Well, I've been taking a correspondence course in typing and shorthand.

我参加了一项有关打字和的函授课程。

Writers were blessed stenographers taking divine dictation.

作家都是员，下神灵的语言。

Would you be willing to take a typing and shorthand test?

你愿意接受打字和的测试吗？

But here's a quick note from someone who's walked the walk before.

但是这里有一份之前某位说到做到的人的。

Mr. Pitcher, she said, did Mr. Maxwell talk to you yesterday about getting another secretary?

“皮彻先生，”她说，“马克斯韦尔先生昨天提没提过另外雇一名员的事？”

He rushed into the other room. He stopped beside the secretary.

他飞快地冲进里间的办室，像个卖空头的人急于想要得到补足那样，他径直冲向员的办桌。

All of a sudden the shorthand, he starts to shrink.

突然，他开始缩水。

The stenographer is dressed like a spider.

员穿得像蜘蛛。

My typing and shorthand isn't good enough.

我打字和都不够熟练。

Of course, when we ask, " Where are you from? "

我们好像在用法。

693. The handicapped man got a second-hand handout of shorthand handbook beforehand.

残疾人事先得到了一本二手手册施舍品。

You're good at shorthand. Take them in shorthand.

你擅长，就用吧。

This was Miss Margitan, who taught shorthand and typing to the girls in the business courses.

这位老师就是教商务女生班和打字的玛吉坦小姐。

Hacking in the world of computer science sometimes is a shorthand for writing really impressive code.

计算机科学领域的黑客行为有时是编写真正令人印象深刻的代码的。

She was wearing acid-green robes today; the Quick-Quotes Quill in her hand blended perfectly against them.

她今天穿着一身艳绿色的袍子，她手里笔与袍子的颜色十分般配。

Yes. Would you want me to take them in shorthand or record them on a cassette tape?

好的。您看是用的方式录，还是用录音带录？

He had a funny feeling Rita Skeeter's Quick-Quotes Quill might just explode with excitement if he did.

如果奥利凡德先生泄露了这个秘密，丽塔·斯基特的那支羽毛笔大概会兴奋得爆炸起来。

She opened her crocodile bag once more, withdrew a piece of parchment, and raised her Quick-Quotes Quill.

她重新打开鳄鱼皮包，抽出一张羊皮纸，举起了羽毛笔。

But she's taken a postal course and has good speeds in typing and Pitman shorthand. Test her.

她学了函授课程，打字和皮特曼都很快。考考她吧。

She worked as a short-time typist for a year before she found a publisher for The Grass is Singing.

她做了一年的员，然后找到了《青草在歌唱》的出版商。