The power of a lover's stare has been written in romance novels ever since an ink pen was first laid to a piece of parchment.

自从人类开始在羊皮纸上写下文字，诸多言情小说中便可见到关于爱人的注视所具有的力量的描写。

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After all, I'm not writing this on parchment paper with feathers dipped in a well of ink, am I?

时代毕竟是滚滚向前的，我写这文章已经不用羽毛笔蘸墨水在羊皮纸上一笔一划了，不是吗？

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The Constitution is ink on parchment.

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Ink and paper (or parchment or papyrus) have functioned brilliantly as a presentation and storage medium for a couple of thousand years.

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The parchment has darkened over the span of 2, 000 years, to a yellow brown, and the ink marks that were once black are graying.

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