1·The noise of the typewriters deafened her.
打字机的噪音震得她都要聋了。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Computers have taken the place of typewriters in most offices.
在大多数办公室,电脑已经取代了打字机。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·Writers are back to typewriters, for Word Processing is no more.
作家回到打字机时代,因为文字处理软件不存在。
4·People rarely consider that the tangible features assumed to be intrinsic to the "computer" were imitations of other objects, with keyboards inherited from typewriters and screens from television.
人们很少考虑,这些被假定为“计算机”固有的可触知的特征是对其他事物的模仿,如键盘继承自打字机,显示屏模仿了电视机。
5·Leave cryptic messages on the typewriters.
在打字机上留下神秘的信息。