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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愛好者，十歲的時候就開始制作自己的望遠鏡。
After working as an engineer at WAC, it seemed quite natural to start my own telescope company, Hinde Instruments.
從事WAC的工程師工作后，成立自己的望遠鏡公司Hinde Instruments這個想法似乎水到渠成。
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.
開始時，公司進口望遠鏡，并通過郵購進行銷售，但是到了1977年，公司自己生產望遠鏡。
Almost overnight, we took a huge portion of the market,
幾乎在一夜之間，我們就掌握了巨大的市場份額。
amateur astronomers being keen to buy our telescopes because of the features they offered. By nineteen eighty-three, sales reached two million dollars.
由于我們望遠鏡的產品特點，天文愛好者們非常熱衷于購買我們的望遠鏡。到了1983年，銷售額達到了2百萬美元。
