Number one, many commonplace books for all of your essays.

首先，你可以准备几本小本子来为之后撰写文章做准备。

There's nothing quite like getting fully a must in a piece of research and this commonplace book is just one part of that.

没有什么比完成一项研究更重要的了了，这本普通的书只是这项工作其中的一部分。

This really fits into irresponsible reading, reading widely, reading a variable amount of literature which again as of the commonplace book helps with synoptic thinking.

这适用于非专业性阅读，你需要广泛阅读，阅读不同数量的文学作品，抱着读一本普通的书的心态，这有助于概要性思维。

Our visitor had no sooner waddled out of the room—no other verb can describe Mrs. Merrilow's method of progression—than Sherlock Holmes threw himself with fierce energy upon the pile of commonplace books in the corner.

我们的来访者刚一摇摇晃晃地走出房间——没有其他动词可以形容梅里洛夫人的进展方式——夏洛克·福尔摩斯就以旺盛的精力扑向角落里那堆平淡无奇的书。