乔布斯传 第106期:德士古的小分队(3)

 Jobs even tried to reengage Wozniak.

乔布斯甚至还尝试了让沃兹尼亚克重新入伙。

"I resented the fact that he had not been doing much,

他后来告诉我，“沃兹那时候已经没做出过什么成绩了，这让我很不满。

but then I thought, hell, I wouldn't be here without his brilliance," Jobs later told me.

但我又想，管它呢，要是没有他的聪明才智的话，我也不会有今天的成就。”

But as soon as Jobs was starting to get him interested in the Mac,

但是，就在他刚开始让沃兹对Mac产生兴趣的时候，

Wozniak crashed his new single-engine Beechcraft while attempting a takeoff near Santa Cruz.

沃兹在圣克鲁兹驾驶着他新买的单引擎比奇飞机尝试起飞时，飞机坠毁了。

He barely survived and ended up with partial amnesia¹.

他差点儿丧命，并因此失去了部分记忆。

Jobs spent time at the hospital, but when Wozniak recovered he decided² it was time to take a break from Apple.

乔布斯陪他在医院里度过了一段时间。但当沃兹康复后，他决定是时候离开苹果公司了。

Ten years after dropping out of Berkeley,

在从伯克利退学十年后，

he decided to return there to finally get his degree, enrolling³ under the name of Rocky Raccoon Clark.

他决定重返校园拿到自己的学位，并以洛基·浣熊·克拉克的名字登记入学。

In order to make the project his own, Jobs decided it should no longer be code-named after Raskin's favorite apple.

为了给整个项目打上自己的印记，乔布斯决定项目名称不应该再使用拉斯金最爱的苹果种类了。

In various interviews, Jobs had been referring to computers as a bicycle for the mind;

在各种访谈中，乔布斯一直把电脑比做思想的自行车：

the ability of humans to create a bicycle allowed them to move more efficiently⁴ than even a condor⁵,

人类创造了自行车，从而让自己的移动比秃鹰还要高效；

and likewise the ability to create computers would multiply the efficiency of their minds.

类似的，电脑的发明也将让人们的思维效率大为提髙。

So one day Jobs decreed that henceforth the Macintosh should be known instead as the Bicycle.

于是有一天，乔布斯宣布，从今以后，麦金塔更名为“自行车”。

This did not go over well.

然而这一决定并不受欢迎。

"Burrell and I thought this was the silliest thing we ever heard, and we simply refused to use the new name," recalled Hertzfeld.

“伯勒尔和我认为这是我们听说过的最愚蠢的事情，我们都拒绝使用新名字。”赫茨菲尔德回忆。

Within a month the idea was dropped.

不到一个月时间，这个变更名字的想法就被放弃了。

1 amnesia   

n.健忘症，健忘

参考例句：

• People suffering from amnesia don't forget their general knowledge of objects.患健忘症的人不会忘记关于物体的一些基本知识。
• Chinese medicine experts developed a way to treat amnesia using marine materials.中国医学专家研制出用海洋物质治疗遗忘症的方法。

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

3 enrolling   

v.招收( enrol的现在分词 )；吸收；入学；加入；[亦作enrol]( enroll的现在分词 )；登记，招收，使入伍（或入会、入学等），参加，成为成员；记入名册；卷起，包起

参考例句：

• They lashed out at the university enrolling system. 他们猛烈抨击大学的招生制度。 来自辞典例句
• You're enrolling in a country club, Billy. 你是注册加入乡村俱乐部了，比利。 来自辞典例句

4 efficiently   

adv.高效率地，有能力地

参考例句：

• The worker oils the machine to operate it more efficiently.工人给机器上油以使机器运转更有效。
• Local authorities have to learn to allocate resources efficiently.地方政府必须学会有效地分配资源。

5 condor   

n.秃鹰；秃鹰金币

参考例句：

• The condor soars above the mountain heights.禿鹰翱翔于高山之上。
• A condor prepares to fly in Colombia.一只兀鹰在哥伦比亚准备振翅高飞。