My name is Jack Lester and I'm here to talk about the company I originally founded in nineteen seventy-two, Hinde Instruments.
我叫杰克·莱斯，我来此是想说说我在1972年成立的公司Hinde InstrumentsKDp|Eif[sS||25。
Today, the company, with factories in Nevada and Texas and its headquarters in California, is one of the world's largest manufacturers of telescopes.
这家公司在内华达和德克萨斯州均设有工厂，其总部位于加利福尼亚，如今它是世界最大的望远镜制造商之一TpqX6v]|A|c5y_!w。
Sales have grown at a rate of thirty-six per cent for the last ten years and in two thousand and two, reached one hundred and twenty-six million dollars.
在过去十年中，销售增长率为36%，并于2002年达到了1.26亿美元h8@J#Rdql4|3gmsY(~。
But this hasn't always been the case. In fact, in nineteen ninety-one, the threat of bankruptcy was hanging over the company.
但情况并非一直如此o-95ou^!C~pq。事实上，在1991年，破产的威胁笼罩着公司u@kAq1Fm-q@;。