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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With a roar, it began to rise slowly from the launch pad.

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If TiME is to make it off the launch pad it will have to grasp one of the smaller mission opportunities that Nasa periodically offers, such as the one it runs under its Discovery Class programme.

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Jobs picked up the Toshiba drive and combined it with touch pad technology from a then obscure company called Synaptics.

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Powering a gadget is as simple as dropping it on the pad.

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