乔布斯传 第534期:放养猫(6)

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Jobs tried hard to seduce¹ Lack.

乔布斯也在努力拉拢拉克。

During one visit to New York, he invited Lack to his penthouse at the Four Seasons hotel.

一次在纽约出差期间，他邀请拉克来他住的四季酒店顶楼的套房。

Jobs had already ordered a breakfast spread -- oatmeal and berries for them both -- and was "beyond solicitous," Lack recalled.

乔布斯还特意为两人订了一份早餐燕麦片和鮮莓，而且“格外殷勤”。

"But Jack² Welch taught me not to fall in love. Morris and Ames could be seduced³.

拉克回忆道：“但是杰克·韦尔奇教我不要‘被迷惑’。莫里斯和艾姆斯就抵挡不住诱惑。

They would say, 'You don't get it, you're supposed to fall in love,' and they did.

他们会说，‘你不懂的。你应该去投怀送抱。’他们也的确这么做了。

So I ended up isolated⁴ in the industry."

这样一来，我就成了孤零零一个人。”

Even after Sony agreed to sell its music in the iTunes Store, the relationship remained contentious⁵.

即使后来索尼同意了在iTunes商店出售音乐，但双方的关系也仍旧充满争议。

Each new round of renewals⁶ or changes would bring a showdown.

每一轮合同续签和条款更改都要经过一番决战。

"With Andy, it was mostly about his big ego," Jobs claimed.

乔布斯说：“和安迪共事，你得忍受他的‘自我’过度膨胀。

"He never really understood the music business, and he could never really deliver. I thought he was sometimes a dick."

他从来都没有真正懂得音乐行业，他也从来都没作出过什么贡献。有时，我甚至觉得他是个侦探。”

When I told him what Jobs said,

当我复述了乔布斯的这番话后，

Lack responded, "I fought for Sony and the music industry, so I can see why he thought I was a dick."

拉克回应道：“我是在为索尼和整个音乐行业争取利益，所以我能理解他为什么觉得我是个侦探。”

Corralling the record labels to go along with the iTunes plan was not enough, however.

不过，仅仅把唱片公司拉拢进iTrnies还不足够。

Many of their artists had carve-outs in their contracts

有很多音乐人在合同中有这样的条款：

that allowed them personally to control the digital distribution of their music

他们可以自己控制数字歌曲的发行，

or prevent their songs from being unbundled from their albums and sold singly.

或者禁止他们的歌曲从专辑中被抽出单独售卖。

So Jobs set about cajoling various top musicians, which he found fun but also a lot harder than he expected.

所以乔布斯又开始拉拢一些顶尖的音乐人，他从中收获了乐趣，同时也发现，这比想象中要困难得多。

1 seduce   

vt.勾引，诱奸，诱惑，引诱

参考例句：

• She has set out to seduce Stephen.她已经开始勾引斯蒂芬了。
• Clever advertising would seduce more people into smoking.巧妙策划的广告会引诱更多的人吸烟。

2 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

3 seduced   

诱奸( seduce的过去式和过去分词 )； 勾引； 诱使堕落； 使入迷

参考例句：

• The promise of huge profits seduced him into parting with his money. 高额利润的许诺诱使他把钱出了手。
• His doctrines have seduced many into error. 他的学说把许多人诱入歧途。

4 isolated   

adj.与世隔绝的

参考例句：

• His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
• Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。

5 contentious   

adj.好辩的，善争吵的

参考例句：

• She was really not of the contentious fighting sort.她委实不是好吵好闹的人。
• Since then they have tended to steer clear of contentious issues.从那时起，他们总想方设法避开有争议的问题。

6 renewals   

重建( renewal的名词复数 )； 更新； 重生； 合同的续订

参考例句：

• Number of circulations excluding renewals. 7th out of 10 libraries. 借阅数目（不包括续借）。在10间图书馆中排行第七。
• Certification Renewals shall be due on July 1 of the renewal year. 资格认证更新在更新年的7月1日生效。