and an avid, but very untalented, tennis player.

一个狂热但没有天分的网球运动员
As he tells the story, there was a night on a bus,

按照他讲的故事有一天晚上的公交上
a motor coach to use his words,

用他的话说就是长途公共汽车
bringing him back to New York from Vermont, from Stowe,

把他从佛蒙特州的滑雪胜地斯托带回纽约
and he'd had a rough weekend of skiing and he said,

他这个星期的滑雪并不顺利于是他说
"What would happen if we took the aluminum wafer

"如果我们把制造飞机用的铝片
with which we're building airplanes, and made a ski from it?"

用来制造滑雪板会发生什么呢"
Sure enough he did that, and the skiing industry,

就因为这句话整个滑雪产业
not just the sale of skis but the total size of the skiing market,

不只是滑雪板而是整个滑雪业
was transformed forever

都被从此彻底的改变了
because skiing now became more fun and vastly easier.

因为现在滑雪变得更有趣而且更为容易
Five years later he had the same--he applied

五年后他把同样的想法应用于