铅笔

Here is an astounding fact: Neither the worker in the oil field nor the chemist nor the digger of graphite or clay nor any who mans or makes the ships or trains or trucks nor the one who runs the machine that does the knurling on my bit of metal nor the president of the company performs his singular task because he wants me.

这真是令人惊异的事：油田工人或化工师家，或石墨、粘土开采工，或者是制造轮船、火车、卡车的人，或者是操纵机器生产金属箍上的滚花的工人，或者是铅笔制造公司的总裁，所有这些人，都不是由于本人需要我而干自己的那份工作的。

The cold air sweetened, banded pebbles and crumbs of soil cast sudden pencil-long shadows and the rearing lodgepole pines below them massed in slabs of somber malachite.

冷空气慢慢散去，条形的鹅卵石和土块突然间洒下了铅笔一样长的影子，后面的黑松也在树下投下了一片浓黑的影子。

The cold air sweetened, banded pebbles and crumbs of soil cast sudden pencil-long shadows and the rearing lodgepole pines belowthem massed in slabs of somber malachite.

寒风变得和煦，聚集成堆的圆石与散乱的土块乍然抛出铅笔长度的阴影，底下大群梁木松形成灰暗的孔雀石板。

The cold air sweetened, banded pebbles and crumbs of soil cast sudden pencil-long shadows and the rearing lodgepole pines below them massed in slabs of somber malachite.

凛冽的空气慢慢变暖，山峦突然间洒下了铅笔一样细长的影子，山下的黑松郁郁葱葱，好像一堆堆阴暗的孔雀石。

He penciled down his name on a piece of paper.

他在一张纸上用铅笔写下了自己的名字。

He penciled the number on a card and handed it to me.

他用铅笔把号码写在一张卡片上交给了我。

The corner of one page was turned down, and there was a penciled star by one of the poems

有一页书角是折着的，上面一首诗的旁边有个铅笔星号。

She penciled his words in the notebook.

她用铅笔把他的话记在笔记本上。

So sometimes you will see pieces of writing with corrections penciled in.

因此，你有时会见到一些文稿用铅笔添进改正的文字。

Across the back of the canvas he penciled the title: The Surgeon at the Day of Judgment .

在画布的背面，他用铅笔写下了画名：《最后审判日的外科医生》。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。