乔布斯传第212期:海盗弃船(2)-英语课

时间：2019-02-15 作者：英语课 分类：乔布斯传

英语课

　　When that happened, Jobs got a distressed 1 call from Rich Page, who had been engineering the Big Mac's chip set.

　　事情发生后，乔布斯接到了里奇·佩奇悲愤的控诉电话，佩奇之前一直在设计大Mac的芯片组。
　　It was the latest in a series of conversations that Jobs was having with disgruntled Apple employees urging him to start a new company and rescue them.
　　乔布斯被解除管理职务后，不满的苹果员工曾陆续找他谈话，力劝他创办一家新企业来拯救他们。
　　Plans to do so began to jell over Labor 2 Day weekend, when Jobs spoke 3 to Bud Tribble, the original Macintosh software chief,
　　劳工节的周末，创办新公司的计划开始酝酿。乔布斯同原麦金塔软件主管巴德·特里布尔谈话，
　　and floated the idea of starting a company to build a powerful but personal workstation.
　　并说出了自己的想法——创建一家公司，专门生产强大的个人工作站。
　　He also enlisted 4 two other Macintosh division employees who had been talking about leaving,
　　他还联系到其他两位麦金塔部门员工，这两人一直都在考虑辞职。
　　the engineer George Crow and the controller Susan Barnes.
　　他们是工程师乔治·克罗和总监苏珊·巴恩斯。
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　　That left one key vacancy 5 on the team: a person who could market the new product to universities.
　　新团队还有一个关键的职位空缺：一个可以向高校营销新产品的人。
　　The obvious candidate was Dan'l Lewin, who at Apple had organized a consortium of universities to buy Macintosh computers in bulk.
　　很明显，这一职位的合适人选是丹·卢因，卢因后来组织了一个高校联盟，向多家大学批量出售麦金塔电脑。
　　Besides missing two letters in his first name, Lewin had the chiseled 6 good looks of Clark Kent and a Princetonian's polish.
　　丹·卢因的名字虽然比丹尼尔·卢因少了两个字母，但却拥有克拉克·肯特般轮廓鲜明的外貌、普林斯顿式的优雅。
　　He and Jobs shared a bond: Lewin had written a Princeton thesis on Bob Dylan and charismatic leadership,
　　卢因和乔布斯有着共同的兴趣：卢因的大学毕业论文对鲍勃·迪伦和魅力型领导力进行了研究，
　　and Jobs knew something about both of those topics.
　　而乔布斯对这两个话题都有所了解。
　　Lewin's university consortium had been a godsend to the Macintosh group,
　　卢因的高校联盟对麦金塔团队来说是个天赐良机。
　　but he had become frustrated 7 after Jobs left
　　但是，乔布斯离开后，卢因很泄气，
　　and Bill Campbell had reorganized marketing 8 in a way that reduced the role of direct sales to universities.
　　比尔·坎贝尔也将营销部门进行了重组，降低了高校直销的重要性。

1 distressed

痛苦的

He was too distressed and confused to answer their questions. 他非常苦恼而困惑，无法回答他们的问题。
The news of his death distressed us greatly. 他逝世的消息使我们极为悲痛。

2 labor

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

3 spoke

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

乔布斯传 第212期:海盗弃船(2)

乔布斯传第212期:海盗弃船(2)