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

事实是，所有改写 使他成为了复写人物。

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完成了一套完整人类DNA复写。

Some fishing dispute he wanted me to copy.

还让我复写某份渔业纠纷。

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

怀念，时新闻工作还用得上打字机、复写纸和电话簿。

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

尽管如此，一个更为保守目标——无复写纸办公室——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).

例如文身师和赛鸽选手很显然会认为复写纸很重要。

Adding machine and carbon paper got me this far.

只凭计算器与碳式复写纸也让我混啊。

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复写纸。

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

我们使用“cc” 两个字母是因为它们来源于一个术语“carbon copy”（碳复写纸）。

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

如果你没有放额外纸张和碳复写纸，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.

把复写纸和两张普通纸一起装进打字机，你就可以得两份完全相同复印件。

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

会收一封让孩子们开心回信，而不是让他们失望复写副本。

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，复制文件最快方法是使用一种叫做复写纸特殊纸张。

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, 他就可以盯着他书记看, 书记在後面一个阴暗小牢房里, 一个坦克, 正在复写信件。

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·杰斐逊合作研制了一种被称为复写器便携式写字台，但不是普通写字台，张写字台可以同时复印几份手稿。

" 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，么，”福吉说，现在他高兴得容光焕发，“复写你记录，韦斯莱，马上把副本送给《预言家报》。要是派一只速度快猫头鹰，我们还能赶上今天早上一版！”

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，本复写版随后经历了一些更艰难时期，但最终它最终在一场艺术拍卖会上被买下，然后捐赠给巴尔摩一家艺术博物馆进行保护和研究。