乔布斯传 第445期:回到未来(3)
英语课
By the next showing Ive had refined the playful model. 在下一次展示之前，艾弗又完善了这个模型。
This time Jobs, with his binary 1 view of the world, raved 2 that he loved it. 这一次，乔布斯带着他那“不是杰作就是狗屎”的评判标准喊着说他喜欢。
He took the foam 3 prototype and began carrying it around the headquarters with him, 他带着泡沫模型在总部到处走，
showing it in confidence to trusted lieutenants 4 and board members. 充满信心地向他信赖的中层和董事会成员们展示。
In its ads Apple was celebrating the glories of being able to think different, 苹果公司一直在广告中宣传自身所做的一切都“非同凡想”。
yet until now nothing had been proposed that was much different from existing computers. 然而直到那时，也没有人提出过什么东西让苹果计算机区别于市面上的其他计算机。
Finally, Jobs had something new. The plastic casing that Ive and Coster proposed was sea-green blue, 这一次，乔布斯终于有了新玩意儿。艾弗和柯斯特提出要把机箱塑料外壳设计成海蓝色，
later named bondi blue after the color of the water at a beach in Australia, 之后这种颜色被命名为“邦迪蓝”，灵感来自澳大利亚的邦迪海滩，
and it was translucent 5 so that you could see through to the inside of the machine. 而且外壳是半透明的，你可以看到机器内部。
"We were trying to convey a sense of the computer being changeable based on your needs, to be like a chameleon," said Ive. “我们想要传递一种感觉，就是计算机能够根据我们的需求而改变，就像变色龙那样。”艾弗说，
"That's why we liked the translucency 6. You could have color but it felt so unstatic. And it came across as cheeky." “这就是我们喜欢半透明的原因。虽然有固定的颜色，却又不呆板，可以一眼看到里面，有种调皮的感觉。”
adj.二，双；二进制的；n.双(体)；联星
- Computers operate using binary numbers.计算机运行运用二进位制。
- Let us try converting the number itself to binary.我们试一试，把这个数本身变成二进制数。
v.胡言乱语( rave的过去式和过去分词 )；愤怒地说；咆哮；痴心地说
- Andrew raved all night in his fever. 安德鲁发烧时整夜地说胡话。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- They raved about her beauty. 他们过分称赞她的美。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
v./n.泡沫，起泡沫
- The glass of beer was mostly foam.这杯啤酒大部分是泡沫。
- The surface of the water is full of foam.水面都是泡沫。
n.陆军中尉( lieutenant的名词复数 )；副职官员；空军；仅低于…官阶的官员
- In the army, lieutenants are subordinate to captains. 在陆军中，中尉是上尉的下级。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Lieutenants now cap at 1.5 from 1. Recon at 1. 中尉现在由1人口增加的1.5人口。侦查小组成员为1人口。 来自互联网
adj.半透明的；透明的
- The building is roofed entirely with translucent corrugated plastic.这座建筑完全用半透明瓦楞塑料封顶。
- A small difference between them will render the composite translucent.微小的差别,也会使复合材料变成半透明。
半透明，半透明物； 半透澈度
- His body seemed to have not only the weakness of a jelly, but its translucency. 他的身体不但像冻胶那么软，而且像冻胶那么半透明。 来自英汉文学
- It also supports fog, color density, translucency, fluorescence, and other special effects. 它也支持雾、色密度、透明度、光以及其他特效。
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