Keep a little notebook or index card, and just put tally marks. Once you become more aware of your urges to buy things, you can start to control them.

在一个小本子或者索引卡上做数字记录，你可以开始控制它们。

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They engage the services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the grurin; the grurin receives the milk of the associates three times a day, and marks the quantity on a double tally.

他们雇用一个制酪工人，管他叫格鲁阑；格鲁阑把各会友的牛乳收下来，每天三次，同时把分量记在双合板上。

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His marks top the tally. He must be the champion.

他的成绩雄踞积分榜第一名，冠军非他莫属。

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But VW is making progress since that tally marks a 37% jump from the same period a year ago.

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This theory is used to support the discovery of three marks on the ground in the forest which some claim tally with the tripod feet on the capsule.

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