《名人传记》之乔布斯一代创意天才137:组建新公司NeXT

 　　Steve Jobs and John Sculley became so extremely close

　　乔布斯和史考力一直紧密合作

　　that when they got into a confrontation¹

　　所以当他们面对冲突情况

　　and Sculley essentially² pushed aside Steve Jobs

　　而史考力竟将乔布斯推在一旁

　　Steve Jobs felt that it was a tremendous betrayal.

　　令乔布斯感到被背叛和出卖

　　And when it all blew up

　　当事情发生后

　　Sculley took over the board.

　　史考力掌管了整个董事局

　　And there was a meeting

　　我曾经和史考力及乔布斯开会

　　I had with John and Steve, I tried to get them together,

　　我尝试将他们拉在一块

　　and Steve got reelly emotional at the meeting and told him,

　　当时乔布斯很激动地和史考力说

　　"You are not doing your job,

　　你没有在做你应做的事

　　you are not dong what I hired you for,

　　你没有在做我当初请你回来要做的事

　　you are ruining the company,"

　　你是在摧毁公司

　　and Sculley went back to the board

　　史考力回去董事局时

　　and said he's, basically he is unbalanced.

　　他说乔布斯已经失去了平衡

　　By June 1985,

　　1985年6月

　　Jobs was stripped of his operational functions

　　乔布斯的营运职权被剥夺

　　and on September 17th, he resigned.

　　在同年9月17日,他正式辞职

　　When Steve Jobs left

　　当乔布斯在1985年离开

　　Apple Computer in 1985,

　　苹果电脑公司时

　　he considered simply ending his business career

　　他有想过不要再做电脑行业

　　and doing something else entirely³ different,

　　不如试试一些完全不同的东西

　　but ultimately, despite spending the summer

　　但最后经过整个夏天的

　　considering all these other options,

　　考虑之后

　　Steve Jobs decided⁴ he wanted to go back into business.\

　　他还是决定回去电脑行业

　　Jobs recruited

　　乔布斯聘请了的

　　old Apple employees to form

　　苹果电脑公司的旧员工

　　his new company, NeXT

　　组成新公司NeXT

　　He paid a designer $100,000

　　他还付了10万美元给设计师

　　to come up with a new logo.

　　设计了一个新的公司标志

1 confrontation   

n.对抗，对峙，冲突

参考例句：

• We can't risk another confrontation with the union.我们不能冒再次同工会对抗的危险。
• After years of confrontation,they finally have achieved a modus vivendi.在对抗很长时间后，他们最后达成安宁生存的非正式协议。

2 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

3 entirely   

ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
• His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。

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。