Traditionally, and in places where digital printing isn't used, the stories and adverts are registered on a plate, an iron sheet, in the size and shape of the newspaper.

传统上，在没有使用数字印刷的地方，新闻和广印在一块铁制印版上，其大小和形状与报纸相同。

Soon, the term " boilerplate" came to mean the actual printed material on the plates as well as to the plates themselves.

不久，术语“boilerplate”开始指的是印版上的实际印刷材料以及印版身。

The plates are hung on the printing press, and the final copies are printed out.

印版安装印刷机上，最终的报纸印刷出来。

And only because a couple of reporters, one of them ran five miles to a police station to keep his negatives intact or his plates intact.

而且仅仅是因为有几个记者，其中一个跑了五英察局， 以确保他的底片或印版不损坏。

That's why he hid the plate instead of using it.

所以他没用印版 而是把它藏了起来。

Printers apparently dubbed those syndicated plates " boiler plates" because of their resemblance to the plating used in making steam boilers. Soon boilerplate came to refer to the printed material on the plates as well as to the plates themselves.

印刷商显然将这些联合印版称为“锅炉印版”，因为它们与制造蒸汽锅炉所用的镀层相似。很快，样板就开始指印版上的印刷材料以及印版身。

I'm curious. The plate in question?

我很好奇提的这个印版？

How did Ford know about the plate?

福德怎么知道印版的事？

Well, if he really wanted out, he could have destroyed the plate.

如果他真想隐退，大可以毁掉印版啊。

If Ganz had found that plate in her house...

要是甘斯发现印版在她家就糟了。

Okay. The plate is the real deal, but it's just a start.

好吧 印版的确最重要 但那只是个开始。