《名人传记》之乔布斯一代创意天才142:乔布斯推出iTunes-英语课

时间：2018-12-27 作者：英语课 分类：名人传记

英语课

　　He wanted a one-stop digital music store.

　　他希望有一站式的数码音乐商店
　　What Steve needed to do to launch iTunes,
　　乔布斯推出iTunes
　　was convince the record companies
　　要做的是说服各大唱片公司
　　and the music publishers,
　　和音乐发行商
　　not an easy lot,
　　他们并不是普通的人物
　　to license 1 their music
　　要将他们的音乐
　　to his online store
　　授权给乔布斯的音乐商店
　　so that be could then sell it.
　　然后再向大众销售
　　And one of the great ironies 2 of Steve Jobs
　　因为乔布斯,我们又要付费
　　being the person who got us to actually pay for music again
　　才可以听音乐
　　is that Steve Jobs had been a pirate himself
　　当中最讽刺的是乔布斯在少年时
　　when he was a teenager.
　　也作过盗版的事
　　Jobs and Woz hacked 3 the phone system
　　他和沃兹尼瓦克曾入侵电话系统
　　so they could get long distance phone calls for free.
　　使他们可以免费打长途电话
　　He was one of the few people
　　他是真正取得突破的少数人之一
　　that really broke through
　　他打破了唱片行业高层
　　what ended up being sort of a lot of fear end stubbornness
　　最常见的畏首畏尾
　　on the part of record industry executives.
　　和墨守绳规的做事方式
　　And be was determined 4 to get
　　他还决心要使到披头四乐队
　　the Beatles to agree to put
　　同意将他们的音乐
　　their music on his catalog.
　　加到苹果的音乐目录中
　　And they had some. .
　　乐队的管理层
　　their management had some crazy idea well,
　　还有很疯狂的想法
　　let Steve Jcbs give us
　　就是叫乔布斯将苹果
　　10% of Apple
　　百分之十的股权给我们
　　and we'll do it,
　　那么我们便会答应
　　because we are going to make this company successful.
　　因我们会让乔布斯他们更成功
　　I remember calling Steve
　　我记得我打电话给乔布斯
　　and reporting in what failed meeting it was.
　　告诉他这个结论时
　　And he just said you know,
　　那次真的谈不拢的
　　just great music,
　　他只回答我披头四的音乐很好
　　but they are just wrong
　　但是你们弄错了
　　like don't worry about it.
　　还说之前谈过的问题算了
　　They're just wrong.
　　总之就弄错了
　　And I thought you know probably
　　我心想只有乔布斯才这么有信心
　　only Steve Jobs would have the confidence to be so certain
　　相信他懂得的东西
　　that be knew better than the Beatles.
　　比披头四乐队还要多