在接下来的几星期里,迈克和我跑遍了邻近各家,敲开他们的门问他们是否愿意把用过的牙膏皮攒下来给我们。迷惑不解的大人们微笑着答应了,有的问我们要它做什么,对此我们回答道:“这是商业秘密”。
My mom grew distressed as the weeks wore on. We had selected a site next to her washing machine as the place we would stockpile our raw materials. In a brown cardboard box that one time held catsup bottles, our little pile of used toothpaste tubes began to grow.
几星期过去了,我妈变得心烦起来,因为我们选了一个靠近她洗衣机的地方放置我们的原料。在一个曾用来盛番茄酱的大罐子里,积攒在那儿的用过的牙膏皮正在慢慢变多。
Finally my mom put her foot down. The sight of her neighbors' messy, crumpled used toothpaste tubes had gotten to her. "What are you boys doing?" she asked. "And I don't want to hear again that it's a business secret. Do something with this mess or I'm going to throw it out."
看到邻居们脏乱、卷曲的废牙膏皮都到了她这儿,妈妈最后采取了行动。“你们两个到底想要干什么?”她问,“我不想再听到‘商业秘密’之类的话,赶快处理掉这些东西,否则我就会把它们全扔出去!”
Mike and I pleaded and begged, explaining that we would soon have enough and then we would begin production. We informed her that we were waiting on a couple of neighbors to finish using up their toothpaste so we could have their tubes. Mom granted us a one-week extension.
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