A group of water bugs was talking one day about how they saw other water bugs climb up a lily pad and disappear from sight.

一天，一群水生蝽在谈论它们如何看到其它的水生蝽爬上睡莲花的叶子，并从视线中消失。

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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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The next step up in size is the pad, something of a cross between a sheet of paper and current laptop and palmtop computers.

规模上而言，下一步是垫子，一种位于一张纸和当前膝上型和掌上型计算机之间的东西。

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They include the widely praised Aspire R7, which features a hinge-attached pad that holds up the touchscreen and allows users to pull the screen closer or flip it over the keyboard, transforming it into a tablet.

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We didn't have to change our usual or "traditional" finger positioning, meaning we were able to keep our right thumb in the bottom left corner of the pad and use our index finger to navigate. (Even if our thumb moved slightly up on the pad it still worked.) Best of all, while using that finger positioning we rarely zoomed in on something by mistake.

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