THEN INK IS BEATEN ONTO THE TYPE WITH MALLETS.

然后用木槌墨水打到铅字上。

If you don't want to get shut out like you're a heavy lead type of situation, I think Pollard is safe.

如果你不想像在处理大量铅字那样被排除在外，我认为波拉德是安全的。

These individual pieces of type were assembled into words and pages by typesetters, who were also known as compositors, because they composed type into something bigger.

些独的铅字由排字工（也称为排版员）组词和页面，因为他们铅字编排更大的。

The slivers of type were smaller, and although an experienced typesetter could pull type from the right cubbyhole, remembering the lay of the case, it was hard to double-check by eye.

些排版用的铅字更小， 虽然有经验的排字工可以从正确的格子里取出铅字，并记住版面布局， 但用眼睛检查起来还是很难。

In the 15th century, the printing press spread across Europe, which took this wild menagerie of squiggles, dots, and lines, and more or less standardized them into the finite number of symbols we know today, cast irrevocably in lead.

15 世纪，印刷机在欧洲普及开来，它之前那些杂乱无章的弯曲线条、圆点和横线进行理，大致标准化为我们如今熟知的有限几种符号，并以铅字形式固定下来，再也无法随意更改。