From the nursery her talk was of books, and at the age of twelve she was already able to give her father some assistance as an amanuensis.

从幼始, 她的话题就是书籍, 12岁时, 她已经能够作为一名图书管理员为父亲提供一些帮助。

There's a young fellow named Humphrey Newton, shared his rooms, you know, these students always shared rooms with one another, became his kind of amanuensis to write down what Newton was doing.

有个叫汉弗莱·牛顿的年轻人，与他同住一室， 你知道，这些学生总是彼此合租房间，了他的某种秘书， 负责记录牛顿的所作所为。