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标题: Eco-Friendly Light Bulb Wins 环保灯泡获大奖 [打印本页]

作者: 李武军    时间: 2011-6-26 16:24     标题: Eco-Friendly Light Bulb Wins 环保灯泡获大奖

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Will Gompertz: Now here is a bright idea - a designer, low-energy light bulb. So now, if you want to illuminate your home inan eco-friendly fashion, you have this curvaceous choice. The designers spent a great deal of time worrying about what might turn people on, and what might turn them off.



Their quest was to marry practicality, something that actually works, with a sense of style and beauty, to create an object of desire. Something that you not only wanted to own, but hopefully also wanted to keep.

Nicolas Roope: And that's really the role of the designer, I think, is to make objects that people really connect with and really cherish, you know. I think that's one of our roles, and obviously in this case this isn't just about prettifying. This is about, you know, obviously, the underlying problem of getting people to adopt this stuff, because obviously that's in everybody's interests.

Will Gompertz: That is if money is not too much of an issue - funky costs. Each one is nearly £20. That's up to twenty times the price of some other low-energy bulbs. It's too early to judge if this product has a dazzling future, but its creators will be reassured to know that at least one major household goods retailer said its customers did not consider light bulbs dull. In fact, to them, design matters.

Will Gompertz, BBC News


作者: 雨落风残    时间: 2011-7-12 13:53

illuminate v  使明亮; 照亮

turn sb on  (使)感兴趣; (使)兴奋

marry v 结合

funky adj 时髦的, 新潮的,独特的

dazzling adj 炫目的 光彩夺目的


Eco-friendly is absolutely good,but you have always consider the cost. Maybe 20 pounds is not something everybody could afford.




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