《名人传记》之乔布斯一代创意天才138:卖掉苹果的股票

 　　He sold his Apple stock

　　他卖了其苹果股票

　　so Steve Jobs had $100 million.

　　得到1亿美元

　　And he had enough money

　　因为这样他拥有足够的资金

　　that he could spend money until he was satisfied

　　可以用来令到每件事

　　that he was doing everything in the best possible way.

　　都以他所认为的完美方式来进行

　　So this created problerns for

　　也因为这样而令到

　　for NeXT Computer

　　NeXT电脑遇上麻烦

　　because Steve wanted everything to be perfect.

　　因为乔布斯希望所有东西都完美

　　While Jobs was busy starting NeXT,

　　当乔布斯忙于开展NeXT时

　　a computer animation¹ group

　　电影导演乔治卢卡斯旗下的

　　part of film director George Lucas' empire - was for sale.

　　电脑动画公司正在放盘出售

　　So George brought Steve Jobs

　　当时乔治卢卡斯

　　to come in and look at some of this

　　叫乔布斯去看看

　　very early comparatively primitive²,

　　他们制作那些比较原始

　　crude computer animation that they were doing at Lucas.

　　和粗糙的电脑动画

　　And Steve Jobs was blown away

　　这令到乔布斯感到非常震惊

　　In 1986, he bought Pixar

　　1986年,他以1000万美元

　　for ten million dollars.

　　买入了皮克斯动画制作室

　　Like NeXT,

　　和NeXT一样

　　Pixar would sell an expensive, high-end computer,

　　皮克斯售卖昂贵的高端电脑

　　but it wouldn't sell very well.

　　不过销情并不理想

　　To help make money,

　　为了赚钱

　　Pixar's animation team

　　皮克斯的动画制作队伍

　　made television commercials

　　除短片之外

　　in addition to their short films.

　　也会制作电视广告

　　Our small group of animators

　　我们的动画制作小组每年也会

　　was making one small short a year

　　制作一条动画短片

　　that we were primarily showing at Trade shows end conferences.

　　主要在各大展览和会议上播出

　　But, these short films started getting a lot of attention.

　　不过这些短片开始受到各界关注

　　We were nominated for an academy award

　　我们凭着顽皮跳跳灯短片

　　in 1986 for Luxo Jr.

　　在1986年得到奥斯卡金像奖提名

　　In 1988 we won the academy award

　　1988年我们的锡玩具短片更荣获

　　for best short film for Tin Toy.

　　奥斯卡金像奖最佳动画短片大奖

　　The story for babies and toys and how they mixed together.

　　讲述一个婴儿和一件玩具的故事，由你追我逐变成一团和气

1 animation   

n.活泼，兴奋，卡通片／动画片的制作

参考例句：

• They are full of animation as they talked about their childhood.当他们谈及童年的往事时都非常兴奋。
• The animation of China made a great progress.中国的卡通片制作取得很大发展。

2 primitive   

adj.原始的；简单的；n.原(始)人，原始事物

参考例句：

• It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.逃离危险的地方是一种原始本能。
• His book describes the march of the civilization of a primitive society.他的著作描述了一个原始社会的开化过程。