At the end of the year, factory parking lots were empty and bare, as several firms cut back their workweeks. At many of the Chinese companies though, cars could be found here and there, their owners inside the plant, hard at work on their latest project.
年終前的矽谷，空曠而安靜，幾乎所有公司都已停工休假。只有少數建築物前，稀稀疏疏停著幾部汽車；十有九八，車子的主人就是那群充滿創業熱情、猶埋首工作的「老中」。