乔布斯传 第509期:就这个!(3)

 Next it was Phil Schiller's turn. "Can I bring out my idea now?" he asked. 接下来轮到了菲尔·席勒发言：“下面来说说我的点子。”

He left the room and returned with a handful of iPod models, 他走出房间，然后拿来一堆iPod的模型，

all of which had the same device on the front: the soon-to-be-famous trackwheel. 它们的正面都有一个相同的装置，也就是后来著名的转盘追踪设计。

"I had been thinking of how you go through a playlist," he recalled. 他回忆道：“我一直在想怎么浏览播放列表。

"You can't press a button hundreds of times. Wouldn't it be great if you could have a wheel?" 你不可能按几百次按钮。如果有个转盘岂不是很好？”

By turning the wheel with your thumb, you could scroll¹ through songs. 通过大拇指旋转转盘，你可以滚动所有的歌曲。

The longer you kept turning, the faster the scrolling² got, so you could zip through hundreds easily. 而且你转的时间越长，列表下拉的速度就越快，所以你可以很容易地浏览几百首歌。

Jobs shouted, "That's it!" He got Fadell and the engineers working on it. 乔布斯大叫：“就这个！”他让法德尔和工程师们按照这个构思开工。

Once the project was launched, Jobs immersed himself in it daily. 自从项目开始，乔布斯每天都投入其中。

His main demand was "Simplify!" 他最主要的要求就是“简化！”

 

1 scroll   

n.卷轴，纸卷；(石刻上的)漩涡

参考例句：

• As I opened the scroll,a panorama of the Yellow River unfolded.我打开卷轴时，黄河的景象展现在眼前。
• He was presented with a scroll commemorating his achievements.他被授予一幅卷轴，以表彰其所做出的成就。

2 scrolling   

n.卷[滚]动法，上下换行v.（电脑屏幕上）从上到下移动（资料等），卷页( scroll的现在分词 )；（似卷轴般）卷起；（像展开卷轴般地）将文字显示于屏幕

参考例句：

• Another important detail required by auto-scrolling is a time delay. 自动滚屏需要的另一个重要细节是时间延迟。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
• In 2D visualization and drawing applications, vertical and horizontal scrolling are common. 在二维的可视化及绘图应用中，垂直和水平滚动非常普遍。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓