The Latin manuscript might have been penned hundreds of years earlier and then these explanatory notes added right there on the old pages either crowded between the lines or off in the margin.

这些拉丁原稿也许早在几百年前便已被书写成文，而后人们或直接在古书行与行或页边空白之间添加这些解释的集注。

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Using phrases like "Evidently, it defines ten simple methods for managing roles", one must wonder if the manuscript got swapped with author's preliminary notes by accident.

书中用到了类似的短句“显然，它定义了十个简单方法用来管理角色”，读者不得不怀疑，是否在偶然情况下，出版商误把作者的草稿当作了最后的定稿。

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One, called Manuscript B and preserved in the Institut de France in Paris, contains notes on everything from architecture to flying machines, accompanied by exquisite drawings.

其中一本，叫做手少本B，珍藏在巴黎法兰西学院。 里面的内容几乎无所不包：从建筑到飞行器，样样都伴随着精致的绘画。

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He was left alone in a room with the manuscript pages and was forbidden to take notes.

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In the eighteenth century, a French scholar discovered a manuscript of the Iliad from the tenth century A.D. that came complete with transcriptions from the marginal notes of ancient commentators.

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