At the beginning of the nineteenth century, in 1800, paper was handmade out of cloth-- that's the way they made it.

在19世纪初叶，即1800年，当时的人用布料手工制纸。

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I made them up out of whole cloth.

我相当于把它们从一整块布料中剪裁来。

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They invented the paper machine so they could mass-produce paper-- it didn't have to be handmade anymore-- and they invented wood pulp paper so it didn't have to be made out of cloth anymore.

于是人们发明了造纸机从而可以大量生产纸-,而不再需要手工制作-,后来人们还发明了木浆纸,所以后来不再用布料来制纸。

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