IBM sent to Palo Alto a 125-page contract. Jobs tossed it down without reading it. IBM给NeXT发送了一份125页的合同。乔布斯读都没读就扔掉了。 You don't get it, he said as he walked out of the room. 别来这一套。他边说边走

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As would become his standard practice, 乔布斯和媒体打交道已经有了自己的标准做法, Jobs offered to provide exclusive interviews to anointed publications in return for their promising to put the story on the cover. 他给自己钦点

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Steve Wozniak, who was himself now an informal advisor to the company, 史蒂夫沃兹尼亚克当时是公司的非正式顾问, was thrilled that Jobs was coming back. (He forgave easily.) 知道乔布斯要回来他很兴奋。(他是一个轻易

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The day the story came out, Apple stock shot up 11% in heavy trading. 这条消息公布当天,苹果的股票价格就飙升了11%,交易量巨大。 To add to the frivolity, Ellison set up an email address, savapple @us.oracle.com, 更搞笑的是

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Jobs was, in fact, trotted out for Macworld right at the beginning of January, and this reaffirmed his opinion that Amelio was a bozo. 事实上,在1月初的Macworld活动上,乔布斯就做起了形象大使,而这次的经历让他更坚定地

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Ellen Hancock, who had favored choosing Sun's Solaris over NeXT, was on the top of his bozo list, 曾经赞同苹果选择Sun公司Solaris系统而不是NeXT的埃伦汉考克,在乔布斯的笨蛋名单上位列前茅, especially when she contin

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That month Amelio had to face the annual stockholders meeting 当月,阿梅里奥必须面对一年一度的股东大会, and explain why the results for the final quarter of 1996 showed a 30% plummet in sales from the year before. 并解释为什么

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Jobs's pep talk could have been a redeeming finale to Amelio's frightening performance. 乔布斯鼓舞人心的演讲本可以作为结束语,弥补阿梅里奥的可怕表现。 Unfortunately Amelio came back onstage and resumed his ramblings for

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Slouching toward Cupertino 向库比蒂诺蹒跚前进 Does anyone know Steve well enough to call him on this? Amelio asked his staff. 谁跟史蒂夫的关系够好,能给他打个电话?阿梅里奥问他的员工们。 Because his encounter wi

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This did not please Amelio. 这话让阿梅里奥感到很不爽。 Apple's chief technology officer, Ellen Hancock, argued for going with Sun's UNIX-based Solaris operating system, 苹果的首席技术官埃伦汉考克赞成采用Sun公司基于Un

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By the mid-1990s Jobs was finding some pleasure in his new family life and his astonishing triumph in the movie business, 到20世纪90年代中期,乔布斯在他新的家庭生活和在电影产业的惊人成功中找到了一些快乐, but he

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Katzenberg had been impressed with Jobs's focus on keeping costs under control. 卡曾伯格对乔布斯的成本控制意识印象深刻。 Even in the early budgeting process, Steve was very eager to do it as efficiently as possible, he said. 即使是

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After leaving Apple, Smith descended into schizophrenia. 离开苹果后,史密斯逐渐患上了双极躁狂抑郁症和精神分裂症。 He lived in a house down the street from Hertzfeld, and as his disorder progressed he began wandering the st

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Her relationship with her father remained tumultuous throughout her college years. 她跟父亲的关系在她的大学时代一直不太平静。 When she would come home, fights over small things 她就算回家,两人也会为了些鸡毛蒜皮的

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Lesson 2 Work 第二课 工作 August 5 8月5日 Summer Jobs 暑期打工 Read it! 读读看! Jimmy Jobs finds summer jobs for people. 吉米.工作先生为人找寻暑期打工机会。 He usually works with students. 他通常服务学生, H

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Social change 社会的改变 The weaker sex 弱男子 Blue-collar men in rich countries are in trouble. They must learn to adapt 在发达国家的蓝领男性群体正处于困境中,他们必须学会适应。 AT FIRST glance the patriarchy appe

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GWEN IFILL: But, first: If immigration is one of this year's big policy debates, the other is free trade. And when it comes to the future of how the U.S. does business abroad, the two major candidates are not sounding that far apart. Last week, corre

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题目:In many countries, more and more young people are leaving school and unable to find jobs after graduation. What problems do you think youth unemployment will cause to the individual and the society? Give reasons and make some suggestions. 例文

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Internships are often unpaid positions that last for a set amount of time -- a semester, a quarter or the entire summer, for instance. The interview process is the most important part of securing the internship。 实习职位通常都是没有薪水的

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新GRE考试中阅读理解部分的时间把握是关键,如果这部分时间占用太多时间,会影响整个考试的时间,所以新GRE考试中合理把握阅读部分的时间至关重要。如何提高自己的阅读水平呢?很多同学

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