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jhuOm3JlQl]Y。
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ojoWsld#OwM74Iej。
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zJNgP%(G3)80XkUJ。
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h=n1+Vb~M9(t。
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Vn0A|PqIxzk。到了1983年，销售额达到了2百万美元HX6(N+6GQ]LO。