《名人传记》之乔布斯遗失的访谈54:处于瘫痪状态的苹果

 　　So there were competing visions for the company?

　　你们对公司的发展有不同的看法？

　　Oh clearly … well... not so much competing visions for the company. Because I don't think John had a vision for the company.

　　是，也不是，因为John根本没有自己的看法。

　　Well, I guess I'm asking was what was your vision at that time, lost out in sentence?

　　我是想问的是，你当时的愿景是什么？

　　It wasn't an issue of vision, it was an issue of execution.

　　这不是愿景的问题，而是执行的问题

　　In a sense that my belief was that Apple needed much stronger leadership to sort of unite these various factions¹ that we created with divisions.

　　我认为苹果应该有一位强势的领袖，团结各个部门

　　That Macintosh was the future of Apple, that we needed to ram² back expenses dramatically in the Apple II area…

　　Macintosh才是苹果的未来，应该削减Apple II的项目开支

　　that we needed to be spending very heavily in the Macintosh area, err³... things like that.

　　加大对Macintosh投资的力度

　　John's vision was that he should remain the CEO of the company, and anything that would help him do that would be acceptable.

　　John的愿景是不惜一切代价保住他的CEO位置

　　So you know I think that… you know Apple is in a state of paralysis⁴ in the early part of 1985,

　　1985年苹果处在一种瘫痪的状态

　　and I wasn't at that time capable... of running the company as a whole. You know I was 30 years old.

　　我那时才30岁，觉得自己没有能力打理苹果

　　And I don't think I had enough experiences to run a 2 billion dollar company.

　　我担心自己无法管理20亿资产的公司

　　Unfortunately John didn't either.

　　可惜John也没这个能力

　　And so anyway… I … I was told on certain terms that there's no job for me, it's really tragic⁵.

　　总之他们说没有适合我的职位了，太悲剧了

1 factions   

组织中的小派别，派系( faction的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The gens also lives on in the "factions." 氏族此外还继续存在于“factions〔“帮”〕中。 来自英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源
• rival factions within the administration 政府中的对立派别

2 ram   

(random access memory)随机存取存储器

参考例句：

• 512k RAM is recommended and 640k RAM is preferred.推荐配置为512K内存，640K内存则更佳。

3 err   

vi.犯错误，出差错

参考例句：

• He did not err by a hair's breadth in his calculation.他的计算结果一丝不差。
• The arrows err not from their aim.箭无虚发。

4 paralysis   

n.麻痹(症)；瘫痪(症)

参考例句：

• The paralysis affects his right leg and he can only walk with difficulty.他右腿瘫痪步履维艰。
• The paralysis affects his right leg and he can only walk with difficulty.他右腿瘫痪步履维艰。

5 tragic   

adj.悲剧的，悲剧性的，悲惨的

参考例句：

• The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
• Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。