欧美文化博览 天才史蒂夫·乔布斯改变世界(15)

 

But not everybody is a fan of Apple's growing influence on the music world. iTunes almost single-handedly wiped out traditional music stores. Tower records declares bankruptcy². The national music chains and plus. There have been some holdouts to iTunes. I can understand their point. Why is my song worth the same as some, you know, Bavarian folk tune¹, right? It's not. This is pop music. I'm Kid Rock.

但是并不是所有人都对苹果的音乐世界着迷。iTunes几乎独自就摧毁了传统音乐商店。Tower制片宣告破产。全国音乐链其他音乐载体持续低迷。已经有部分歌曲转战到了iTunes。我能理解他们的观点。为什么我的歌就同样有价值,你知道,巴伐利亚民俗歌曲,是吗?不是的。这是流行音乐。我只是一个摇滚男孩。

But the music industry is no match for Steve Jobs. Now defining³ itself as more than any single product, Apple drops the word "computer" from its official corporate⁴ name.

但音乐行业似乎对史蒂夫·乔布斯不太适合。现在的定义让苹果不只成为了任意一种单一产品，苹果一词在它的官方含义中就是代表“计算机”。

You just look at your Apple product, a little bit more than you would look at something else. You don't sit there with you remote control at home and just like ogle⁵ it and sort of just mentally feel it up. But you do with Apple products and you did with the iPod.

看看你的苹果产品,肯定会稍微比别的东西不一样。你无需坐在那里用家里的遥控器控制,只要感觉，感受，感触它即可。只要你用过苹果产品，以后就会坚定不移的一直使用下去。

1 tune   

n.调子；和谐，协调；v.调音，调节，调整

参考例句：

• He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
• The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。

2 bankruptcy   

n.破产；无偿付能力

参考例句：

• You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.如果你想避免破产，就必须节省开支。
• His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.他的商号正面临破产的危险。

3 defining   

规定( define的现在分词 )； 使明确； 精确地解释； 画出…的线条

参考例句：

• You can customise the behavior of the Asynchronous Server and hence re-brand it by defining your own command set for invoking services. 通过定义自己调用服务的命令集，您可以定制自定义异步服务器的行为，通过为调用服务定义自己的命令集从而对它重新标记。
• This point can be put another way in defining poverty. 这一点还能从另一方面来加以说明以佐证贫困的涵义。 来自英汉非文学 - 新闻报道

4 corporate   

adj.共同的，全体的；公司的，企业的

参考例句：

• This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
• His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。

5 ogle   

v.看；送秋波；n.秋波，媚眼

参考例句：

• He likes to ogle at the pretty girls.他爱盯着漂亮的女孩子。
• All she did was hang around ogling the men in the factory.她所做的就只是在工厂里荡来荡去，朝男人抛媚眼。