| 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. |
据英国广播公司报道，一名美国博客作者在云南省会昆明市发现了三家冒牌苹果店，并把该店的图片、店里的员工和周围的场景都发到了她的个人博客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，她写到了自己与员工的对话，发现店里多数员工都确信，他们是为真的苹果公司工作。 |
| Apple has said it has no comment to make on the discovery of the counterfeit shops. |
目前苹果公司未对此事作出评论。 |
| 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，她将这几家店描述为“漂亮的剽窃、极富智慧，是我们见过的最好的假店”。 |
| 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. |
据路透社报道，这名27岁的博主BirdAbroad在她的博客上写到昆明的冒牌苹果店，短短三天之内点击量就近百万。 |
| 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. |
她在博客上邀请读者给她发送世界各地冒牌苹果店照片，还真收到来自哥斯达黎加、加拉斯加和越南等地读者的回信。 |
| "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. |
一位名叫劳拉的读者在回信中说：“你让我意识到，我也曾身在一家冒牌苹果店却一点都不知道。去年我在哥伦比亚首都波哥大一处闹市地段发现一家苹果店，但苹果官方网站显示，哥伦比亚没有专卖店，甚至连授权经销商都没有。” |
| The blog also has a picture of a fake Apple store in Hanoi. |
该博客上还有一张在越南河内的假苹果店照片。 |
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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) |
在中国，苹果公司只在北京和上海有4家官方零售店，在昆明只有13家授权经销商，并没有官方零售店。 |
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