| An American blogger has discovered three fake Apple stores operating in Kunming city, Yunnan provincial capital in southwest China, BBC reported. Pictures of the stores, their staff and a description of a stroll around them were posted on the BirdAbroad blog. |
據英國廣播公司報道，一名美國博客作者在云南省會昆明市發現了三家冒牌蘋果店，并把該店的圖片、店里的員工和周圍的場景都發到了她的個人博客BirdAbroad上。 |
| In the article, the blogger writes about conversations with staff, many of whom were convinced that they were employed by the U.S. electronics firm. |
在博客中，她寫到了自己與員工的對話，發現店里多數員工都確信，他們是為真的蘋果公司工作。 |
| Apple has said it has no comment to make on the discovery of the counterfeit shops. |
目前蘋果公司未對此事作出評論。 |
| On her blog, BirdAbroad described the stores as a "beautiful ripoff -- a brilliant one -- the best rip-off store we had ever seen." |
在她的博客里，她將這幾家店描述為“漂亮的剽竊、極富智慧，是我們見過的最好的假店”。 |
| The 27-year-old blogger said her story about the fake store in the southwestern city of Kunming attracted nearly 1 million hits over the past three days, Reuters reported. |
據路透社報道，這名27歲的博主BirdAbroad在她的博客上寫到昆明的冒牌蘋果店，短短三天之內點擊量就近百萬。 |
| The woman invited readers to send their photographs of fake Apple stores worldwide -- and has received responses from places including Costa Rica, Caracas and Vietnam. |
她在博客上邀請讀者給她發送世界各地冒牌蘋果店照片，還真收到來自哥斯達黎加、加拉斯加和越南等地讀者的回信。 |
| "You just made me realize, I, too, have been in a fake Apple Store without knowing it! While I was living in Bogotá, Colombia last year I found an Apple Store in the middle of a very trendy area of the city. But nowhere does it show on the Apple website that there is a store in Colombia, nor did I find any authorized retailers there," wrote a reader named Laura. |
一位名叫勞拉的讀者在回信中說：“你讓我意識到，我也曾身在一家冒牌蘋果店卻一點都不知道。去年我在哥倫比亞首都波哥大一處鬧市地段發現一家蘋果店，但蘋果官方網站顯示，哥倫比亞沒有專賣店，甚至連授權經銷商都沒有。” |
| The blog also has a picture of a fake Apple store in Hanoi. |
該博客上還有一張在越南河內的假蘋果店照片。 |
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In China, Apple has four genuine Apple Stores in Beijing and Shanghai and none in Kunming in Yunnan province. The company has 13 authorized retailers in Kunming.
(China.org.cn July 26, 2011) |
在中國，蘋果公司只在北京和上海有4家官方零售店，在昆明只有13家授權經銷商，并沒有官方零售店。 |
