New kinds of LED lighting technology are invading retail stores with a dual purpose: saving energy and luring shoppers.

新型LED技术入侵零售商店有双重目的：节省能源和诱惑顾客。

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Maybe then the metaphor “I am a thousand candles lighting the way” helps keep the juiciness of the purpose alive and resonant as it fuels their work.

也许隐喻“我是那一千支照亮路程的蜡烛”能帮他把意图表达得更鲜活，更能让人产生共鸣。

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But the candle is not sad, because it helped the people, after all, lighting, to achieve its purpose, very happy, so candles no regrets!

但是蜡烛并没有难过，因为它毕竟帮助了人们照明，达到了自己的目的，很开心，所以蜡烛无怨无悔！

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The era of LEDs for general-purpose lighting really began last decade, but the technology has been around since the 1960s.

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That is, here is a glaring waste of electric power, fully lighting a business through all its nighttime inactivity, every single night, for no purpose at all except to advertise its presence to almost empty midnight streets.

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