Tom's father bought him a ball-point pen as a birthday gift.

汤姆的父亲给他买了支圆珠笔做生日礼物。

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Imagine that I try to ask myself, "What's it like to be my ball point pen?"

想象一下我试问自己，作为我的圆珠笔的感觉。

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She labeled them neatly, writing the addresses in ball point pen and capital letters.

她为它们整齐地贴上标签，用圆珠笔标出大写字母地址。

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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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And I try to imagine, well, first, imagine being really, really stiff, because you're not flexible when you're a ball point pen.

让我试着想象，首先，想象自己变得非常僵硬，因为圆珠笔是不会动的。

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Imagine that I try to ask myself, "What's it like to be my ball point pen?"

想象一下我试问自己，作为我的圆珠笔的感觉“

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To demonstrate: as I sit writing this blog, I glance at a ball point pen on my desk.

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