The truth is that this world of adaptation has made him into a palimpsest.

事实是，所有改写 使他成了写人物。

Carbon paper allows two copies of a document to be made at once.

写纸可让份文件迅速印出两份件。

The Human Genome Project had recently finished spelling out an entire set of human DNA.

人类基因组计划最近完成了套完整人类DNA写。

Some fishing dispute he wanted me to copy.

还让我写某份渔业纠纷。

Think wistfully of the days when journalism involved a typewriter, carbon paper and the telephone directory.

怀念旧日，那时新闻工作还用得上打字机、写纸和电话簿。

Surely, though, the more modest goal of the carbon-paperless office is within the reach of mankind?

尽管，个更保守目标——无写纸办公室——想必应该在人类可达成范围内了吧？

And there are other niches : tattooists and pigeon racers, apparently, find it vital (see article).

例文身师和赛鸽选手很显然会写纸很重要。

Adding machine and carbon paper got me this far.

只凭计算器与碳式写纸也让我混到这样啊。

I remember using carbon paper back in the 1970s, when I was in high school.

我还记得上世纪70年代上高中时候用过写纸。

We use the letters " cc" because they come from an old term, which is " carbon copy."

我们使用“cc” 这两个字母是因它们来源于个旧术语“carbon copy”（碳写纸）。

If you typed it without putting the extra piece paper and the piece of carbon paper it wouldn't work.

果你没有放额外纸张和碳写纸，它是不会起作用。

You would load the carbon paper into the typewriter along with two normal sheets of paper to produce two identical copies of the original.

把写纸和两张普通纸起装进打字机，你就可以得到两份完全相同印件。

And a reply would be sent that would please the child and not make them disappointed because they were getting a carbon copy.

会收到封让孩子们开心回信，而不是让他们失望写副本。

Before email was popular and mechanical typewriters weren't just for hipsters, the quickest way to make copies of a document was to use a special sheet of paper called carbon paper.

在电子邮件普及之前，机械式打字机并不只是时尚人士专利，制文件最快方法是使用种叫做写纸特殊纸张。

The door of Scrooge's counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters.

史高治帐房门是开着, 这样他就可以盯着他书记看, 书记在後面个阴暗小牢房里, 个坦克, 正在写信件。

He collaborated with Thomas Jefferson on what was known as the polygraph, a kind of portable writing desk, but it wasn't any ordinary desk, this one could make several copies of a manuscript at once.

他与托马斯·杰斐逊合作研制了种被称写器便携式写字台，但这不是普通写字台，这张写字台可以同时印几份手稿。

" Very well, then, " said Fudge, now radiant with glee, " duplicate your notes, Weasley, and send a copy to the Daily Prophet at once. If we send a fast owl we should make the morning edition! "

“很好，那么，”福吉说，现在他高兴得容光焕发，“写你记录，韦斯莱，马上把副本送给《预言家日报》。要是派只速度快猫头鹰，我们还能赶上今天早上那版！”

Uh, the palimpsest then went through some more tough times, but eventually it ended up at an art auction, where it was bought and then donated to an art museum in Baltimore for conservation and study.

呃，这本写版随后经历了些更艰难时期，但最终它最终在场艺术拍卖会上被买下，然后捐赠给巴尔摩家艺术博物馆进行保护和研究。