When I wasn’t busy working, I would be laying out its bricks, chipping in little bits every day and working on it for longer periods over the weekends.

当我不太忙的时候，我就每天花点时间在本子里写点什么，在周末我就花更长的时间写更多的东西。

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Using abandoned and depleted buildings as his canvas, Alexandre creates fascinating large scale portraits by carefully scratching and chipping plasters out of walls.

他以废弃、残破的建筑为画布，经过他悉心地刮刮擦擦之后，墙上的石膏则被创作成了令人着迷的巨幅画像。

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Swigs taken from bottled drinks are short, so they don't miss out on chipping in with the conversation.

他们爱喝瓶装饮料，每口都喝很快，因为不想错过对话中的片言只字。

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But as participants in the summit's one contentious and genuinely thought-provoking panel pointed out, V-chipping the Net is no snap.

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