導(dǎo)讀：目前市場上大部分自動鉛筆的材質(zhì)為塑料，耐用性不高，因此浪費了大量資源。本文給大家介紹的這款自動鉛筆就很好地克服了這一難題。

Mechanical pencils are becoming more and more popular， but one Austin mechanical designer wants to make the best one out there.

Andrew Sanderson has created an eye-catching metal mechanical pencil that he says will last a lifetime. He found that he was going through plastic mechanical pencils very quickly at work， and realized that not only is that hurting his wallet but the environment too.

It seems many people have been looking for just such a pencil-Sandersons Kickstarter campaign has raised almost 10 times its goal of $4，000 with 50 days still remaining！ In the past other writing-related inventions have done extremely well on Kickstarter， so this is no surprise.

Sandersons pencil is designed to last forever and is made in America. It wont break like a plastic one-it comes in aluminum（鋁）or brass（黃銅）-and because it is well made people will keep it better and wont want to lose it.

“If you just buy this one and it lasts you much longer， its just better for everything. Better for the environment， better for local manufacturing. You spend more time with it， and it becomes a part of you; its not like the simple one： when its broken， you throw it away，” Sanderson says in the campaign video.

One of the reasons most mechanical pencils are made from plastic is because their inner workings are complicated to make. To make up for the time and cost that goes into making the inside work， the outside is made with a cheap plastic. ?“My design has been directed to cut down the manufacturing costs while still having an extremely high level of quality and good design，” he said.

All of the $40 and $50 early pencils have been bought and will ship out at the end of the month. For $60 you can buy one pencil with a removable eraser.

Vocabulary

mechanical ?adj. 自動的

metal ?adj. ?金屬的

last ?v. 持續(xù)，維持

plastic ?adj. 塑料的

manufacturing ?n. 制造業(yè)

complicated ?adj. 復(fù)雜的

removable eraser 可拆卸的橡皮擦

Compared with the common mechanical pencils， how many advantages does this new type of pencil has ？ Can you list them？

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答案：

1. better for the environment ?2. better for the local manufacturing ?3. better quality