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

我参加了一项有关打字和函授课程。

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

你愿意接受打字和测试吗？

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人。

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

他飞快地冲进里间办公室，像个卖空头人急于想要得到补足那样，他径直冲向办公桌。

" Oh, my dear, " beams Skeeter, rapping me affectionately across the knuckles, " you know as well as I do how much information can be generated by a fat bag of Galleons, a refusal to hear the word 'no, ' and a nice sharp Quick-Quotes Quill! "

哦，亲爱，" 斯基特微笑着，亲切地用指关节敲打着我，" 你当然知道一大袋加隆、从不让人拒绝作风、还有一支美妙笔可以换来多少消吗！

The first structured distance learning or correspondence courses were probably the shorthand courses offered by the Pitman organization at the end of the 19th century.

最早远程学习可能是皮特曼组织于十九世纪末开设课程。

I bristle at this, not only because I know sadness to be a shorthand description for deep, vibrantly aware feeling.

我对此感到愤怒，不仅是因为我知道悲伤是对深刻、充满活力感描述。

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

好。您看是用方式录，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·斯基特那支羽毛笔大概会兴奋得爆炸起来。

It was half past nine, and Mr. Maxwell was with his young lady secretary.

早上9点半，证券经纪人哈维·马克斯韦尔在年轻女陪同下来到办公室。

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.

计算机科学领域黑客行为有时是编写真正令人印象深刻代码。

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事？”

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袍子，她手里笔与袍子颜色十分般配。

A lot of times in English we use what's called " shorthand" .

很多情况下，在英语中我们使用所谓“”。

It's the reason the mafia doesn't have stenographers in the family.

这就是黑手党家族里没有原因。

This is his Phonotypic Alphabet, but he  was also the inventor of Pitman shorthand.

这是他音标字母表，但他同时也是皮特曼法发明者。

The sleek little stenographer glanced up at T. A. Buck's entrance.

光滑小抬头看了一眼 T. A. Buck 入口。

Professionally, she got a job as a stenographer.

在职业方面，她找到了一份工作。

When she tried to extend the field of her activities in the direction of stenography and book-keeping her health broke down, and six months on her feet behind the counter of a department store did not tend to restore it.

当她试图将自己活动领域扩展到和账方向时， 她健康状况出现了问题， 在一家百货公司柜台后面站了六个月也没有恢复健康趋势。