乔布斯传 第198期:五月的关键七天(7)

 　　If Jobs was prepping for conciliation¹, it didn't show in the choice of movie he wanted to see with Murray that night.

　　如果说乔布斯当时真的在准备调和彼此之间的矛盾，那么这个想法并没有在他当晚同默里准备看的电影中体现出来。

　　He picked Patton, the epic² of the never-surrender general.

　　结果乔布斯选了《巴顿将军》，一部永不投降的将军的史诗。

　　But he had lent his copy of the tape to his father, who had once ferried troops for the general,

　　但是，他把《巴顿将军》的录像带借给父亲了，乔布斯的父亲曾为巴顿将军的部队运送过士兵。

　　双语有声读物 乔布斯传

　　so he drove to his childhood home with Murray to retrieve³ it.

　　于是，两人开车到乔布斯的父母家去取录像带。

　　His parents weren't there, and he didn't have a key.

　　但是家里没人，乔布斯也没有钥匙。

　　They walked around the back, checked for unlocked doors or windows, and finally gave up.

　　他们环视这幢房子，看有没有门窗没上锁，最后还是放弃了。

　　The video store didn't have a copy of Patton in stock,

　　音像店里也没有《巴顿将军》，

　　so in the end he had to settle for watching the 1983 film adaptation of Harold Pinter's Betrayal.

　　最后他们不得不勉强看了1983年的电影《危险女人心》。

1 conciliation   

n.调解，调停

参考例句：

• By conciliation,cooperation is established.通过调解，友好合作关系得以确立。
• Their attempts at conciliation had failed and both sides were once again in dispute.他们进行调停的努力失败了，双方再次陷入争吵。

2 epic   

n.史诗，叙事诗；adj.史诗般的，壮丽的

参考例句：

• I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.我放弃了写叙事诗，而写了这个小故事。
• They held a banquet of epic proportions.他们举行了盛大的宴会。

3 retrieve   

vt.重新得到，收回；挽回，补救；检索

参考例句：

• He was determined to retrieve his honor.他决心恢复名誉。
• The men were trying to retrieve weapons left when the army abandoned the island.士兵们正试图找回军队从该岛撤退时留下的武器。