How the Band-Aid was invented | Moments of Vision 3 - Jessica Oreck

翻译人员: Tianshu Wang 校对人员: Amy H. Fann

In a Moment of Vision...

这里是“灵光一闪”系列……

It's the 1920s.

上世纪二十年代

Johnson and Johnson is well-established

强生已被广泛接受。

for their production of large, cotton gauze dressings

他们生产的宽棉纱布

that are sterile and sealed against germs,

经过灭菌和密封

a first of its kind.

在当时绝无仅有。

An employee by the name of Earle Dickson

一个叫厄尔·迪克森的员工

is recently married to a young, rather accident-prone woman.

刚娶了个毛手毛脚的年轻妻子。

Her domestic cuts and burns are too minor for the company's large surgical dressings

她做家务时常伤到自己 但这些伤口太小，用不了公司的大纱布。

so Earle, in a moment of vision,

所以厄尔灵光一闪

cuts a small square of the sterile gauze and secures it to her finger

从纱布上剪了一小块

with an adhesive strip.

用胶带固定在妻子的手指上。

Earle is forced to make so many of these bandages for his clumsy wife,

厄尔不得不经常 为妻子制作这样的绷带

he devises a method for a small production of them.

终于想出了一个小型生产线。

In order to keep the adhesive part from sticking together,

为了避免胶带粘在一起

he lines them with a crinoline fabric.

他在上面盖了一层硬衬布。

Johnson and Johnson begins production of Earle's invention.

强生开始生产厄尔的发明。

In a brilliant marketing move,

作为一次出色的营销

they distribute, for free, an unlimited number of Band-Aids

他们给全美国童子军

to all the Boy Scout Troops across America.

免费无限量发放了邦迪创可贴。

It doesn't take long for them to become a household item.

很快，邦迪就成了居家必备。

It is estimated that Johnson and Johnson

据估计，从那时起

has since made more than 100 billion Band-Aids.

强生已经卖出了上千亿个邦迪创可贴。