I usually spend three or four days a week there to write, gather material and take care of other business.

在那里，我一周花费3到4天的时间来写作、收集材料，料理其他的一些事务。

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In order to gather material for my lectures, I had to plow through dozens of old books on economics.

为了收集讲课资料，我只好啃几十本经济学的旧书。

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In order to gather material for my lectures I had to plough though dozens of old books on economics.

为了收集讲课资料，我只好啃几十本经济学的旧书。

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The group wants to gather print material and look for video to document this development.

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In the Annals of Internal Medicine study, patients were mailed questionnaires and instructed to gather the material before seeing their doctor.

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The most common batteries are made up of negative and positive halves (the anode and the cathode), a material to separate them, and "current collector" layers at top and bottom to gather up the electric charges moving through.

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