Apple may claim a patent on its mousetrap, but can it claim to control all methods for catching mice?
苹果可以为它的捕鼠器申请专利，可是难道它能声称控制所有的抓老鼠方法吗？
Perhaps the real lesson of Mr Lutz's career is that it is not just a dash of creativity that big organisations need, but an implacable desire to beat the competition by building a better mousetrap.
也许鲁兹先生职业生涯最切实的经验就是大公司最需要的并不是创意，而是一定要技胜一筹战胜对手的心气。
He baited the mousetrap with cheese.
他在捕鼠器里装上奶酪作为诱饵。
They bait the mousetrap with stale cheese.
他们用变质的乳酪作捕鼠夹的诱饵。
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house!"
老鼠转身去找猪，告诉它：“屋子里有捕鼠器！”
So the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.
于是，老鼠回到屋子里，垂头丧气地，独自面对农民的捕鼠器。
So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.
因此，老鼠垂头丧气地回到了屋子里，独自面对农夫的捕鼠器。
The lady went home with her mousetrap but when she looked in her cupboard she could not find any cheese in it.
这位女士带着鼠夹回到家里，但她没有在碗橱里找到奶酪。
There she bought a mousetrap. The shopkeeper said to her, "Put some cheese in it and you will soon catch that mouse."
当她买了捕鼠器后，店主对她说：“把一些奶酪放在上面，你会很快抓住这只老鼠。”
By now I know a thing or two about this mouse, which is why I feel optimistic that my idea for a homemade mousetrap will work.
到现在为止我对这只老鼠还是有点了解的，这亦是我对自制鼠夹抱乐观态度的原因。
Even if you have an insanely great mousetrap, the world will not beat a path to your door. Everyone's busy doing their own thing.
就算你的超炫产品棒得不得了，全世界的消费者也不会争先恐后去抢购，因为每个人都忙着做自己的事情。
A lady wanted to catch a mouse in her house but she couldn't find any cheese so she cut out a picture of some and put it in a mousetrap.
一位主妇想逮家里的老鼠，刚巧找不到奶酪，于是她剪了张奶酪的照片放在鼠夹里。
But if a new and better mousetrap comes along, why not use it, especially given how poorly the old one performed when we needed it most?
但若有新的且更好的捕鼠器又为什么不用呢？尤其是当我们极其需要而旧的又相当不好使的时候。
You may alter the mousetrap but you are not allowed to change the way the spring and bar function except to reduce the force when it is triggered.
你可以改装老鼠夹，但是不允许改变弹簧和铁杆的运行方式，除非是减小老鼠夹被触发后的弹力。
In practice, the greater your mousetrap is, the harder it will be to get people to embrace it because it will be so different to what they're used to.
事实上，你的新产品愈棒，往往愈难让人接受，因为这跟大家习惯的产品太不一样。
"She was a very generous person and when I was nine she signed 'The Mousetrap' over to me," Pritchard said.
“她是一个十分慷慨的人，当我九岁时她把‘捕鼠器’转签给了我，”普里查德说。
"She was a very generous person and when I was nine she signed 'The Mousetrap' over to me," Pritchard said.
“她是一个十分慷慨的人，当我九岁时她把‘捕鼠器’转签给了我，”普里查德说。
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