And toward this end he began to take notes: he jotted down all sorts of data, time of day, type of gas used, time to drive back and forth, etc.

接近结束他开始整理笔记，他草草记写的：各种日期，每天的时间，用过的各种汽油，来去的时间，等等。

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Whether his inspiration was a person, an animal, plants or the corner of a room, though, light was his main prey. To help him capture it, he jotted down notes about weather and colours.

无论妙手偶得的是人，是动物，是植物还是房屋的一角，光线始终是捕捉的主打，为此他匆忙记下天气和色彩。

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She jotted down a few notes, but later mistranscribed them into an exercise book.

她草草做了些笔记，但后来错误的誊写在练习本上了。

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Over three days, the Nokia employees sat on folding chairs and jotted notes on an array of paper easels.

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People vented--largely about the IRS phone system's automated help line, sometimes about the constitutionality of collecting taxes--and IRS agents listened, nodded sympathetically and jotted notes.

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In his tent, Butterfield jotted musical notes on the back of an envelope.

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