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I've always been an amateur astronomer and started building my own telescopes when I was ten.
我一直都是一名天文爱好者，十岁的时候就开始制作自己的望远镜。
After working as an engineer at WAC, it seemed quite natural to start my own telescope company, Hinde Instruments.
从事WAC的工程师工作后，成立自己的望远镜公司Hinde Instruments这个想法似乎水到渠成。
To start with, the company imported telescopes and sold them by mail order, but by nineteen seventy-seven, the company was making its own telescopes.
开始时，公司进口望远镜，并通过邮购进行销售，但是到了1977年，公司自己生产望远镜。
Almost overnight, we took a huge portion of the market,
几乎在一夜之间，我们就掌握了巨大的市场份额。
amateur astronomers being keen to buy our telescopes because of the features they offered. By nineteen eighty-three, sales reached two million dollars.
由于我们望远镜的产品特点，天文爱好者们非常热衷于购买我们的望远镜。到了1983年，销售额达到了2百万美元。
