As computers become ever more prevalent, so the typewriter has become less and less visible.

随着计算机越来越普及，打机逐渐销匿迹。

A portable typewriter can be easily moved from place to place.

手提打机可轻便地到处携带。

Typewriters were very expensive and my family could not afford one.

打机非常昂贵，我家庭负担不起。

But Florence has to report all of these violations from the thief who took typewriters from every unlocked room in the dormitory to the thief who stole one million dollars' worth of art work from the university museum.

但是弗洛伦斯不得不报道这些暴力行为，从小偷在未锁门宿舍里偷走打机到在大学图书馆偷走价值一百万美金艺术作品。

Yes, I 'm looking for a job as a clerk typist in English.

是，我正在找英文事打员工作。

On turning eagerly to the text, one learns that the lady was a typist who found the sound of office typewriters worried her more and more until eventually she had to go into a mental hospital.

当人们急切地看完正文后，便知道这女子是个打员，打机使她越来越烦，最终住进了精神病医院。

They can also easily write in Braille with a special typewriter.

他们还可以通过一种特殊打机，轻松地用盲文写。

Something specific like a typewriter? Like a typewriter, yes, yes.

具体来说，是像打机那种吗？没错没错，就是像打机那种。

It also watches for what's called 'close-by hands', where both hands are close together near the top of the wheel, so the driver can type with both thumbs and drive at the same time.

它还可以观察所谓" 靠近手" ，当双手都离车轮顶部很近时候，司机可以同时驾驶并用拇指打。

The return to handwriting comes after many years in which typing on computer keyboards was taught and handwriting was pushed aside.

多年来，人们一直在教授用电脑键盘打，而把用笔写搁置在一边。

Well, I've been taking a correspondence course in typing and shorthand.

我参加了一项有关打和速记函授课程。

Well, when I first got a cell phone, I was so slow. I thought I would never text message. But then people kept text messaging me, so I felt obliged to learn how to text message. So now I'm pretty fast. What about you?

啊，我刚用手机时，打很慢。我想我永远都不会发短信。但是人们不断地给我发短信，弄得我不得不学。因此现在我打很快了。你呢？

As we type more and write less, handwriting has become a lost art.

如今我们打越来越多，书写越来越少，书法已经成为了一种遗失技艺。

I can just imagine a scene with a typist sitting on an old-fashioned typing chair, her back aching, exhausted, then we show her in one of your chairs. Her back properly supported filling full of energy, typing twice as quickly.

我直接就能想象出这样一个场景：一位打员坐在一张老式椅子上，她腰酸背痛，神情疲倦，这时我们把司其中一种椅子展示在她面前，坐上去之后她背部得到了很好支撑，全身充满了能量，打速度是之前两倍。

The typewriter, telephone and television broadcast, the Statue of Liberty and the Ferris wheel, the X-ray machine and the ice cream cone, all of them exhibited at World Expos.

打机，电话和电视广播，自由女神像和摩天轮，x 光机和冰淇淋蛋卷，所有这些都在世界博览会上展出。

Well, when I first got a cell phone, I was so slow.

啊，我刚用手机时，打很慢。

So you can use slang, you can use any contractions, but make sure you're spelling everything out and do not use abbreviations or don't use anything that you would type with.

你可以使用俚语，可以使用任何缩略形式，但请确保将所有内容拼写清楚，并且不要使用首母缩写，或者任何打时候会用内容。

Each letter printed from a typewriter took up the same amount of space.

打机打印每个母都占用同样大小空间。

I happened to come in one time and saw a letter in the typewriter.

有一次我偶然碰巧看到一封留在打机中信。

A spellchecker is a very useful piece of software which helps us avoid making spelling mistakes when we're typing on a computer but... it is good to actually learn how to spell the words properly and not leave everything to the machine.

拼写软件是一款很有用软件，它可以避免我们在用电脑打出现拼写错误。但是学会正确拼写单词而不是把所有事情都留给电脑是件好事。