inkwells

My mother told tales of the boys in her class dipping the pigtails of the girls sitting in front of them into the ink in those inkwells.

我妈妈在故事里讲到，说她课堂上的男孩子们有时会把前排女生的辫子放到墨水池里。

This technology lasted so long that when I started going to school the desks still had holes in them for the inkwells.

这种技术流传甚久，我刚开始上学的时候，桌上还留着用来盛墨水的小坑。