He is painting freehand, without a paper strip to help him, because he thought that is what Mondrian did.

他在徒手作画，也没有用纸条辅助，因为他觉得蒙德里安就是这么做的。

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Some painters prefer the old, poisonous solvents and pigments to the new healthier materials. he is painting freehand, without a paper strip to help him, because he thought that is what Mondrian did.

一些画家会宁可选择旧的有毒溶剂而不是新的更安全的材料。他在徒手作画，也没有用纸条辅助，因为他觉得蒙德里安就是这么做的。

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Cut the paper lengthwise along the line. Don't cut off the last paper strip.

沿着纸张纵向剪，注意不要剪断最后一根纸条。

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At the same time, he switched from a paper strip to punched cards. (Making the cards the same size as dollar bills meant that existing storage cabinets could be used.) By clever wiring of the tabulating machine, it was possible to count the number of cards with particular combinations of attributes.

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His first design, patented in 1884, used a long strip of paper into which holes were punched to represent information.

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We were using typewriters, where the state of the art way to correct a typo was to backspace and put a strip of white paper behind the key and retype the word.

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