乔布斯,英文,笔记2013.2.5

2013.2.5

When it was finished, Fernandez told Wozniak there was someone at Homestead High he should meet. “His name is Steve. He likes to do pranks like you do, and he’s also into building electronics like you are.” It may have been the most significant meeting in a Silicon Valley garage since Hewlett went into Packard’s thirty-two years earlier. “Steve and I just sat on the sidewalk in front of Bill’s house for the longest time, just sharing stories—mostly about pranks we’d pulled, and also what kind of electronic designs we’d done,” Wozniak recalled. “We had so much in common.

Typically, it was really hard for me to explain to people what kind of design stuff I worked on, but Steve got it right away. And I liked him. He was kind of skinny and wiry and full of energy.” Jobs was also impressed. “Woz was the first person I’d met who knew more electronics than I did,” he once said, stretching his own exp ertise. “I liked him right away. I was a little more mature than my years, and he was a little less mature than his, so it evened out. Woz was very bright, but emotionally he was my age.”

∙pull [pul]

n. 拉,拖,拉绳,影响vi. 拔,拉,拖,扳动vt. 拉,拔

∙packard ['pækəd]

n. 帕卡德(姓氏)

∙sidewalk ['saidˌwɔ:k]

n. 人行道=pavement（英）

∙homestead ['həumsted;'həumˌsted]

n. 家园, 田产

∙typically ['tipikli]

adv. 代表性地, 作为特色地

∙skinny ['skini]

adj. 皮状的(体积小的), 皮包骨头的

∙prank[præŋk]

n. 开玩笑, 恶作剧, 戏谑v. 盛装, 装饰, 打扮

∙stretch [stretʃ]

n. 伸展,张开adj. 可伸缩的vt. &vi. 伸展,张开,延伸

∙even ['i:vən]

adj. 平坦的, 偶数的, 相等的adv. 甚至, 恰好, 正当v. 使平坦, 相等

∙emotionally [i'mouʃənli]

adv. 感情上地，冲动地

∙mature [mə'tjuə]

adj. 成熟的, 到期的, 充分发育的, 考虑周到的vt. 使...成熟, 长成vi. 长成, 成熟; 到期

∙wiry ['waiəri;'wairi]

adj. 金属丝的，坚硬的，瘦而结实的

In addition to their interest in computers, they shared a passion for music. “It was an incredible time for music,” Jobs recalled. “It was like living at a time when Beethoven and Mozart were alive. Really. People will look back on it that way. And Woz and I were deeply into it.” In particular, Wozniak turned Jobs on to the glories of Bob Dylan. “We tracked down this guy in Santa Cruz who put out this newsletter on Dylan,” Jobs said. “Dylan taped all of his concerts, and some of the people around him were not scrupulous, because soon there were tapes all around. Bootlegs of everything. And this guy had them all.”

∙Beethoven ['beithəuvn]

贝多芬

∙Mozart ['məutsɑ:t]

n. 莫札特

∙track [træk]

n. 小路, 跑道, 轨道, 踪迹; 惯例, 常规v. 跟踪, 追踪

∙incredible [in'kredəbl]

adj. 难以置信的, 惊人的

∙Cruz