早在1917年,林语堂就希望设计出一种人人可用的写作工具。后来,他有了足够的积蓄,就投资在这种打字机的试制上。有一段时间,他每天五六点钟就起床,叼着烟斗,修改草图,研究汉字排列,将键盘弄来弄去,甚至通宵达旦。数年过去了,他到纽约唐人街进行打字机的组装试验,很不理想。万般无奈下,他只 As early as 1917, Lin Yutang had hoped to design a writing tool for everyone. Later, he had enough savings to invest in the prototype of this typewriter. For some time, he got up at five or six o'clock every day, dangling his pipe, modifying the sketches, studying the arrangement of Chinese characters, getting the keyboard away, and even up to the night. A few years later, he went to New York to conduct a typewriter assembly test in Chinatown, which is not ideal. In desperation, he only