欧美文化博览 天才史蒂夫·乔布斯改变世界(20)

 

The massive power and unprecedented¹ popularity of the iPhone pushes Jobs from visionary to iGenius.

iPhone巨大的成功和前所未有的普及让远见卓识的乔布斯成为了业界公认的天才。

But unfortunately, the man who seems to have a solution for almost everything is increasingly haunted by his most personal challenge.

但是不幸的是,那个对任何事似乎都有一种解决方法的奇才却被自己日益增加个人挑战困扰着。

By now I have a liver of a mid² 20th person who died in a car crash and was generous enough to donate their organs.

现在的我迫切需要一个肝脏，几乎死于车祸的20人都非常大度去捐献他们的器官。

And I wouldn't be here without such generosity³.

而我在这里从来没有这样的慷慨。

So I'm vertical⁴. I'm back at Apple, loving every day of it.

所以我用实际行动回报这些帮助过我的人。我再次回到了苹果，热爱那里的每一天。

It did inspire him.

这确实激励了他。

It did motivate him to work more and faster, create more things and, in fact, his creative output over the last five or six years is probably his greatest, his most prolific⁵ period.

这激励他得更快更多的工作,创造更多的东西,而事实上,在过去5年或6年他的创意可能是他最大的,他最多产的时期。

Running out of time but not drive, Jobs writes his next chapter and it's a pinched term.

时日无多但却游刃有余,乔布斯写下了他的第2章,这是一种没有办法的办法。

1 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

2 mid   

adj.中央的，中间的

参考例句：

• Our mid-term exam is pending.我们就要期中考试了。
• He switched over to teaching in mid-career.他在而立之年转入教学工作。

3 generosity   

n.大度，慷慨，慷慨的行为

参考例句：

• We should match their generosity with our own.我们应该像他们一样慷慨大方。
• We adore them for their generosity.我们钦佩他们的慷慨。

4 vertical   

adj.垂直的，顶点的，纵向的；n.垂直物，垂直的位置

参考例句：

• The northern side of the mountain is almost vertical.这座山的北坡几乎是垂直的。
• Vertical air motions are not measured by this system.垂直气流的运动不用这种系统来测量。

5 prolific   

adj.丰富的，大量的；多产的，富有创造力的

参考例句：

• She is a prolific writer of novels and short stories.她是一位多产的作家，写了很多小说和短篇故事。
• The last few pages of the document are prolific of mistakes.这个文件的最后几页错误很多。