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

复让一份文件迅速印出两份复件。

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

怀念旧日，那新闻工作还用得上打字机、复和电话簿。

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——无复办公室——想必应该在人达成范围内了吧？

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很重要。

Adding machine and carbon paper got me this far.

只凭计算器与碳式复也让我混到这样啊。

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

我还记得上世纪70年代上高中用过复。

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

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

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

如果你没有放额外张和碳复，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.

把复和两张普通一起装进打字机，你就以得到两份完全相同复印件。

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尚人士专利，复制文件最快方法是使用一种叫做复特殊张。