Collecting raw material, which is reading books and taking notes, is very much like the process of brainstorming at the prewriting stage of an ordinary essay.

收集原始资料，即阅读书籍和做笔记，很像写一篇普通文章前的头脑风暴过程。

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She is listening to the lecture and taking notes.

她一边听讲，一边记笔记。

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A conference room, or the user's home or work space, with no recording equipment, as long as someone is observing the user and taking notes.

会议室，用户的家或工作室，没有录音设备也可以用人眼观察和笔记来代替。

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Aylmer sat next to his wife, observing her and taking notes.

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OK. The process of writing is exercising both halves of your brain, and it's actually helping you learn, and so taking notes is really valuable thing.

好的，记笔记的过程同时锻炼了,你的左右脑，而且实际上帮助了你的学习，所以记笔记真的是一件特别有价值的事情。

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You have lots of banks; the banks are taking in gold and issuing notes but they are forced by the Bank of England to keep a deposit at the Bank of England.

英国有很多家银行；,它们吸入金子并且发行纸币,但是它们都被英格兰银行强迫,在英格兰银行付保证金。

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He began reading football magazines, watching games, following all the players and taking notes as a kid.

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I've been listening to the voices on these platforms and taking notes about ways to improve the immigration-reform legislation.

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Contextual design works by having team members watch customers in the act of trying to solve their problem and taking notes.

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