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。

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。

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

怀念旧日，那时新闻工作还用得上打字机、复写纸和电话。

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

尽管如此，一个更为保守的目标——无复写纸办——必应该在类可达成的范围内了吧？

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

我记得在 1970 年代使用复写纸，那时我还在上高中。

Adding machine and carbon paper got me this far.

只凭计算器与碳式复写纸也让我混到这样啊。

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

如果你打字时没有放多余的一张纸和那张复写纸，它就行不通了。

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的纸一起装进打字机，你就可以得到两份完全相同的复印件。

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时尚士的专利，复制文件最快的方法是使用一种叫做复写纸的特殊纸张。