I knew that if I didn't make a note I would lose the thought so I asked to borrow a pen or pencil.

我知道如果我不做一个记录我就会忘记这个想法，于是我要求借支钢笔或铅笔。

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'What's your name?' he asked, pointing at the child with his pen.

他用笔指着小孩问：“你叫什么名字？”

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She asked me what color my pen was.

她问我的钢笔是什么颜色。

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One recent day, Mr. Ramini stopped visitors as they approached the pen and asked them to sit nearby for about 20 minutes.

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Unable to understand him, his ex-wife who was caring for him at the time gave Tommy a pen and paper and asked him to write down what he meant.

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And, fatefully, in the late 1990s, I asked him to pen an advice column for P.

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