He never dreamed of giving up carpet tiles.

他从来没有想到要放弃小方地毯。

But boardrooms laid with Interface carpet tiles looked and felt a million dollars.

但是，铺上了界面股份有限公司（Interface Inc.）小方地毯董事会的会议室看上去让人认为相当豪华。

He knew right then that modular soft-surfaced floor coverings (carpet tiles, in other words), could change the world.

那时他就知道这些组合式的表面柔软的地毯（换句话说，小方地毯）能够改变世界。

It was the very same feeling, he said later, as when he had first seen carpet tiles, but orders of magnitude larger.

他后来说道，这就是那种正如当他第一次看到小方地毯时同样的感觉，但是这次的强度要大的多。

When he caught one of his employees eating a pear there, dripping juice onto the grey carpet tiles, he immediately ripped out the stained tile and laid another.

当发现员工吃梨时果汁不小心滴落在灰色地毯上，他会立即换掉有污迹的地毯，铺上一块崭新的。

That meant using renewables rather than fossil fuel; endeavouring to make carpet tiles out of carbohydrate polymers rather than petroleum; and recycling old-carpet sludge into pellets that could be used as backing.

这意味着公司将利用可再生能源，而不是化石燃料；并将努力用碳水化合物而不是石油制造小方地毯；而且还将重新利用旧地毯的沉淀物生产能够用于支持作用的小硬球。

" We'll see companies demonstrating how inorganic materials like nylon, plastic and metal can be reused – for example, carpet tiles that can be dismantled at the end of their life and used as a raw material for new tiles, " he said.

“我们将会看到企业展示尼龙、塑料和金属等无机材料是如何被再利用的——例如，小方地毯可以在使用寿命结束时拆卸，然后用作新地毯的原材料”。