乔布斯传 第558期:他的iPod里面有什么歌(7)

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Jobs liked Mayer and occasionally had him over for dinner in Palo Alto.

乔布斯很喜欢梅尔，还偶尔请他在帕洛奥图吃晚饭。

When he was twenty-seven, Mayer appeared at the January 2004 Macworld,

梅尔在27岁时参加了2004年1月的Mac world大会，

where Jobs introduced GarageBand, and he became a fixture¹ at the event most years.

当时乔布斯介绍了Garage Band录音软件。

Jobs punched up Mayer' s hit "Gravity."

乔布斯点击了梅尔最重谤的歌曲《地心引力》。

The lyrics² are about a guy filled with love who inexplicably³ dreams of ways to throw it away:

歌词是关于一个充满爱的男人梦想着丢掉地心引力的方法：

"Gravity is working against me, And gravity wants to bring me down."

“地心引力正在和我作对；地心引力要让我倒下。”

Jobs shook his head and commented, "I think he's a really good kid underneath⁴, but he's just been out of control."

乔布斯摇着头评价道：“我觉得他本质上是一个很好的孩子，他只是失控了。”

At the end of the listening session, I asked him a well-worn question: the Beatles or the Stones?

在听歌环节的最后，我问了他一个早就被问滥了的问题：“如果披头士和滚石乐队二选一，你会选哪个？”

"If the vault⁵ was on fire and I could grab only one set of master tapes, I would grab the Beatles," he answered.

他回答：“如果地下室着火了，我只能救出一套碟片，我想我会拿披头士的。

"The hard one would be between the Beatles and Dylan.

但是更难的选择是在披头士和迪伦之间。

Somebody else could have replicated⁶ the Stones. No one could have been Dylan or the Beatles."

有些人复制了滚石，但是没有人能复制迪伦或披头士。”

As he was ruminating⁷ about how fortunate we were to have all of them when we were growing up, his son, then eighteen, came in the room.

当他正在沉思我们是何等幸运、能在成长道路上听到这么棒的音乐时，他18岁的儿子走进了房间。

"Reed doesn't understand," Jobs lamented⁸.

乔布斯感叹道：“里德是不会理解的。”

Or perhaps he did. He was wearing a Joan Baez T-shirt, with the words "Forever Young" on it.

又或许里德能理解一些。他正穿着印有琼·贝兹的T恤衫，上面写着“永远年轻”。

1 fixture   

n.固定设备；预定日期；比赛时间；定期存款

参考例句：

• Lighting fixture must be installed at once.必须立即安装照明设备。
• The cordless kettle may now be a fixture in most kitchens.无绳电热水壶现在可能是多数厨房的固定设备。

2 lyrics   

n.歌词

参考例句：

• music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hart 由罗杰斯和哈特作词作曲
• The book contains lyrics and guitar tablatures for over 100 songs. 这本书有100多首歌的歌词和吉他奏法谱。

3 inexplicably   

adv.无法说明地，难以理解地，令人难以理解的是

参考例句：

• Inexplicably, Mary said she loved John. 真是不可思议，玛丽说她爱约翰。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Inexplicably, she never turned up. 令人不解的是，她从未露面。 来自辞典例句

4 underneath   

adj.在...下面，在...底下；adv.在下面

参考例句：

• Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
• She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣，里面套着一条连衣裙。

5 vault   

n.拱形圆顶，地窖，地下室

参考例句：

• The vault of this cathedral is very high.这座天主教堂的拱顶非常高。
• The old patrician was buried in the family vault.这位老贵族埋在家族的墓地里。

6 replicated   

复制( replicate的过去式和过去分词 )； 重复； 再造； 再生

参考例句：

• Later outplant the seedlings in a replicated permanent test plantation. 以后苗木出圃栽植成重复的永久性试验林。
• The phage has replicated and the donor cells have lysed. 噬菌体已复制和给体细胞已发生裂解。

7 ruminating   

v.沉思( ruminate的现在分词 )；反复考虑；反刍；倒嚼

参考例句：

• He sat there ruminating and picking at the tablecloth. 他坐在那儿沉思，轻轻地抚弄着桌布。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He is ruminating on what had happened the day before. 他在沉思前一天发生的事情。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 lamented   

adj.被哀悼的，令人遗憾的v.（为…）哀悼，痛哭，悲伤( lament的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• her late lamented husband 她那令人怀念的已故的丈夫
• We lamented over our bad luck. 我们为自己的不幸而悲伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》