《名人传记》之乔布斯一代创意天才142:乔布斯推出iTunes

 　　He wanted a one-stop digital music store.

　　他希望有一站式的数码音乐商店

　　What Steve needed to do to launch iTunes,

　　乔布斯推出iTunes

　　was convince the record companies

　　要做的是说服各大唱片公司

　　and the music publishers,

　　和音乐发行商

　　not an easy lot,

　　他们并不是普通的人物

　　to license¹ their music

　　要将他们的音乐

　　to his online store

　　授权给乔布斯的音乐商店

　　so that be could then sell it.

　　然后再向大众销售

　　And one of the great ironies² of Steve Jobs

　　因为乔布斯,我们又要付费

　　being the person who got us to actually pay for music again

　　才可以听音乐

　　is that Steve Jobs had been a pirate himself

　　当中最讽刺的是乔布斯在少年时

　　when he was a teenager.

　　也作过盗版的事

　　Jobs and Woz hacked³ the phone system

　　他和沃兹尼瓦克曾入侵电话系统

　　so they could get long distance phone calls for free.

　　使他们可以免费打长途电话

　　He was one of the few people

　　他是真正取得突破的少数人之一

　　that really broke through

　　他打破了唱片行业高层

　　what ended up being sort of a lot of fear end stubbornness

　　最常见的畏首畏尾

　　on the part of record industry executives.

　　和墨守绳规的做事方式

　　And be was determined⁴ to get

　　他还决心要使到披头四乐队

　　the Beatles to agree to put

　　同意将他们的音乐

　　their music on his catalog.

　　加到苹果的音乐目录中

　　And they had some. .

　　乐队的管理层

　　their management had some crazy idea well,

　　还有很疯狂的想法

　　let Steve Jcbs give us

　　就是叫乔布斯将苹果

　　10% of Apple

　　百分之十的股权给我们

　　and we'll do it,

　　那么我们便会答应

　　because we are going to make this company successful.

　　因我们会让乔布斯他们更成功

　　I remember calling Steve

　　我记得我打电话给乔布斯

　　and reporting in what failed meeting it was.

　　告诉他这个结论时

　　And he just said you know,

　　那次真的谈不拢的

　　just great music,

　　他只回答我披头四的音乐很好

　　but they are just wrong

　　但是你们弄错了

　　like don't worry about it.

　　还说之前谈过的问题算了

　　They're just wrong.

　　总之就弄错了

　　And I thought you know probably

　　我心想只有乔布斯才这么有信心

　　only Steve Jobs would have the confidence to be so certain

　　相信他懂得的东西

　　that be knew better than the Beatles.

　　比披头四乐队还要多

1 license   

n.执照，许可证，特许；v.许可，特许

参考例句：

• The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
• The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。

2 ironies   

n.反语( irony的名词复数 )；冷嘲；具有讽刺意味的事；嘲弄

参考例句：

• It was one of life's little ironies. 那是生活中的一个小小的嘲弄。
• History has many ironies. 历史有许多具有讽刺意味的事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 hacked   

生气

参考例句：

• I hacked the dead branches off. 我把枯树枝砍掉了。
• I'm really hacked off. 我真是很恼火。

4 determined   

adj.坚定的；有决心的

参考例句：

• I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
• He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。