乔布斯传第233期:NeXT计算机(3)-英语课

时间：2019-02-15 作者：英语课 分类：乔布斯传

英语课

　　Machines and robots were painted and repainted as he compulsively revised his color scheme.

　　由于他强迫症似的不断修改配色方案，机器和机器人被喷涂了一遍又一遍。
　　The walls were museum white, as they had been at the Macintosh factory,
　　墙壁是博物馆式的纯白色，就和麦金塔工厂一样，
　　and there were $20,000 black leather chairs and a custom-made staircase,
　　工厂里还摆放着价值2万美元的黑色皮座椅，修造了一截定制的楼梯，
　　just as in the corporate 1 headquarters.
　　就和NeXT公司总部一样。
　　He insisted that the machinery 2 on the 165-foot assembly line be configured
　　乔布斯坚持重新配置总长165英尺的装配线上的所有机器，
　　to move the circuit boards from right to left as they got built,
　　从而在生产时，可以让电路板从右向左移动，
　　so that the process would look better to visitors who watched from the viewing gallery.
　　这样在有人来参观时，站在观景台上就会看到更漂亮的生产流程。
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　　Empty circuit boards were fed in at one end and twenty minutes later,
　　原始电路板从装配线的一端进入，20分钟后，
　　untouched by humans, came out the other end as completed boards.
　　做好的电路板再从另一端出来，完全无需人工接触。
　　The process followed the Japanese principle known as kanban,
　　这种流程是学习了日本的“看板管理”，
　　in which each machine performs its task only when the next machine is ready to receive another part.
　　只有当负责下一个流程的机器能够处理另一个零件时，负责上一个流程的机器才会开始执行自己的任务。
　　Jobs had not tempered his way of dealing 3 with employees.
　　乔布斯没有缓和自己对待员工的苛刻方式。
　　"He applied 4 charm or public humiliation 5 in a way that in most cases proved to be pretty effective," Tribble recalled.
　　“他对施展魅力和公开羞辱这两种方式的运用，在大多数情况下非常奏效。”特里布尔回忆道。
　　But sometimes it wasn't. One engineer, David Paulsen, put in ninety-hour weeks for the first ten months at NeXT.
　　但有时候也不尽然。工程师戴维·保尔森在NeXT工作的头10个月里，每周工作90个小时。
　　He quit when "Steve walked in one Friday afternoon and told us how unimpressed he was with what we were doing."
　　之后，他辞职不干了，他回忆说，“一个周五下午，乔布斯走进来，跟我们说，他对我们所正在做的东西非常之不屑一顾。”
　　When Business Week asked him why he treated employees so harshly, Jobs said it made the company better.
　　《新闻周刊》采访乔布斯，问他为什么要对员工如此严厉，乔布斯说，这样才会使公司更好。
　　"Part of my responsibility is to be a yardstick 6 of quality.
　　“我的一部分责任就是衡量质量。
　　Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence 7 is expected."
　　有些人不习惯那种追求卓越的环境。”

乔布斯传 第233期:NeXT计算机(3)

乔布斯传第233期:NeXT计算机(3)