By August, Proust was writing to Vallette, informing him of his intention to develop the material as a novel.

8月，普鲁斯特写信给瓦列特，告诉他打算把这些材料写成小说。

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When you were finished writing, did you go back and ask yourself if all of the material was relevant?

当你写完的时候，有没有回头看看并问问自己是不是所有资料都是相关的？

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He spent 27 years writing Compendium of Material Medica.

他花了27年撰写了《本草纲目》。

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Anderson told Faulknerto develop his own way of writing, and to use material from his own part of the country.

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These would have been inscriptions either on pottery, which the earliest ones are,or on stone, but otherwise I'm sure there was writing on perishable material-wooden plaques, probably not yet paper, but these would have been destroyed.

有些是刻在陶器上的铭文,最早期的时候,是刻在石头上的,但另外,我能肯定,有些是写在易腐蚀的材质,比如木头,或者瓷片上的,当时应该还没有出现纸,但是这些都被毁坏了

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Medieval language is dense with abbreviations, because writing material was expensive and books could be published only by copying.

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This book might seem to tell a depressing tale, but it is enlivened by Ms Elliott's use of folklore material and regional writing to shed light on the intricate and (to the outsider) baffling ways of life and thought of the Ulster people as a whole.

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Gleason was astonished, but he was also savvy enough to know that something was happening in his city as folkies began going electric and writing their own material.

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