European washing machines, Jobs discovered, used less detergent and less water than their American counterparts, and were easier on the clothes.

乔布斯发现，欧洲产的洗衣机和美国产的同类产品相比，用的洗涤剂和水更少，而且对衣服更柔和。

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On my first trip to Europe, I took nothing more than a small carry-on bag (swapping my wardrobe of clothes for a packet of laundry detergent).

在我第一次的欧洲旅行中，我只带了一个小小的随身包(将我一整橱的衣服挑选后，只留下了一包洗衣粉大小的衣物。)

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First, I put dirty clothes into the pot, and then they put a lot of detergent and laundry detergent, after wet my hard back and forth on a washboard rubbing.

首先，我把脏衣服都放进了盆子里，然后又放了好多的洗衣粉和洗衣液，打湿后我使劲在洗衣板上来回搓动。

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Hindustan Unilever, a large consumer products company, recently launched a laundry detergent called Surf Excel that cleans clothes with considerably less water.

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He and his wife and the hundreds of Dhobis at Sat Rasta, as this place is called, wake every morning at 3:00 a.m. to put clothes and linens into a large basket of water and detergent.

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Clothes washed by her always smelled better than clothes that I myself had washed, in the same machine, using the same detergent.

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