Soon, the term " boilerplate" came to mean the actual printed material on the plates as well as to the plates themselves.

不久，术语“boilerplate”开始指的是版上的实材料以及版本身。

That's why he hid the plate instead of using it.

所以他没用版 而是把它藏了起来。

I'm curious. The plate in question?

我很好奇提到的这个版？

I told him about the plate while we were at rikers.

在监狱里我跟他提过版。

How did Ford know about the plate?

福德怎么知道版的事？

Well, if he really wanted out, he could have destroyed the plate.

如果他真，大可以毁掉版啊。

Okay. The plate is the real deal, but it's just a start.

好吧 版的确最重要 但那只是个开始。

If Ganz had found that plate in her house...

要是甘斯发现版在她家就糟了。

He took down a slim volume in duodecimo, printed in the seventeenth century, with queer plates, on which were all manner of cabbalistic signs.

他记下了一本 17 世纪的薄薄的十二卷， 上面有奇怪的版， 上面有各种各样的神秘符号。

Printers apparently dubbed those syndicated plates " boiler plates" because of their resemblance to the plating used in making steam boilers. Soon boilerplate came to refer to the printed material on the plates as well as to the plates themselves.

商显然将这些联合版称为“锅炉版”，因为它们与制造蒸汽锅炉所用的镀层相似。很快，样板就开始指版上的材料以及版本身。