乔布斯传 第361期:向库比蒂诺蹒跚前进(8)

 　　After informing Gassée that Apple was buying NeXT, Amelio had what turned out to be an even more uncomfortable task: telling Bill Gates. 在通知加西苹果要收购NeXT之后，阿梅里奥还有一个更难完成的任务：通知比尔·盖茨。

　　"He went into orbit," Amelio recalled. Gates found it ridiculous, but perhaps not surprising, that Jobs had pulled off this coup¹. “他勃然大怒。”阿梅里奥回忆说。乔布斯把这单生意做得这么漂亮，盖茨觉得很滑稽，但是可能并不惊讶。

　　"Do you really think Steve Jobs has anything there?" Gates asked Amelio. “你真的认为史蒂夫·乔布斯有什么真家伙吗？”盖茨问阿梅里奥，

　　"I know his technology, it's nothing but a warmed-over UNIX, and you'll never be able to make it work on your machines." “我了解他的技术，那只是把Unix又热了热而已，而且你永远无法把它用在你的机器上。”

　　Gates, like Jobs, had a way of working himself up, and he did so now: 盖茨跟乔布斯一样会越说情绪越激动，阿梅里奥回忆说，盖茨这样咆哮了两三分钟。

　　"Don't you understand that Steve doesn't know anything about technology? “难道你不明白乔布斯根本不懂技术吗？

　　He's just a super salesman. I can't believe you're making such a stupid decision... 他只是一个超级销售员。我真无法相信你会作出这么愚蠢的决定……

　　He doesn't know anything about engineering, and 99% of what he says and thinks is wrong.  他根本不懂设计，他说的想的里面99%都是错误的。

　　What the hell are you buying that garbage for?" 你买那堆垃圾到底是为了什么？”

　　Years later, when I raised it with him, Gates did not recall being that upset. 多年以后，当我向盖茨问起这件事，他已经不记得自己有那么沮丧了。

　　The purchase of NeXT, he argued, did not really give Apple a new operating system. 他认为收购NeXT没有真正给苹果带来一个新的操作系统。

　　"Amelio paid a lot for NeXT, and let's be frank, the NeXT OS was never really used." “阿梅里奥为NeXT支付了一大笔钱，咱们坦率说，NeXT OS系统从来就没有真正使用过。”

1 coup   

n.政变；突然而成功的行动

参考例句：

• The monarch was ousted by a military coup.那君主被军事政变者废黜了。
• That government was overthrown in a military coup three years ago.那个政府在3年前的军事政变中被推翻。