This word clerk kind of makes me think of 1800s, England, people in a dark office scribbling down notes.

文员这个词让我想起了 1800 年代的英国，人们在黑暗的办公室里潦草地记下笔记。

To be a trainspotter with your notebook, scribbling down the numbers of the engines as they trundle by, is a very British thing.

英式主义的本质也许就是英国人的精神本质——古怪、自谦、轻度自嘲.

Vain-gloriously, you start scribbling down every detail of your surroundings, as if you were drafting the opening lines of a best-seller.

徒劳地， 你开始潦草地记下周围的每一个细节，就好像你在草拟一本畅销书的开场白。

Most students learn best by engaging in frequent and even heated debate, not by scribbling down a professor's often unsatisfactory summary of complicated issues.

大多数学生通过频繁甚至激烈的辩论来学习，而不是草草写下教授对复杂问题的不满意的总结。