He picked her up and carefully set her on the desk, then fumbled in the drawer for an inkpot.

他把她捡起来小心翼翼地放在书桌上，然后在抽屉里找墨水瓶。

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A yellow beam of sunlight, filtering through the muslin curtains, slanted on to the table, where a matchbox, half open, lay beside the inkpot.

一缕金黄色的阳光透过平纹薄棉布窗帘，斜射在桌子上。桌上的墨水瓶旁边有一盒半打开的火柴。

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For most men, there was no cost to joining a company, but he was not most men. He dipped the quill into the inkpot, leaned over the first parchment, paused, looked up.

对大多数人来说，加入一个军团没什么代价，但是他可不是什么“大多数”，他在墨水瓶里蘸了蘸羽毛笔，趴在第一张羊皮纸上，停了一下，向上看。

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Along with the sketches came a cartoon self-portrait of a tall, thin, many-armed young man dipping a pen into his skull, which had sprung open like an inkpot.

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When he opened his eyes, he saw before him a glorious figure of a man holding a pen in one hand, an inkpot in another, and a sword tied around his waist.

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