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Graduates of Yale University, I apologize if you have endured this type of prologue before, but I want you to do something for me. Please, take a ood look around you. Look at the classmate on your left. Look at the classmate on your right. Now, consi

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Raskin had one problem: Jobs regarded him as an insufferable theorist or, to use Jobs's own more precise terminology, a shithead who sucks. 拉斯金有一个麻烦。乔布斯认为他是个让人难以忍受的理论家，用乔布斯的原话来说，

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The horns of the cross-trees were sawed off on the other side, so that this old top-mast looked not a little like a gallows. 另一边树上的角看起来被锯断,所以这个看上去有点像绞刑架。 Perhaps I was over sensitive to such impre

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But I stood irresolute; when looking at a clock in the corner, he exclaimed I vum it's Sunday-you won't see that harpooneer to-night; 但是,正当我站在那里犹豫不决的时候,他望望角落里那只钟,喊了起来,我打赌,现在已交礼拜

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Perhaps I was over sensitive to such impressions at the time, but I could not help staring at this gallows with a vague misgiving. 我当时这种想法也许是过于敏感些,可是,我仍不禁心神微感不安地瞪眼望着这只绞架。 A sor

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