Writing out all the invitations by hand consumed more time than we had expected.

手写所有的邀请函花的时间比我们预计的更多。

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Writing that constant over and over again is tedious at best, and error-prone if you try to type it in each time by hand instead of cutting and pasting the value.

一直重复写这个值最多只是乏味，但如果你每次都手动输入而不是采用复制、粘贴，那么很可能会出错。

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We had half-an-hour for writing our copybooks; that was a time when, pen in hand, I used to become absent-minded and my thoughts wandered hither and thither.

我们有半小时的时间摹写字帖；这段时间我常心不在焉，手里拿着笔，思想却在到处漫游。

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