乔布斯传 第550期:铃鼓先生(6)

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That feature led to the iPod Shuffle¹.

这个功能引出了iPod Shuffle。

As Rubinstein and Fadell were working on creating a flash player that was small and inexpensive,

当鲁宾斯坦和法德尔努力制造一款体积更小、价格更低的闪存播放器时，

they kept doing things like making the screen tinier.

他们一直在尝试把屏幕的面积缩小之类的事情。

At one point Jobs came in with a crazy suggestion: Get rid of the screen altogether.

有一次，乔布斯提出了一个疯狂的建议：干脆把屏幕去掉吧。

"What?!" Fadell responded.

“什么？！”法德尔没有反应过来。

"Just get rid of it," Jobs insisted.

“去掉屏幕。”乔布斯坚持。

Fadell asked how users would navigate² the songs.

法德尔担心的是用户怎么找歌曲。

Jobs's insight was that you wouldn't need to navigate; the songs would play randomly³.

而乔布斯的观点是他们根本不需要找歌曲，歌曲可以随机播放。

After all, they were songs you had chosen.

毕竟，所有的歌曲都是用户自己挑选的。

All that was needed was a button to skip over a song if you weren't in the mood for it.

他们只需要在碰到不想听的歌曲时按“下一首”跳过去。

"Embrace uncertainty," the ads read.

iPod Shuffle的广告词是：“拥抱不确定性。”

1 shuffle   

n.拖著脚走，洗纸牌；v.拖曳，慢吞吞地走

参考例句：

• I wish you'd remember to shuffle before you deal.我希望在你发牌前记得洗牌。
• Don't shuffle your feet along.别拖着脚步走。

2 navigate   

v.航行，飞行；导航，领航

参考例句：

• He was the first man to navigate the Atlantic by air.他是第一个飞越大西洋的人。
• Such boats can navigate on the Nile.这种船可以在尼罗河上航行。

3 randomly   

adv.随便地，未加计划地

参考例句：

• Within the hot gas chamber, molecules are moving randomly in all directions. 在灼热的气体燃烧室内，分子在各个方向上作无规运动。 来自辞典例句
• Transformed cells are loosely attached, rounded and randomly oriented. 转化细胞则不大贴壁、圆缩并呈杂乱分布。 来自辞典例句