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从提辖那里买了几瓶Noodler's墨水，其中有一瓶是黑暗之心，里面的说明书看得我胆战心惊——美国人居然这么省钱导向，真是令人惭愧。印个说明书都不留边儿，里面到处都在给你算经济账，oRz啊！所以，我就忍不住翻译过来给大家分享一下。
一面是这样写的：
采用耐久墨水（但非防弹墨水）的可抛型签字笔，最新的价格水平是1.66美元/支到3.44美元/支（根据09年1月2日数据）。我们砸开这些笔，将其水性墨水倒出来以确定多少能等量于4.5盎司的滴管瓶墨水。今天市面上最流行的骗人耐久签字笔需要76支才能等量于我们的4.5盎司瓶装墨水，次流行的需要82支！按最大容量的走珠笔（76支）说，用我们能拿到的最低折扣价算，我们得到一些你可能感兴趣的购买比较数字。等量于一瓶“黑暗之心”、“北极熊黑”、“抗晕染黑”、“北极熊棕”等墨水（这些都附赠可反复灌水的钢笔，这些笔墨水得当就能在以极轻盈的接触——比如悬空的普通复印纸边缘上——划出道道，而圆珠笔、走珠笔、签字笔无论调校得怎么好都做不到这一点）的签字笔要花76×$1.66=$126.16（不含税）。按更费钱的签字笔算，4.5盎司的墨水等量于82×$3.44=$282.08.
在支票或文件上，你的签字笔墨水能不被丙酮和普通外用酒精擦掉吗？圆珠笔的字迹能不被烤炉清洁剂、漂白剂以及其他造假者的工具擦掉吗？和赠送的可反复灌水钢笔相比，你的可抛型签字笔能省一点儿钱吗？保护环境同时又能节省辛辛苦苦挣来的美元——这两个目标在年轻的美国人看来通常是相互排斥的（，可Noodler’s让你做到了）。;-)
通过4.5盎司的瓶装墨水和附赠的钢笔，无论何时我们能够以微弱的优势这么去做，Noodler’s墨水公司将继续为我们的客户提供这样的价值。实际上，我们正打算扩展这个项目，尽可能多地赠送更好、更多品种的钢笔。感谢你一贯的支持，没有这些支持我们将无法存在。Noodler’s墨水公司，LLC“世上最小的小墨水公司，最多的颜色选择。”（按：这个署名和Slogan都没有换行，因为换行要加大印刷品尺寸、增大成本。）
附原文如下，翻译得不准确之处还请方家斧正：
The most recent price levels for disposable rollerball pens with durable (yet not bulletproof) inks ranges from $1.66 each (when sold in a pack of 12) to $3.44 each (as of 1/2/09). We broke these pens open and poured their water based inks out to determine how many would be required to equal our 4.5 oz dropper bottle. The most popular fraud resisting rollerball on the market today required 76 units to equal our 4.5 oz bottle-and the second most popular such rollerball required 82 units. Using the lowest discount price we could find and the largest ink capacity roller ball pen(at 76 units)we have some comparison shopping figures that you may perhaps be interested in seeing:76 disposable units X$1.66 per unit(not including sales tax)=$126.16 equivalent per bottle of Heart of Darkness, Polar Blue, Anti-Feather Black, Polar Brown, etc……all of which include REFILLABLE fountain pens that write on the far end of extended 8＂X 11＂ plain paper sheets in mid-air with only the pressure needed to touch the paper to produce a line when flowing properly with ink…whereby no gel pen, ball point, or roller can write with that little pressure regardless of how well they are adjusted to perform. The more costly disposable rollerball pens equate to 82 units X $3.44 per unit=$282.08 equivalent per 4.5 oz bottle.
Can your ball point ink survive acetone and common rubbing alcohol on a check or document? Does that gel pen ink survive oven cleaners and bleaches-and other tools of the forger? Does your disposable roller ball save you any money-or reduce waste-vrs,the free fountain pen you can re-fill over and over again? Saving the environment can also mean saving your hard earned dollar-which should never be mutually exclusive goals from the perspective of this frugal Yankee…;-)
Noodler’s Ink will continue to strive to provide this value to our customers through the 4.5 oz bottle and free pens included with such bottles whenever we can manage the razor thin margin to do so-in fact, we intend to expand this program to included a greater variety of such pens as soon as possible. Thank you for your continued support-as we would not survive without it.Noodler’s Ink, LLC＂The smallest ink company in the world with the largest color selection.＂(c)
另一面这样写的：
为什么当其他墨水公司都在做可抛型墨囊而Noolder’s墨水公司还在坚持生产瓶装墨水？因为我们确信，可抛型墨囊不符合我们为顾客提供“为付出的每一美元换得尽可能公平的交易到我们的资源和能力”的目标。我们一瓶4.5盎司相当于72.94美元世界上最便宜的零售墨囊（相对于可比的墨水，尽管不是防弹的，同时我们也拒绝展会上的促销用免费墨囊）或相当于36.09美元北美市场上任何质量的零售墨水（从中亚进口的最便宜的非永恒墨水）。来自欧洲、日本和北美的墨囊通常每4.5盎司累计超过148美元，某些情况下甚至超过315美元！（数据引用自2009年1月16日）我们觉得这是无耻地过分（尤其是在墨水质量低劣的情况下），我们将继续只发售瓶装墨水（和一些免费的钢笔）知道产业/技术条件能让零售的瓶装墨水和墨囊在同等重量/容量情况下花费同等的开销。至于可抛型墨囊的环境成本，我们相信节俭是清洁环境的天然盟友（这不同于“环保论者”）。可重复灌墨的钢笔能装更多墨水却整体花费更低，为什么要多此一举做墨囊呢？至于书写的质量，这个盒子里有一支免费的钢笔，你自己可以看写的效果怎么样。我们坚信它会为你服务得很好——否则它不会首先被发售。;-)
附原文如下，翻译得不准确之处还请方家斧正：Why does the Noodler’s Ink Company insist on bottled ink, when virtually all other ink companies issue disposable ink cartridges? We actually believe that disposable ink cartridges are incompatible with our goals of providing our customers with the＂fairest deal possible per dollar given our resources and abilities＂.A 4.5 oz. bottle of our ink has the equivalent of $72.94 in the LEAST COSTLY retail cartridges in the world(for comparable ink-though not＂bulletproof＂-and we exclude free promotional cartridges at shows)-and $36.09 in the least costly retail ink of any quality in North America(lowest cost non permanent inks imported from central Asia).Ink cartridges from European,Japanese,and the North American companies that issue them routinely amount to well over $148 per 4.5 oz. and in several instances average well over $315!(Quotes obtained as of 1/16/09) We find this to be outrageously excessive(particularly in instances where the ink has inferior properties!!)and will continue to issue only bottled ink(and some free pens)until industry/technology is capable of equal costs at the retail level for both bottled and cartridge ink per given weight and/or volume of ink.As to the environmental costs of disposable cartridges-we believe frugality tends to be a refillable fountain pen holds more ink and for far less overall costs? As to writing quality-you have the free pen in this box…you can see for yourself how it writes.We are confident that it will serve you well-otherwise it would not have been issued in the first place.;-) |
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