I was, uh, just getting my notes together.

, 呃, 刚刚才整理好批注。

Readers come to book talks with their heavily annotated copies in tow, words of life advice underlined.

读者们带着密密麻麻批注书籍来参加书籍讨论会，划线标注着其中生活建议。

They're reading it–tearing it up with notes.

他们正在阅读，用笔记批注，几乎要将稿件撕碎。

I've read that Virginia Woolf was not a fan of annotations in books.

听说弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫并不喜欢在书上做批注。

I love inscriptions on fly leaves and notes in margins, she wrote.

她写道，喜爱扉页上题词和书页批注。

We can imagine the marginalia that would have provided context and insights.

们可以想象一下，如果当时有批注，会提供多少背景信息和深刻解。

I will make a notation that you did not tip.

会写个批注 说你没给小费。

My notes are in the margins.

批注写在空白处了。

He had thumbed through my work on the great ocean depths, and the margins were covered with his notes, which sometimes contradicted my theories and formulations.

关于海底秘密著作，他翻阅了，在书上写满批注，有时驳斥理论和统。

Yes, I mean, yes, you need to personalize, but I think your boss can sign off on a lot of the boilerplate stuff.

是， 思是， 你需要个性化一些内容，但觉得你老板可以批注很多标准条款。

There's the pitching, the researching, interviewing, writing, scoring… The hardest phase for me is that brief window of time when I've submitted a first draft to an editor and it's in their hands.

有提案、调研、采访、写作、配乐… … 对来说最难熬阶段，是刚把初稿交给编辑、稿子还在他们手里那短暂时刻。他们正在阅读，用批注激烈地“撕碎”它。

You just transfer all the letters from your In Tray to your Out Tray, put a brief note on the margin if you wish to see the reply and if you don't, you never see or hear of it again.

您只要把信件移到这文件格要是您想看到回复就在上加批注如果不加 就再也不用去管它了。

Whatever approach you choose, the key, it seems to me, is that your annotations reflect you, your curiosity and your engagement with the text, a dialogue that can anchor thoughts in your memory long after the final page is turned.

无论你选择哪种方式，在看来，关键在于你批注能反映出你自己、你好奇心以及你对文本参与度，这种对话能在合上最后一页后长久地铭刻在你记忆中。