《名人传记》之乔布斯遗失的访谈32:皆大欢喜

 　　And although they could scavenge most of the parts as well,

　　虽然他们也能弄到零件

　　they didn’t have the sort of skills to build them that we had acquired by training ourselves through building them.

　　但他们不具备制作经验和技能

　　So we ended up helping¹ them build most of their computers and it was really taking up all of our time.

　　我们只好替他们做，这事占用了我们所有时间

　　And we thought, you know, if we could make, what’s called printed circuit board,

　　于是我们想到制作印刷电路板

　　which is a piece of fabric² glass with copper³ on both sides that etch to form the wire,

　　就是在镀铜的玻璃纤维板两面腐蚀出铜导线

　　so that you can build a computer, you know, you can build an Apple I in a few hours instead of 40 hours.

　　采用印刷电路板，只要几小时就能做出一台Apple I

　　If we only had one of those, we could sell them to all of our friends for,

　　有了这些，我们能把电路板以成本价卖给朋友

　　you know as much as it cost to make them, make our money back.

　　把钱赚回来这样皆大欢喜

　　And everybody would be happy, we say, we get a life again.

　　我们也可以休息休息

　　So we did that. I sold my Volkswagen bus and Steve sold his calculator,

　　说干就干，我把玩具大众车卖了，Woz卖了计算器

　　we got enough money to pay a friend of us to make the art work to make a printed circuit board.

　　我们凑够了钱，请朋友设计印刷电路板

　　And we made some printed circuit boards, and we sold some to our friends,

　　电路板做出来后，卖给了朋友

　　and I was trying to sell the rest of them so we can get micro bus and calculator back….

　　我想把剩下的也卖了，把玩具车和计算器赎回来

　　And I walked into the first computer store in the world, which was the Byte Shop of a Mountain View,

　　我去了世界上第一家计算机商店，Mountain View的字节商店

　　I think, on El Camino. It metamorphosized within an adult bookstore, but at this point, it was the Byte Shop. And the person I ran into, I think his name was Paul Terrell.

　　那时它藏在一家成人书店里，我见到了老板Paul Terrell

　　He said ”You know, I’ll take 50 of those”, I said “this is great”.

　　Paul说“我预订50套”，我说“太好了。”

　　“ But I want them fully⁴ assembled.”

　　但我要完全组装好的计算机”

1 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

2 fabric   

n.织物，织品，布；构造，结构，组织

参考例句：

• The fabric will spot easily.这种织品很容易玷污。
• I don't like the pattern on the fabric.我不喜欢那块布料上的图案。

3 copper   

n.铜；铜币；铜器；adj.铜(制)的；(紫)铜色的

参考例句：

• The students are asked to prove the purity of copper.要求学生们检验铜的纯度。
• Copper is a good medium for the conduction of heat and electricity.铜是热和电的良导体。

4 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。