Without women, the telephone system crashed without switchboard operators, and newspapers couldn't publish without typesetters.

没有妇女，就没有了接线员，电话系统瘫痪；报纸也因为没有排字工而无法出版。

The Paige machine promised to take print into the new world.

这款佩吉排字机承诺将把印刷带入新世界。

Perhaps — perhaps the hurried printer had repeated the name by error.

或许排字工人太匆忙，误将名字排重了。

The stories he wrote for Orion's paper, his first publications, taught him that he much preferred writing to typesetting.

他为奥利翁的报纸写故事，这也是他的处女作，使他明白与排字工作相比，自己更喜欢写作。

During that period, typesetters were also paid by each line, so they often spelled words longer on purpose.

在此期间，排字员的工资按行收费，所以他们经常故意延长单词的拼写时间。

Um...And...you say why...is that important, well, you know, proportionally spaced fonts come from typesetting and beautiful books.

为什这很重要，你要知道，比例间距字体的原型出自于排字和精美书籍。

But it required such precise calibration and constant maintenance that it became obsolete almost as soon as it was released, and left behind by smarter, quicker machines.

但这款排字机需要精确的校准和不断的维护，以至于它几乎刚一问世就被淘汰了，被更智能、更快捷的机器取而代之。

Twain poured around $300,000 of his own money trying to keep the Paige typesetter afloat, which is over $9 million by today's standards.

为了维持佩奇排字机的运营，吐温自己投入了大约30万美元，按现在的参考标准，可以说已经超过了900万美元。

Laggards risk going the way of typesetters.

落后者有沦为排字工命运的风险。

What challenges might lie ahead Bright boy Alec marries Sandra and secures a job as a type setter in Fleet Street, but after a while both his relationship and his future in the print a threatened.

聪明小子艾莱克娶了桑德拉， 并在弗利到了一份排字工的工作，但过了一段时间后， 他的关系和他的印刷业前途都受到了威胁。

Caxton wasn't producing many spooky stories, but he was pumping out religious texts and when it came to descriptions of the  Lord Almighty, aka the holy ghost, his typesetters, inspired  by the Flemish word gheest.

卡克斯顿并未大量出版那些令人毛骨悚然的故事，但他却在大量印刷宗教文本。当涉及到对全能主宰——也就是圣灵的描述时，他的排字工人们受到了佛兰芒语“gheest”的启发。

Dutch type setters changed some spellings to match their Flemish conventions, like adding an H to ghost and ghastly.

荷兰排字者更改了一些拼写以符合他们的佛兰芒语惯例，例如在 ghost 和 ghastly 中添加 H。

Typesetters spent their days on a stool in front of a cabinet full of type drawers called cases.

排字工一整天都坐在柜子前的凳子上，这个柜子里装满了被称为字盘的抽屉。

He had worked in the Low Countries and his first typesetters came with him from the continent.

他曾在低地国家工作，他的第一批排字工人是跟他从欧洲大陆来的。

Until the advent of high-quality electric light bulbs, typesetters worked in poorly ventilated rooms full of smoke from oil lamps and their own tobacco, so it was hard to see all those tiny letters.

在高质量电灯泡问世之前，排字工们只能在通风不良、充斥着油灯烟雾和自身烟草烟雾的房间里工作，这使得他们难以看清那些微小的字母。

You see, Caxton needed experienced  typesetters to work his presses and all his best contacts were back in Bruges.

你看，卡克斯顿需要有经验的排字工人来操作他的印刷机，而他所有最得力的助手都在布鲁日。

James taught him to set type.

詹姆斯教他排字。

Finally, and importantly for our discussion of fine print, each character had its own cubbyhole in the drawer according to a standard, called the lay of the case, that typesetters memorized as apprentices.

最后，对于我们讨论的" 小字/细则" 而言，每个字符在抽屉中都有其专属的格子，依据一种被称为" 排版规则" 的标准排列，排字工在学徒期间便需熟记此规则。

See But typesetters are believed  to have thought that popping the H after the W was a better fit for  a language rich with THs, CHs, and SHs.

但据信，排字工人认为在W后加上H更适合这种充满TH、CH和SH的语言。

THE COMPOSER LAYS THE TYPE OUT ON A COMPOSING STICK, THEN PLACES IT IN A FRAME CALLED A GALLEY.

作曲家将字体排在排字棒上， 然后将其放在一个称为厨房的框架中。