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，在没有使用数字地方，新闻和广告会被在一块铁制版上，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”开始指是版上实际材料以及版身。

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

版被安装到机上，最终报纸被出来。

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，其中一个跑了五英里到警察局， 以确保他或版不被损坏。

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

所以他没用版 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.

商显然将这些联合版称为“锅炉版”，因为它们与制造蒸汽锅炉所用镀层相似。很快，样板就开始指版上材料以及版身。

I'm curious. The plate in question?

我很好奇提到这个版？

How did Ford know about the plate?

福德怎么知道版事？

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

如果他真想隐退，大可以毁掉版啊。

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

要是甘斯发现版在她家就糟了。

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

好吧 版确最重要 但那只是个开始。