《名人传记》之乔布斯最后一件事102:一段美好的回忆

 　　Woz and jobs became inseparable friends,

　　沃兹和乔布斯成为了形影不离的伙伴,

　　But their first venture was not a computer.

　　但是他们的第一项冒险举动并不是电脑

　　The pair developed an electronics kit¹

　　这对组合开发了一个电子小工具

　　Mimicking² telephone router codes

　　用模拟电话交换码的方式

　　To make free calls around the world.

　　来拨打全球免费电话.

　　you know, when you make a long distance phone call

　　你知道，当你在拨打长途电话的时候，

　　In the background you hear, "do do do do do"

　　你会听到耳朵里有"嘟嘟嘟嘟嘟"的声音

　　Those are the telephone computers actually signaling each other,

　　那是电话交换机的电脑在向其他电脑发送信号

　　Sending information to each other to set up your call.

　　通过这信号来完成你拨打电话的指令.

　　And there used to be a way to fool

　　所以那会儿有一种方法

　　The entire telephone system into thinking

　　通过欺骗整个电话系统使之认为

　　You were a telephone computer.

　　你是一台电话交换机.

　　You could, you know, call from a pay phone,

　　你可以，你知道吗，从一个付费电话拨打到

　　Go to white plains, new york, take a satellite to europe,

　　White plains,纽约，或者通过卫星拨打到欧洲

　　Take a cable to turkey, um, come back to los angeles,

　　或者通过海底电缆拨打到土耳其，嗯，再拨打回洛杉矶

　　And you'd go around the world 3 or 4 times and call

　　你可以在你家门口附近的付费电话里喊一喊，

　　The payphone next door, shout in the phone,

　　拨打三四次全世界的长途电话号码

　　And be about 30 seconds, it would come out the other phone.

　　然后30秒后，那边就接通了.

　　the pair quickly moved on from phone-jacking for fun

　　这对年轻人很快把他们对于通过电话黑客找乐子的兴趣

　　To creating computers,

　　转移到了建造电脑计算机上，

　　building the prototype of the very first apple.

　　也就是第一台苹果电脑上.

　　It's a fond memory for steve wozniak.

　　对于沃兹来说那是一段美好的回忆.

　　Wozniak: he was always thinking about certain technology,

　　他总是在思考这些技术

　　The early products that got developed, the building parts,

　　这些正在制作的部分或者已经完成的早期产品

　　What those might lead to in our future,

　　将如何引领我们的未来

　　And he was always pushing me as an engineer

　　他一直在敦促我把我变成一个工程师

　　"could you possibly add this someday,

　　"你能在某个时候加入这个(功能)吗?

　　Could you possibly add that someday?"

　　你能在某个时候加入那个(功能)吗?"

　　"yes, yes, yes, I could,"

　　"可以，可以，可以，我能."

　　Thinking, "no. It's way, way off,"

　　其实我心里在想, "不，还早着呢."

　　But eventually we all did.

　　但是最后我们全部做到了.

　　in those early days, woz and jobs took their creation

　　在早期，沃兹和乔布斯带着他们的发明

　　To the homebrew computer club,

　　参加了"个人电脑俱乐部",

　　an early computer club, an early computer users' group in silicon³ valley,

　　一个早期由硅谷电脑用户们自发组建的电脑俱乐部

　　Where it quickly attracted attention from their peers.

　　在那里他们很快引起了其他人的注意

1 kit   

n.用具包，成套工具；随身携带物

参考例句：

• The kit consisted of about twenty cosmetic items.整套工具包括大约20种化妆用品。
• The captain wants to inspect your kit.船长想检查你的行装。

2 mimicking   

v.（尤指为了逗乐而）模仿( mimic的现在分词 )；酷似

参考例句：

• She's always mimicking the teachers. 她总喜欢模仿老师的言谈举止。
• The boy made us all laugh by mimicking the teacher's voice. 这男孩模仿老师的声音，逗得我们大家都笑了。 来自辞典例句

3 silicon   

n.硅(旧名矽)

参考例句：

• This company pioneered the use of silicon chip.这家公司开创了使用硅片的方法。
• A chip is a piece of silicon about the size of a postage stamp.芯片就是一枚邮票大小的硅片。