But whereas it used to take Taiwanese companies several years of trial and error to figure out how to make such products, the gap between them and their European and American competitors is growing ever smaller. When new products appear overseas it now only takes Taiwan two to three years to bring out an equivalent.
只是台灣業者以往可能要費時多年才能摸索清楚，而現在台灣和歐美紡織業的距離越追越小，國外新產品問世不過兩、三年，國內緊跟著就做出來了。