point pen.

变成圆珠笔本身并没有什么神秘的。

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Now, if you guys are using your computer or you have a pen, I'd just like you to write down what your estimates are of a few foods I'll show you and see what you say.

使用你们的电脑,或者拿起支笔,请写下对以下我展示的一些食物,卡路里的估测,让我们看看结果

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There's nothing that it's like to be a ball point pen.

圆珠笔是没有感觉的。

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