the unemployed reporter pawned his typewriter to pay the rent.
失了业的记者典当了打字机用以交租。
twenty one years ago... i used to spend all my time, every day, at my typewriter following up every least 「lead」 that i could find.
「二十一年前......我习惯用自己的所有时间,一天又一天,坐在我的打字机前跟蹤我能找到的每一条“线索」。
with a nifty solder-gun and his small engraving lathe he could make an american typewriter speak 145 different tongues, from russian to homeric greek.
只用一把好用的焊枪和一个小型的镌板机床,泰特尔就能让一台美式打字机说145种不同的语言,从俄语到希腊语。
in 1961 the kgb confiscated the typescript and even, for good measure, the typewriter ribbon.
1961年克格勃没收了打字稿,为了更加严防,甚至没收了打字机色带。
the clatter of the typewriter rapped sharply from the opposite room.
从对面的房间传出尖锐刺耳的敲打打字机的哒哒声。
some visitors and workers claim to see him walking the grounds, while others have heard the clicking of his typewriter coming from inside the main house.
有些游客和工作人员称见过他在地板上行走,还有些人听见从房子里传来打字机的滴答声。
but typewriter is slow.
但是打字机很慢。
the typewriter is obsolete.
这架打字机老掉牙了。
she spent the majority of her time typing letters on an old typewriter to family and friends.
她依然成天的用那台古老的打字机给家人和朋友写信。
the tutor used to be a typist, so she brought the typewriter with her.
家庭教师过去曾是个打字员,因此随身带着打字机。
i remember an impassioned eulogy for the typewriter delivered years ago by one of my newspaper colleagues: how, he asked, could we write on a keyboard that made no sound?
我记得多年以前有个报社的同事为打字机做了一首悲情颂歌:怎么才能做到,他问道,在不发出声音的键盘上打字?
look at the keyboard of any standard typewriter or computer.
看看任何标準的打字机或计算机的键盘。
i heard the typewriter clacking in the next office.
我听见隔壁办公室中打字机发出嗒嗒的声音。
i sat in my dad’s study and plunked out my first 「novel」 on a manual typewriter when i was eight.
八岁那年,我坐在父亲的书房里,在那台人工打字机上敲出了自己的第一部「小说」。
he gave me his old underwood typewriter and i set it up in the basement.
他给我的是一台安德伍牌老式打字机,我把它架在地下室里。
i was still alive, and i still had a daughter whom i adored; and i had an old typewriter and a big idea.
我仍然活着,我还有我非常喜欢的女儿陪着我,我还有我的打字机和一大堆的好主意。
if his dream was to live in the woods, with a fireplace and a typewriter and sheaves of notes hooked on the wall, almost like a deaf-mute in his dealings with the world, that was his affair.
他的生活是住在树林中,屋里有壁炉,桌上有打字机,墻上挂着成捆的笔记,几乎像聋哑人一样与世界打交道——如果这是他梦想的生活的话。
the dog jumped down, went to the typewriter and proceeded to type out a perfect letter.
狗跳下椅子,走到打字机前,续上一张纸,打出一封完美的信件。
the secretary batted out on the typewriter the first draft of the document.
秘书在打字机上匆匆打出了文件的初稿。