I know some of you come from Europe and other parts of the world where the ground floor is rez-de-chauss?e or some silly thing like this 1 and you push a button on the elevator to one and you go up to the first floor.

我知道你们中间有些人来自欧洲,或者世界其他地方，你们那里的一楼,和地面齐平，或者像这样可笑的事情,比如你要按下电梯的按钮,然后才能上到真正的1楼。

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Pulling this lever or pushing the button would actually rotate the paper enough so that you'd be on a new line and it would also move the little imprinting head that prints the letters of the alphabet and such all the way to the left.

拉杆或按下按钮会让纸翻一下,这样你就能在新的一行上打字了,同时移动打印字母的,压印头,这样也能移到最左边。

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And then of course, the point of the skit is he presses the down button on the elevator and a minute and a half goes by while he's waiting for the elevator to come.

当然，这个滑稽短剧的笑点是,他按下了电梯按钮,花了一分半,等电梯。

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