China is also where the first movable type printing machines were invented.

中国也是最早发明活字印刷术的地方。

And standardized movable type, that was only invented like one thousand years ago, in Asia.

而标准化活字印刷术大概是一千年前在亚洲才发明的。

And he was one of the first printers, so he had this movable type printing machine, this press.

他是最早的印刷商之一，所以他有这台活字印刷机， 这台印刷机。

The earliest movable type pieces consisted of reversed letters cast in relief on the ends of lead alloy stocks.

最早的活字印刷品由在铅合金枪托末端浮雕的反转字母组成。

Movable type allowed individual  characters to be arranged to form words, making the written word more accessible  to vast swathes of European populations.

活字印刷允许将单个字符排列成单词，使书面文字更容易为广大欧洲人口所接受。

Many historians use the invention of the  first European movable type printing process in 1450 by Gutenberg as a beginning point  for the early modern period in Europe.

许多历史学家将古腾堡于 1450 年发明的第一个欧洲活字印刷工艺作为欧洲近代早期的起点。