Why is a raven like a writing desk?

为什么一只渡鸦喜欢写字台？

The desk now held a secondhand computer, with the phone line for the modem stapled along the floor to the nearest phone jack.

现在这张写字台上有了一台二手电脑，外带一根连着调制解调器的电话线，电话线是顺着地板走的，另一头插在离得最近的电话插孔里。

" 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? "

“我们好长时间一直想问问你——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.

他与托马斯·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，这张写字台可以同时复印几份手。

The boys were in terror. Some ran to the door, others made for the tables.

男孩们害怕极了。一些跑向了门，另一些跑向写字台。

" Willie, will you run upstairs, and get my needle book from the bureau? "

“威利，你能上楼帮我把写字台上的针线盒拿下来吗？”

He stood behind his desk in the far end of the dim room.

房间里光线很暗，他站在房间另一头的写字台后面。

As Mister Mindon read it, he felt as if his mind was spinning out of control. He sat down heavily in the chair near his wife's little writing table.

明顿先生读这封信时，感觉自己的思想好像失去了控制。他沉重地坐到妻子小写字台旁的椅子上。

Holmes walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table.

福尔摩斯走到他的写字台前，取出一个小小的三角形的金纸包，里面有三块绿玉，顺手将它扔在桌子上。

There, Ellen sat before her tall secretary each morning, keeping the accounts of the plantation and listening to the reports of Jonas Wilkerson, the overseer.

在那儿，爱伦每天早晨坐在高高的写字台前写着农场的账目，听着监工乔纳斯·威尔克森的报告。

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间里，他也特意留出一个写字台和打字机的空间。

" A permit for you to initial, Director, " he said as airily as possible, and laid the paper on the writing-table.

“请你签个字批准，主任。”他尽可能堆出笑容说，把证件放到写字台上。

She sat down at her writing table, on which stood miniature portraits and which was littered with books and papers.

她在摆满微型肖像画、堆满书本和笔记的写字台旁坐下来。

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斯特林堡的画像 给它重新命名为《疯子的爆发》 然后把它挂在写字台的上方。

Surely, when she entered that room, Mother would again be sitting there before the secretary and would look up, quill poised, and rise with sweet fragrance and rustling hoops to meet her tired daughter.

无疑，她一走进那个房间，便会发现母亲仍坐在写字台前，她又会抬起头来，手里握着笔杆，带着幽雅的香气和悉卒的裙圈起身迎接她这疲乏的女儿。

I paid special attention to a large desk where there were a lot of papers and books.

“我尤其注意到房间里有一张大写字台，写字台上面乱七八糟地堆放着各种各样的信件和书籍。

So, we've put the study desks there.

我们已经把写字台放在那里了。

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。

I-i was, uh, dusting the other day and knocked it off the bureau, like an idiot.

有一天，我在打扫卫生，把它从写字台上碰掉了，真傻呀。

It sits on a desk in his study, protected merely by a rope across the door.

它伫在书房的写字台上，仅被一条横跨桌面的绳保护住了。