I took the pad and wrote on it.

我拿起便笺簿，在上面写了字。

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I took a pad and lay on it.

我拿了一个垫子，躺在了上面。

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They promised one another that if one of them ever went up the lily pad and disappeared, it would come back and tell the others where it had gone.

它们相互许诺，如果它们当中的一个爬上睡莲花的叶子并消失，另一个要回来告诉大伙它曾去哪里了。

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In her case, it was a launching-pad for the microeconomic reforms that cumulatively transformed the British economy.

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There is a minor issue with the D-Pad - it is not a joystick like on the K700, but a joystick looking select button surround by a D-Pad.

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Actually, it's more accurate to say that it's 95 percent BlackJack and 5 percent improvement, with a more inward-slanted, square d-pad that makes it considerably harder to accidentally hit the surrounding controls, and angled keys that offer an embedded numeric pad in the proper configuration (we appreciate what Samsung tried to do with the original BlackJack's every-other-key layout, but in practice, it just didn't work out).

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