乔布斯传(MP3+中英字幕) 第370期:在幕后彷徨(6)
日期:2018-01-19 10:07

(单词翻译:单击)

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 continued to want to use the kernel of Solaris in the new Apple operating system.
尤其是她仍然想在苹果的新操作系统中采用Solaris的核心技术。
In response to a reporter's question about the role Jobs would play in making that decision, she answered curtly, "None." She was wrong.
当一个记者问她在这一抉择中乔布斯将扮演什么角色时,她草率地回答,“没有角色。”她错了。
Jobs's first move was to make sure that two of his friends from NeXT took over her duties.
乔布斯的第一步动作,就是确保用他从NeXT带来的两个朋友接替了她的职责。
To head software engineering, he tapped his buddy Avie Tevanian.
他指定他的好朋友阿维·泰瓦尼安负责软件工程。

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To run the hardware side, he called on Jon Rubinstein, who had done the same at NeXT back when it had a hardware division.
硬件方面,他找来了乔恩·鲁宾斯坦,当年NeXT还有硬件部门时,鲁宾斯坦担任同样的职务。
Rubinstein was vacationing on the Isle of Skye when Jobs called him.
当乔布斯直接给他打电话时,他正在英国的斯凯岛度假。
"Apple needs some help," he said. "Do you want to come aboard?"
“苹果需要帮助,”乔布斯说,“你想加入吗?”
Rubinstein did. He got back in time to attend Macworld and see Amelio bomb onstage. Things were worse than he expected.
鲁宾斯坦的确很想。他及时赶回来参加Macworld大会,也看到了阿梅里奥在台上出丑。形势比他预想的还糟。
He and Tevanian would exchange glances at meetings as if they had stumbled into an insane asylum,
他和泰瓦尼安常常在会议中交换眼神,感觉仿佛是误入了精神病院,
with people making deluded assertions while Amelio sat at the end of the table in a seeming stupor.
大家都在说着疯话,而阿梅里奥坐在桌子的尽头,一副神志不清的样子。

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重点单词
  • stuporn. 昏迷,麻木,不省人事
  • kerneln. 核心,中心,精髓 [计算机] 核心
  • responsen. 回答,响应,反应,答复 n. [宗]答复语,
  • decisionn. 决定,决策
  • onstageadj. 台上的;台上演出的 adv. 上台;上场
  • asylumn. 收容所,避难所,庇护,精神病院
  • exchangen. 交换,兑换,交易所 v. 交换,兑换,交易