《名人传记》之乔布斯最后一件事101:分享共同的爱好

 　　in about eighth grade, halfway¹ through,

　　大约在八年级中间的某个时候,

　　this new guy came into the school,

　　这个新来的家伙成为了我的同学,

　　who was steve jobs, and we were both introverted,

　　他就是乔布斯, 那时我们都很内向,

　　intellectual, kind of socially inept²,

　　聪明, 善于交际,

　　and we gravitated towards each other.

　　我们彼此很合得来.

　　the two boys shared the same hobby.

　　这两个男孩分享着共同的爱好.

　　we started taking long walks and talking

　　我们那时开始散步并且交谈了很多

　　about the meaning of life and what is this all about,

　　关于人生和生命的意义,

　　and after a while we started doing

　　然后过了一段时间，他行动了

　　in addition to walking and talking

　　伴随着越来越多的散步和交谈

　　doing electronics³ projects together.

　　以及一起做一些电子方面的小项目.

　　fernandez also knew another electronics geek,

　　费尔南德斯认识了另外一个电子极客,

　　his neighbors' son steve wozniak,

　　他邻居的儿子，史蒂夫 沃兹亚克,

　　universally known as woz.

　　通常我们都叫他沃兹.

　　so one day, steve jobs bicycled over to hang out with me

　　有一天，史蒂夫乔布斯骑车过来找我

　　and do electronics projects in the garage,

　　在车库里做一些电子项目,

　　and out in front was wozniak washing his car.

　　外面是沃兹亚克正在洗他的车.

　　so I thought to myself, "ok.

　　因此我想当然的, "ok.

　　this steve is an electronics buddy⁴, he's an electronics buddy.

　　史蒂夫是一个电子学爱好者, 而他也是一个电子学爱好者.

　　they'd probably like to meet each other."

　　他们应该很乐意见到对方."

　　fernandez had no idea at the time

　　费尔南德斯当时肯定不会知道，

　　that the meeting between his two friends

　　他的两个朋友的相识

　　would change our world.

　　将会改变我们的世界

　　jobs and woz were soon to start a business together.

　　乔布斯和沃兹很快共同开启了一向事业

　　its name was apple.

　　它的名字叫做 苹果.

　　if woz and jobs had never met,

　　如果沃兹与乔布斯两人没有相识,

　　there never would have been an apple computer.

　　也许还是会有苹果电脑.

　　there would have been computers,

　　也许还是会有电脑,

　　and there would have been personal computers,

　　也许还是会有个人电脑,

　　but we probably wouldn't have the kind of wonderful empowering things

　　但是我们还是好奇人们陷入这样一种设想

　　that people fall into if woz and jobs hadn't met.

　　设想假如 沃兹与乔布斯没有相遇，会发生什么.

　　this neighborhood we grew up in had

　　在我们长大的这一片地方

　　a lot of lockheed engineers on it,

　　居住着非常多精英工程师,

　　and I would go up and down the street

　　我可以满街跑，

　　To the various dads on the street

　　从那些"爸爸"们那里获得

　　And get mentored⁵ in electronics,

　　电子学方面的经验,

　　And steve wozniak's father was

　　史蒂夫沃兹的老爸，

　　one of the people Who mentored me.

　　就是那些教导过我的人其中之一.

　　As jobs and I were walking over,

　　乔布斯和我走过来,

　　I noticed woz out washing his car,

　　我见到沃兹正在外面洗车,

　　And I said, "hey, woz. Um, come over and meet steve."

　　然后我说，"嘿，沃兹，过来认识一下，这是史蒂夫(乔布斯)

　　So, "steve, meet steve."

　　然后，"史蒂夫(沃兹)，这是史蒂夫(乔布斯)"。

　　And this is where it happened,

　　基本上,

　　Basically right here.

　　当时就是发生在这里.

1 halfway   

adj.中途的，不彻底的，部分的；adv.半路地，在中途，在半途

参考例句：

• We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路，天就黑了。
• In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上，最忌讳的是有始无终。

2 inept   

adj.不恰当的，荒谬的，拙劣的

参考例句：

• Whan an inept remark to make on such a formal occasion.在如此正式的场合，怎么说这样不恰当的话。
• He's quite inept at tennis.他打网球太笨。

3 electronics   

n.电子器件，电子学，电子技术

参考例句：

• About 45000 people worked in electronics in Scotland.苏格兰约有4.5万人在电子行业工作。
• He wants to brush up his knowledge of electronics.他想温习他的电子学知识。

4 buddy   

n.（美口）密友，伙伴

参考例句：

• Calm down,buddy.What's the trouble?压压气，老兄。有什么麻烦吗？
• Get out of my way,buddy!别挡道了，你这家伙！

5 mentored   

v.（无经验之人的）有经验可信赖的顾问( mentor的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• They had a fantastic dean who really mentored a lot of people. 那儿的教务长非常出色，的确为许多人提供了指导。 来自互联网
• The famous professor mentored him during his years in graduate school. 那位著名的教授在他读研究生期间指导他。 来自互联网