He was in his office, battering the keyboard of his computer as if it were an old manual typewriter.

他在办公室重重地敲打着他的计算机键盘，好像在用一部老式的手动打字机。

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I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer.

我马上买了一台旧的手动打字机，感觉自己颇象一位名符其实的作家。

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Immediately I bought a used manual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer.

安顿后不久我买了一台二手的手动的打字机，真正感到像一位作家。

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He used a manual typewriter because he felt he could work faster with that than with the electric version.

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He wrote more than 70 books during his lifetime, most of the manuscripts banged out on a 1908 manual typewriter.

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Marshall said Lewis was a humble man who loved vegetable gardening, opera and musicals, and wrote on a manual typewriter until the day he died.

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