核心畫面

Picture two sheets of paper with a dark, sheet between them. You press once on the top sheet, and a second sheet is written at the same instant, matching the first line for line. Every use of this phrase grows out of that one press: the sheet it produces, the idea of two things matching exactly, and the email that reaches a second reader in the same send.

可以想成兩張紙中間夾了一張塗了碳的黑紙。你在最上面壓一次,下面那張就同時寫好,一行一行都對得上。這個詞的所有用法都從更多收起可以想成兩張紙中間夾了一張塗了碳的黑紙。你在最上面壓一次,下面那張就同時寫好,一行一行都對得上。這個詞的所有用法都從這一壓長出來:壓出來的那張紙、「像到一模一樣」的概念,還有按一次寄出、第二個人同時收到的那封郵件。

Three branches

複寫紙壓出來的那一份

這一支是字面的做法本身,名詞是壓出來的紙,動詞是壓的動作。

noun · B2

A copy of a letter or form made by putting a sheet of dark, waxy paper between two sheets of writing paper, so that whatever is typed or written on the top sheet appears on the sheet below.

複寫本、副本

像到一模一樣

借的是複寫本和正本一行不差的那個特點,拿來形容兩個東西像到分不出來。

noun · B2

A person or thing that is so similar to another one that the two seem identical.

一模一樣的人或事

電子郵件的副本

紙沒有了,但「一個動作、兩個人同時拿到同一份內容」的畫面原封不動搬進了電子郵件。

noun · B2

A copy of an email sent to someone besides the main reader, so that person can see the message too. On the message itself it is written CC.

副本(電子郵件)