乔布斯传 第313期:安家(2)（在线收听）

 　　The house was not the minimalist and modernist style Jobs would have designed if he had built a home from scratch. 如果这处房子是乔布斯自己从头设计的，肯定不会设计成这样，这不是他喜欢的那种极简主义和现代主义风格。

　　Nor was it a large or distinctive mansion that would make people stop and take notice as they drove down his street in Palo Alto. 房子也不大，不显眼，不是那种会让人路过时驻足关注的建筑。
　　It was built in the 1930s by a local designer named Carr Jones,  它建于20世纪30年代，是一个当地设计师卡尔·琼斯的作品，
　　who specialized in carefully crafted homes in the "storybook style" of English or French country cottages.  他的专长是精心打造“故事书风格”的英式或法式乡村小屋。
　　The two-story house was made of red brick, with exposed wood beams and a shingle roof with curved lines;  这是座两层的红砖房，木梁露在外面，屋顶铺着小圆石头，拼成曲线的图案，
　　it evoked a rambling Cotswold cottage, or perhaps a home where a well-to-do Hobbit might have lived.  让人想起科茨沃尔德的农舍，或者是一个殷实的霍比特人的家。
　　The one Californian touch was a mission-style courtyard framed by the wings of the house.  能看出加利福尼亚风格的一点，是房子的两翼围成一个传教士风格的庭院。
　　The two-story vaulted-ceiling living room was informal, with a floor of tile and terra- cotta.  两层的穹顶起居室并非中规中矩，地上铺着瓷砖。
　　At one end was a large triangular window leading up to the peak of the ceiling;  一头是一个大大的三角形窗户，直通天花板的顶部；
　　it had stained glass when Jobs bought it, as if it were a chapel, but he replaced it with clear glass. 乔布斯买下这幢房子时，窗子是彩绘玻璃的，像教堂一样，后来换成了透明玻璃。
　　The other renovation he and Powell made was to expand the kitchen 他和鲍威尔作的另一个改动，就是扩建了厨房，
　　to include a wood-burning pizza oven and room for a long wooden table that would become the family's primary gathering place. 增加了一个烧木柴的比萨炉，以及一个新房间，可以放下一张长长的木餐桌，成为这个家庭主要的聚集地。
　　It was supposed to be a four-month renovation, but it took sixteen months because Jobs kept redoing the design. 翻新工作计划在44个月内完成，结果用了16个月，因为乔布斯不停地修改设计。
　　They also bought the small house behind them and razed it to make a backyard,  他们把后面的小房子也买下来拆掉，做出一个后院。
　　which Powell turned into a beautiful natural garden filled with a profusion of seasonal flowers along with vegetables and herbs. 鲍威尔把它变成了一个美丽的植物园，满是各种季节的花卉蔬菜和香草。
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