办公室发出的函件都由我打。我是办公室中惟一会速记的人。

I typed all the letters that went out of the office.I was the only one there who could take shorthand.

youdao

你打字和速记的技术都非常好，你有兴趣申请这份工作吗？

Your typing and stenography are pretty good. Would you be interested in applying for the job?

youdao

当他意识到速记的实用性时，他开始阅读与速记有关的中文书籍。

Realizing how useful the subject could be, he began reading related books in Chinese.

youdao

I then assign thankful true, if so, but notice this little trick: -- I'm going to keep doing this while I am bang thankful -- bang exclamation point means "not," so this is shorthand, sort of clever elegant notation for "while I'm not thankful, keep doing this."

然后我给thankful赋true值，如果是这样，注意这里有个小技巧：,我将一直这样做，当我用满意时-,感叹号在这里的意思是“非“，这是一个可速记的，有几分机灵优雅的符号,用来说明：“当我不满意，保持这样做“

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