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 Macin

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To Be on Your Own 靠自己 The best thing ever to happen to Steve is when we fired him, told him to get lost, Arthur Rock later said. 对于史蒂夫来说,最好的事情就是我们解雇了他,叫他滚蛋。亚瑟罗克之后说道。 The th

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From Jobs's perspective, he had been honest. 从乔布斯的角度来看,自己是诚实的。 The five were not division managers or members of Sculley's top team. 这5位准备弃船的员工并非部门经理,也不是斯卡利髙层团队的成

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Nevertheless Jobs and Sculley bent to the agency's entreaties and ran the commercial during the Super Bowl. 不过,乔布斯和斯卡利屈从于广吿公司的意愿,在美国橄榄球超级碗大赛中播放该段广告。 They went to the game

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For the time being, Jobs and Sculley were able to convince themselves that their friendship was still strong. 当时,乔布斯和斯卡利相信彼此之间的友谊依然坚固。 They professed their fondness so effusively 他们经常热情洋溢地

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Back to the Future 回到未来 The first great design triumph to come from the Jobs-Ive collaboration was the iMac, 乔布斯和艾弗搭档之后的第一个成功之作就是iMac, a desktop computer aimed at the home consumer market that was int

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Early on, Mike Markkula had taught Jobs to impute -- to understand that people do judge a book by its cover 早些时候,迈克马克库拉就教过乔布斯灌输这一招。要知道,人们会根据封面来评判一本书的好坏, and there

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When Michael Dell was asked at a computer trade show in October 1997 在1997年10月的一次计算机展销会上,迈克尔戴尔被问到 what he would do if he were Steve Jobs and taking over Apple, 如果他是史蒂夫乔布斯并接管了苹果

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For a few more weeks Jobs and the board kept looking for a permanent CEO. 接下来几个星期,乔布斯和董事会一直在寻找一位正式的CEO。 Various names surfaced -- George M. C. Fisher of Kodak, Sam Palmisano at IBM, Ed Zander at Sun

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When the leadership issue was partly resolved by Amelio's ouster, one of Jobs's first phone calls was to Gates. 当阿梅里奥的驱逐者部分地解决了领导权的问题后,乔布斯首先打电话的对象之一就是盖茨。 Jobs recalled:

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The Microsoft Pact 微软契约 The climax of Jobs's August 1997 Macworld appearance was a bombshell announcement, 1997年8月,乔布斯在Macworld大会上演讲的高潮部分,是一个出人意料的公告, one that made the cover of both Ti

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Macworld Boston, August 1997 波士顿Macworld大会 The staff memo announcing the repricing of Apple's stock options was signed Steve and the executive team, 1997年8月员工收到了宣布苹果股票期权重新定价的备忘录,上面是这样签

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As the deadline for completing the iMac drew near, Jobs's legendary temper reappeared in force, 离iMac完工的日子越来越近了,乔布斯那传说中的坏脾气又冒了出来, especially when he was confronting manufacturing issues. 尤其是

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Business 商业报道 Schumpeter Angst for the educated 毕业生的烦恼 A university degree no longer confers financial security 大学学位不再提供经济担保 MILLIONS of school-leavers in the rich world are about to bid a tearful goodbye t

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Listen to the questions and check the theme he is asking about. 1.What do you think about the application of SWAT theory to the staff management? 2.What's your ideal salary to this job? 3.Do you like to work in a team? 4.Do you read in your free time

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Pfizer and AstraZeneca 辉瑞-阿斯利康 A matter of trust 信任问题 British politicians are understating their nation's appeal to drugs firms 英国政客低估了英国对制药企业的吸引 IAN READ, the chief executive of Pfizer, an Americ

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A fully operational Apple computer that company co-founder Steve Jobs sold out of his parents' garage in 1976 for $600 sold for $365,000 at Christie's on Thursday. 1976年的时候,史蒂夫乔布斯在他父母车库里把第一台苹果电脑以6

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I live in a house full of millennials, three of whom are having their first skirmishes with working life. Every day I study them, marvelling at how little their early experiences resemble my own. Sometimes I think it is because they are different. So

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U.S. consumer confidence dropped in January. A private research group, the Conference Board, says its monthly survey of consumer sentiment showed people increasingly think jobs are more difficult to find. The group's closely watched index fell from 6

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Business 商业报道 Legal jobs 法律工作 The price of success 成功的代价 Some American law schools are paying many of their graduates' salaries 一些美国法律院校正在为许多他们的毕业生支付薪水 EACH YEAR when U.S. News,

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