为什么中国人不买烘干机 [美国媒体]

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I see people with ~$1000 phones but no dryers.

我看到人们用1000刀的手机，但是没有烘干机

Due to the lack of dryers the few hotels that offer laundry service charge rates that approach new clothes prices to wash and dry.

由于缺少烘干机，少数提供洗衣服务的酒店所收的费用接近新衣服的价格


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KW Lu know something about China
upxed Aug 2 2016
Dryer is not a necessity in China and the reasons are varied.

 烘干机在中国不是必需品，这个原因是多方面的。

Firstly The northern part of China is always dry all though the year. The washed laundry will dry quickly (less than twelve hours) hanging in the indoor balcony.

 首先，中国北方地区在几乎一整年中长时间干燥。洗完的衣服挂在室内阳台上就可以快速干燥（12个小时之内）

For the southern part there is wet and cold seasons in autumn/winter when the moisture rate is sometimes higher than 80%. There is multi- functional dryer (picture as below) available in the market which can be served as heater and dryer at the same time. The price of this version of dryer is below RMB400.00.
 
中国南方的区域在秋冬两季中潮湿寒冷，湿度有时候超过百分之八十。
这里是市场上可见的多功能的干燥机（如下图所示）。同时可以加热和干燥。
而这款干燥机价格却在人民币四百元之下。

-------------译者：古柯-审核者：龙腾翻译总管------------

Secondly people believe air-dried laundry is the best way of the practice as it reduces energy consumption. Also UV ray of the sunlight helps to kill the bacteria. The clean clothes collected from the cloth line after whole day of sun-bathing have a natural smell of 'sunshine' which the machine-dried clothes will never have. Machine- dry is not good for certain fabrics such as cotton. That's probably one of the reasons that the clothes consumption of US(per person) is much higher than China.

其次，在实践中人们相信，自然风干衣服是最佳方法，这能减少能量消耗，阳光中的紫外线还可以帮助杀死细菌。一天结束后把整条衣架上的衣服收起来可以闻到“阳光的味道”，这是机器烘干的衣服永远不会有的。机器烘干不适合某些衣料，例如棉。这可能是美国（人均）消耗衣服远高于中国的原因。

Thirdly the apartment price in China is skyrocketing in the last decade. People will make full use of every square meter of indoor space. A big ，noisyexpensive machine you seldom use will not be put on the top of the shopping list.

第三， 最近十年中国住房价格暴涨。人们要充分利用屋内每一平米的空间。一台大型，有噪声，昂贵的，还不怎么用得到的机器，不会在购物清单最上面的。

Chinese are known to be thrifty and pragmatic so if you try to persuade them to accept dryer the machine has to be energy- efficient small quiet and multi-functional.

众所周知，中国人勤俭务实。所以如果你试图说服他们接受烘干机，这台机器必须节能高效，小巧，安静且多功能

-------------译者：卡思-审核者：龙腾翻译总管------------

Derek Harkness lived in China
upxed Oct 10

Derek Harkness生活在中国
10月10日更

The question shouldn't be why don't Chinese have driers but rather why Americans do. I'm British and I've never had a drier. Some of my friends have. Some use them a lot some rarely. I never felt the need for them. Air dried clothes and in particular outside dried clothes feel nice to wear and need less ironing. It may take a little longer but you’re not needing to wear the clothes instantly so you can leave them up hanging overnight and it's free.

问题不应该是为什么中国人不买烘干机，而是为什么美国人要买烘干机。我是英国人，我从来不用干燥器。我的一些朋友倒是有。有些人经常使用它们有些则很少用。我从来都不觉得需要他们。空气干燥的衣服，特别是室外干燥的衣服感觉好穿，而且不怎么需要熨烫。这样干燥可能需要一些时间，但你也不需要立即穿衣服，所以你可以把它们挂起来一整夜，而且它是免费的。

Where I live in the north of China the winters are extremely dry and summers hot. Clothes hung on the line dry in a matter of hours. The time saved by putting them in a machine to dry would be negligible.

我住在中国北部，这里冬天非常干燥，夏天炎热。衣服挂在线上几个小时就干了。将它们放在机器中干燥所节省的时间几乎可以忽略不计。

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Americans seem to love having gadgets for everything unnecessarily: garbage disposals instead of a kitchen bin; ride on lawn mowers; golf carts instead of exercise; dish washers; spray cooking oil instead of a bottle; coffee machines instead of a kettle; electric carving knives; electric can openers; electric polish buffers instead of a cloth; nail guns instead of hammers; etc.

美国人似乎喜欢不必要的小玩意：用垃圾处理器代替厨房垃圾桶；使用割草机；乘坐高尔夫球车代替运动；洗碗机；喷雾食用油代替瓶装的；用咖啡机而不用水壶；电切肉刀；电动开罐器；电磨光擦拭布代替洗脸布；钉子枪代替锤子；等等。

In an industrial application these tools make sense and are common world wide but at a domestic level the rest of the world gets by just fine without them.

在工业应用中，这些工具是有意义的，并且在世界范围内是普遍使用的，但是就家庭使用而言，其他国家的人们不用这些东西也照样好好的。

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Philip Lee Guy in Hong Kong
Written Jul 19 2016
This might blow your mind but the majority of the world’s population even in developed countries don’t normally use dryers.

 这可能让你大吃一惊，但是世界上大部分人口，甚至是发达国家，不用烘干机才是正常的。

This is especially true in those countries with arid climates where everything dries quickly anyway. Even in those countries with relatively rainy/humid climates dryers are still quite rare

 这在干旱气候的国家尤其真实，那里任何东西干得都很快。甚至在那些相对多雨/潮湿气候的国家烘干机仍然是十分罕见的。
 
Laundry hanging out to dry outside a typical Japanese apartment

 典型的日本公寓把衣服挂在外面晾干。

They take up space are loud and consume no small amount of electricity. Why bother when the Sun will do it for free and… you know go green?

他们占用空间，声音大，消耗不少电能。为什么还要忍受这些，阳光永远是免费的。还有……你知道环保吗？

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Nell Zhang China is my loving and hating life partner.
Written Jul 19 2016

Nell Zhang 中国是我又爱又恨的生活伙伴。
写作2016年7月19日

Wow my favorite question!

哇这是我最喜欢的问题！

Actually I have asked many of my language exchange partners this question-“why do Americans and Canadians not dry their clothes in the sun?”

实际上，我问了许多我的语言交流伙伴这个问题 - “为什么美国人和加拿大人不会在阳光下干燥他们的衣服？

And they all gave me answers like this - “It’s forbidden in most places here. Because if you hang out your personal colorful all-kinds-of-shapes laundry you are ruining the appearance of the neighborhood. The cozy house the green lawn and beautiful plants puppies the peace. No. No ugly laundries. If you do you will due the property which is highly possible a breach of the house purchase/lease contract.”

他们都给了我这样的答案 - “这里大多数地方禁止这样做。因为如果你挂出你个人那些丰富多彩形状各异的衣物，你会破坏这个社区的景观。舒适的房子，绿色的草坪和美丽的植物以及小狗看起来多和谐。不，拒绝丑陋的衣物。如果你这样做，你很有可能违反了房屋购买/租赁合同。

So the first time I realized wet clothes hanging outside in public can be considered “ugly”/ “bothering”.

所以我第一次意识到在公共场所外面挂着的湿衣服可以被认为是“丑陋”/“扰民”的。

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It was such a “culture shock” to me. Because I took it for granted that colorful all-kinds-of-shapes wet clothes hanging in a balcony/yard indicates “someone lives there”. In China an apartment building/house without a single piece of laundry hanging indicates “nobody really lives there” “nobody bought/leased/really uses the property”. If the neighborhood looks all like that and it’s not newly built it’s highly possible a “ghost town” which you need to think about it twice if it’s a wise investment.

这对我来说是一种“文化冲击”。因为我认为这是理所当然的，丰富多彩各种形状的湿衣服挂在阳台/院子里表示“有人住在那里”。在中国，一件挂在外面的衣服都没有的公寓楼/房子表示“没有人真的住在那里”“没有人买/租/真正使用这个住所”。如果邻里看起来都像这样，而且它不是新建的，那它非常有可能是一个“鬼城”，如果你认为这是一个明智的投资那你需要三思了。

I’m super curious why wet clothes hanging outside would be considered ugly/ bothering in some cultures. What bothers others? Why people enjoy clothes “window shopping” in a mall as an “eyes’ candy” but hate clothes hanging on a balcony/yard as an “eyes’ poison”? Aren’t they similar?

我很好奇为什么湿衣服挂在外面在某些文化里会被认为是丑陋/扰民的。打扰到别人什么了？为什么人们喜欢商场里的衣服，把“橱窗购物”看作“视觉享受”，但讨厌衣服挂在阳台/院子里，将其视为“视觉毒药”？两者不是相似的吗？

-------------译者：古柯-审核者：龙腾翻译总管------------

Interestingly similar “culture gap” happens in domestic China too.

有趣的是类似的“文化鸿沟”在中国国内也有。 

A few years ago Shanghai people were often frowned upon by Chinese from other regions about the “uncivilized laundry drying” including underwear hanging in public and long clothes drying rod extending to public like this.

 几年前，上海人经常被中国其他地区的人指责“晾衣服不文明”包括把内衣挂在外面，像这样把长长的晾衣杆架在公共场所。
 
These days housing conditions in Shanghai improved greatly. Most newly built buildings have enough space to dry clothes. Still you can sometimes find those colorful “flags” upon your head when walking in some historical streets.

这几年上海的住房条件提升巨大。大部分新建的建筑有足够的空间晾干衣服。当你走在历史街区，有时仍然能找到这样多彩的“旗子”挂在你的头上 

I totally don’t feel the “flags” bothering as long as they don’t drip water onto my head. In fact I pretty like watching all such scenes of “real daily life”. But yes many friends of mine prefer to keep “flags” inside the balcony not to extend to “public space”. And I guess some other cultures may go further- they may consider the “public space” as “anywhere one can see.” Hence “hide it well don’t dirty others’ eyes by your personal stuff”.

我完全不觉得这些“旗子”很烦，只要他们别把水滴在我头上。实际上，我很喜欢观察这类“真正的日常生活”的感觉。但是，我的很多朋友更喜欢把“旗子”挂在室内的阳台里，而不是伸到“公共区域”。而我猜在其他的国家文化中会更加极端一点，觉得“公共场合”就是“肉眼可以看到的任何地方”，因此要“藏好自己的衣服，不要脏了别人的眼”。

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I guess it might come from the mindset of privacy which is why we are totally fine to see an underwear hanging on the shelf of the supermarket but we feel bothering when we see someone’s washed underwear hanging on the street. And I guess “privacy” is a relative concept. Some cultures value it much while some cultures don’t. It may be affected by living environment the population density traditions/ social norms even the gap between “collectivism” and “individualism” etc.

我想这可能出于隐私的心态，这就是为什么我们完全可以正常看待一件内衣挂在超市的货架上，但我们当我们看到人洗过的内衣挂在街上我们会感到不自在。我认为“隐私”是一个相对的概念。一些文化看重它，而一些文化则不那么重视。它可能受到生活环境，人口密度，传统/社会规范甚至“集体主义”和“个人主义”之间的差距的影响。

Back to the question. (Pardon me I digressed. )
“Why do Chinese not have dryers?”

回到问题。 （请原谅我离题了。）
“为什么中国人不买烘干机？

Besides the reasons other great answers here already mentioned let me add this-
Most of them don’t feel the need to hide their laundry in a dryer.
(Images from internet)

除了因为这里提到的其他很赞的答案之外，让我加上这一个——
他们中的大多数人不觉得需要把衣服藏在烘干机里。
（图片来自互联网）