中英文对照文章8.docx

剃须心得： 有钱不必花在刀刃上 A Penny Shaved Is A Penny Earned For years, Ive felt like a sap whenever I bought razors. 很多年来，每当我买剃须刀 时都觉得自己像个傻瓜。 It killed me to spend $2.50 to $3 a blade for my Gillette Mach 3. Yet the few times whe n I used cheap disposable razors, it was like shav ing with a file 为我的吉歹U锋速 3(Gillette Mach 3)买一个刀片要花 2.50 美元到 3 美元，这让我心疼不已。但有 几次我用便宜的一次性剃须刀时，感觉就像在用锉刀刮胡子。 Finally, a couple of weeks ago, I bought a serviceable store-brand razor that costs about half the price of the premier brands. Jon Protas for The Wall Street Journal 吉歹锋速 3 是好剃须刀， 但刀片的价钱真不便宜最终， 几星期前， 我买了一把商 店自有品牌的剃须刀， 这把剃须刀也还好用， 而且价格只有名牌剃须刀的一半左 右。 It shouldnt have come to this. Ive used Gillette razors for decades, and I like them. The rub is the cost. In my book, a fair price for refills would be about a buck. 事情不 应该变成这样。 我已经用了几十年吉歹剃须刀了， 而且我喜欢用它。 问题出在价 格上。在我看来，刀片的合理价格应该约为 1 美元。 Im a believer in markets, but it doesnt seem like the razor-blade market gives me what I want. Instead of competing on price, Gillette and Schick largely seem to be engaged in a silly arms race to improve a product that already works perfectly well. Two blades, three blades, four blades -- whe n will it stop?我 是一个信奉市场的人， 但剃须刀刀片市场看来并没有给出我想要的结果。 吉列(Gillette)和舒适(Schick) 并没有在价格上进行竞争， 而更像是投入了一场愚蠢的军备竞赛， 以改进一种本 来已经很完善的产品。双刀片、三刀片、四刀片一一什么时候才是个头？ Not anytime soon, apparently. Schick will soon launch its own five-blade razor, and says that prices for it should be 10% to 20% above the Quattro, its four-blade razor that was introduced in 2003. 显然， 这种趋势短期内不会停止。 舒适公司很快将推 出它的五刀片剃须刀， 并称该产品的价格将比其 2003年推出的四刀片剃须刀“创 4 纪”(Quattro)高 10%至 20%。 Gillette, a unit of Procter Gamble, got there first. Its Fusion Power MVP -- an early version of which went on sale in 2006 -- has five spring-mounted blades and battery-powered micropulses to reduce friction so you barely feel the blades. The Gillette Web site has a video of a mecha nic with a gia nt razor blade on a car lift 宝［吉 公司(Procter Gamble)旗下的吉列公司是率先推出五刀片剃须刀的生产商。 吉列的Fusion Power MVP——这款剃须刀的早期型号于 2