That's why they invented the mail system and carbon paper and onion skin copies.

反正现在有邮政系统，还有复写纸纸。

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

事实是，所有的改写 使他成为了复写人物。

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·杰斐逊合作研制了一种被称为复写器的便携式写台，但这不是普通的写台，这张写台可以同时复印几份手稿。

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

复写纸可让一份文件迅速印出两份复件。

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

人类基因组计划最近成了一套整的人类DNA的复写。

Some fishing dispute he wanted me to copy.

还让我复写某份渔业纠纷。

" 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，“复写你的记录，韦斯莱，马上把副本送给《预言家日报》。要是派一只速度快的猫头鹰，我们还能赶上今天早上的那一版！”

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，械式打不只是时尚人士的专利，复制文件最快的方法是使用一种叫做复写纸的特殊纸张。

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、复写纸电话簿。

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

把复写纸两张普通的纸一起装进打，你就可以得到两份全相同的复印件。

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

我还记得上世纪70年代上高中的时候用过复写纸。

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.

史高治的帐房门是开着的, 这样他就可以盯着他的书记看, 书记在後面一个阴暗的小牢房里, 一个坦克, 正在复写信件。

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

会收到一封让孩子们开心的回信，而不是让他们失望的复写副本。

Adding machine and carbon paper got me this far.

只凭计算器与碳式复写纸也让我混到这样啊。

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，这本复写版随后经历了一些更艰难的时期，但最终它最终在一场艺术拍卖会上被买下，然后捐赠给巴尔的摩的一家艺术博物馆进行保护研究。

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

如果你没有放额外的纸张碳复写纸，它是不会起作用的。

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

我们使用“cc” 这两个母是因为它们来源于一个旧术语“carbon copy”（碳复写纸）。