《名人传记》之乔布斯一代创意天才134:开发一项新技术

 　　Steve had this amazing insight¹

　　乔布斯有灵感开发

　　into building a new technology

　　一项新的技术

　　called the Macintosh

　　叫做Macintosh

　　and what he saw at Xerox² Parc

　　他是在帕罗奥图的施乐研究中心

　　which was the mouse and the icons³ on the screen

　　看见滑鼠和屏幕上的指标之后

　　and it was a whole new era.

　　开创一个全新的时代

　　He tried first to bring this

　　他首先尝试将这些新事物透过

　　to people with the Lisa computer

　　利萨电脑介绍给大家

　　but the team he was working

　　但他工作的团队

　　with actually kind of pushed him aside

　　当时没有理会他

　　and then Steve went and be created his own team

　　于是乔布斯另组团队

　　to do the Macintosh computer.

　　开发了Macintosh电脑

　　Steve decided⁴ that when you are sitting at a personal computer

　　乔布斯认为使用个人电脑时

　　it shouldn't make a lot of noise.

　　电脑不应该发出噪声

　　So we're sitting in there, demoed it

　　我们坐在那里示范电脑的操作

　　and there was a bit of a silence

　　当时大家也很静

　　and Steve said "What's that sound"?

　　乔布斯问那些是什么声音

　　We said“What sound"?

　　我们反问什么声音

　　“There's a sound coming out what is that”said Steve.

　　乔布斯说那里有些声音传出，是什么声音

　　“Well it's a fan,that's what cools it down”

　　我们回答是风扇，是用来散热的

　　He said“I don't want a fan in it,I don't want that sound”.

　　他说我不想有把风扇，我不想听到那些声音

　　so it took us six months

　　于是我们用了六个月时间

　　so we delayed the introduction of the Mac

　　因此Macintosh延迟推出了

　　to build it in a way

　　因为让

　　that it woud dissipate⁵ heat without a fan.

　　Macintosh无需使用风扇来散热

　　In the first Macs

　　在第一代的Macintosh

　　if you laid a piece of paper on top of it, eventually it would fly it

　　如果放一张纸在电脑顶部，便会升起

　　because the heat was coming out of the top of it.

　　因为是顶部散热的

　　In 1982,

　　在1982年

　　Apple became the first computer company

　　苹果成为第一个

　　to reach a billion dollars in annual sales.

　　年销售额达到10亿美元的电脑公司

　　But the new Apple III and Lisa computers

　　但全新的苹果第三代和利萨电脑

　　were not selling as well as the Apple II.

　　没有苹果第二代电脑销量那么好

　　Steve Jobs hoped the Macintosh

　　乔布斯希望Macintosh

　　woud be the future of the company.

　　会成为公司的未来

1 insight   

n.洞察力，洞悉，深刻的见解

参考例句：

• Good teachers have insight into the problems of students.好的教师能洞察学生的问题。
• The research will provide direct insight into molecular mechanisms.这项研究将使人能够直接地了解分子的机理。

2 xerox   

n./v.施乐复印机，静电复印

参考例句：

• Xerox and Lucent are two more high-tech companies run by women.施乐和朗讯是另外两家由女性经营的大科技公司。
• You cannot take it home,but you can xerox it.你不能把它带回家，但可以复印。

3 icons   

n.偶像( icon的名词复数 )；（计算机屏幕上表示命令、程序的）符号，图像

参考例句：

• Distinguish important text items in lists with graphic icons. 用图标来区分重要的文本项。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
• Daemonic icons should only be employed persistently if they provide continuous, useful status information. 只有会连续地提供有用状态信息的情况下，后台应用程序才应该一直使用图标。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

4 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

5 dissipate   

vi.消散，消失；vt.使消散，使消失，浪费

参考例句：

• Don't dissipate your efforts.不要浪费你的精力。
• The body must dissipate heat as fast as it produces.人体散发热量必须和产生热量一样快。