Why is a raven like a writing desk?

为什么一只渡鸦喜欢写字台？

" We've been wanting to ask you for ages—could you have a look in the writing desk in the drawing room and tell us what's inside it? "

“我们好一直想问问你——你能不能看看客厅的那张写字台，告诉我们里面是什么东西？”

He collaborated with Thomas Jefferson on what was known as the polygraph, a kind of portable writing desk, but it wasn't any ordinary desk, this one could make several copies of a manuscript at once.

他与托马·杰斐逊合作研制了一种被称为复写器的便携式写字台，但这不是普通的写字台，这张写字台可以同复印几份手稿。

According to the story, a friend came to visit him one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter despair.

据说，某天有位朋友去看他，发现这位伟大作家趴在书上，一副绝望的姿态。

Robert's father was a scholar as well as a soldier, and the boy always remembered him sitting in a big chair or at his desk writing an account of the battles he had fought with his beloved George Washington.

罗伯的父亲是一位学者，也是一名士兵，小男孩总是记得他坐在一张大椅子上或书前，写着他与挚爱的乔治·华盛顿之的战斗。

Even in the cramped quarters of the family's trailer, he made a point to set aside space for a writing desk and typewriter.

即使在家庭拖车狭小的房里，他也意留出一个写字台和打字机的空。

Ibsen bought a portrait of Strindberg, retitled it " The Outbreak of Madness" And hung it above his writing desk.

易卜生甚至买了一幅堡的画像 给它重新命名为《疯子的爆发》 然后把它挂在写字台的上方。

Looking into the drawing room, she saw a scene of confusion over by her writing desk.

她往起居室里看去，写字台边一片狼籍。

Then Mrs Weasley turned to Sirius and said, " I've been meaning to tell you, there's something trapped in that that writing desk in the drawing room, making him rattling and shaking."

然后，韦莱夫人转脸望着小天狼星：“小天狼星，我一直想告诉你，客厅的那张写字台里面关着什么东西，它不停地摇晃，发出咯啦啦的声音。”

Pin it up over your writing desk where you can see it every day.

把它贴在你的书上，每天都能看到。

There's even an entire writing desk in here.

这里甚至还有一整张写字台。

" And your writing desk—how is it this morning" !

“还有您的写字台——今天早上怎么样了？”

He furnished his sparse home with a tiny writing desk and a tattered straw chair.

他用一张小小的写字和一把破旧的草椅，把简陋的家勉强布置了起来。

He had an automatic chef, a bed, and a writing desk, and no other furniture.

他有一个自动厨师、一张床和一张写字台，没有其他家具。

So imagine for a moment that you're sitting at the writing desk up in the writing garret, wind whistling around the roofs.

所以想象一下， 你正坐在阁楼的写作前，风在屋顶上呼啸。

When she had done that, she made her bed and got started on her writing desk.

完成后，她整理了床铺， 开始整理写字台。

Alberto removed his wig and laid it on the writing desk.

阿尔贝托取下假发放在写字台上。

Gourel began to demolish a great stack of empty wine-casks, writing desks and old rickety tables.

古雷尔开始拆掉一大堆空酒桶、写字台和摇摇晃晃的旧子。

On the chair in front of the writing desk was a huge pile of dirty laundry.

写字台前的椅子上放着一大堆脏衣服。