Thereby hangs a tale

thereby [,ðɛr'baɪ]

adv. 由此，从而;在那附近;

hangs

v. 悬( hang的过去分词 ); （被）绞死; 贴; 逗留

tale [tel]

n. 传说，传言;（尤指充满惊险的）故事;坏话，谣言;〈古〉计算，总计;

He'll do anything to avoid getting down to math lessons,

他老是设法想逃避数学，

To smoke a cigarette

吸烟

I'm afraid I can't agree with you. That's a good way of giving information, but it's not a good way of persuading people. For one thing, it's boring, and people aren't going to read an ad that looks boring. For another thing, one computer looks very like

恐怕我不能同意你的意见。那是个通报信息的好办法，但并非是使人信服的好办法。一是它很乏味，人们是不会去读一则看起来很乏味的广告的。其次，计算机彼此都很相像。人们不会记住产品的名字的。