Eventually, instead of printing from these directly, he employed them to stamp out intermediate dies which were then used as moulds to mass produce letter blocks made of a lead alloy.

渐渐地，他不再直接使用这些小钢块，而是利用它们压制出中等大小的模具，用这些模具可以批量生产出铅合金的字母块。

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During the Middle Ages before the invention of printing presses, every letter of a word had to be painstakingly transcribed by hand for each copy of a published book.

中世纪时印刷机尚未发明，要出版一本书，每一个单词的每一个字母都得用手工辛苦的刻出来。

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So I don't postpone hanging up my coat, printing out a document and filing it, glancing over a letter and throwing it away.

所以我总是及时挂起外套、及时打印好文件并填好，我甚至及时阅读信件然后丢掉，从不拖延。

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As for the crudities of hot-metal typesetting and letter-press printing, all these have long been superseded by electronic setting (in which a 1970s managing director, Ian Trafford, was a pioneer, and made The Economist one too), and by the stunning quality of modern offset printing.

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