乔布斯传 第637期:50岁的雄狮(9)

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Because Ive was so instinctively¹ nice, he puzzled over why Jobs, whom he deeply liked, behaved as he did.

艾弗天性善良，因此很困惑乔布斯这样一个让他深深喜爱的人，为什么会有这种行为。

One evening, in a San Francisco bar, he leaned forward with an earnest intensity² and tried to analyze³ it:

一天傍晚，在旧金山一间酒吧里，他俯下身来，认真地向我分析了这一点：

He's a very, very sensitive guy.

他是个非常非常敏感的人。

That's one of the things that makes his antisocial behavior, his rudeness, so unconscionable.

这就是他有反社会行为、粗鲁和如此肆无忌惮的原因之一。

I can understand why people who are thick-skinned and unfeeling can be rude, but not sensitive people.

我明白脸皮厚和绝情的人为什么会很扭鲁，但是我不明白敏感的人为什么也会这样。

I once asked him why he gets so mad about stuff. He said, "But I don't stay mad."

有一次我问他，为什么会对一些事情如此生气。他回答说：“但是我没有一直生气。”

He has this very childish ability to get really worked up about something, and it doesn't stay with him at all.

他就是有这种非常孩子气的特点，会为某些事情格外较真儿，但又不会一直这样。

But there are other times, I think honestly, when he's very frustrated⁴, and his way to achieve catharsis is to hurt somebody.

但是说真的，也有另一些时候，他非常沮丧的时候，他的宣泄方式就是去伤害别人。

And I think he feels he has a liberty and a license⁵ to do that.

我觉得，他认为自己有这样做的自由。

The normal rules of social engagement, he feels, don't apply to him.

社交的正常规则并不适用于他。

Because of how very sensitive he is, he knows exactly how to efficiently⁶ and effectively hurt someone. And he does do that.

因为他非常敏感，也清楚地知道如何能够真正地伤害某人。他也碥实会这样做。

Every now and then a wise colleague would pull Jobs aside to try to get him to settle down. Lee Clow was a master.

乔布斯失控时，经常会有一个聪明的同事把他拉到一边，让他平静下来。李·克劳便是个中高手。

"Steve, can I talk to you?" he would quietly say when Jobs had belittled⁷ someone publicly.

“史蒂夫，我能跟你谈谈吗？”他会在乔布斯公开贬低别人时轻声说道。

He would go into Jobs's office and explain how hard everyone was working.

克劳会走进乔布斯的办公室，向他解释大家是如何努力工作的。

"When you humiliate⁸ them, it's more debilitating⁹ than stimulating," he said in one such session.

有一回，克劳说：“你羞辱别人，只会让对方变弱，而起不到激励作用。”

Jobs would apologize and say he understood.

这时，乔布斯就会道歉，说自己明白了。

But then he would lapse¹⁰ again. "It's simply who I am," he would say.

但是之后，他还是老样子。“我就是这样。”他会这样说。

1 instinctively   

adv.本能地

参考例句：

• As he leaned towards her she instinctively recoiled. 他向她靠近，她本能地往后缩。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He knew instinctively where he would find her. 他本能地知道在哪儿能找到她。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 intensity   

n.强烈，剧烈；强度；烈度

参考例句：

• I didn't realize the intensity of people's feelings on this issue.我没有意识到这一问题能引起群情激奋。
• The strike is growing in intensity.罢工日益加剧。

3 analyze   

vt.分析，解析 (=analyse)

参考例句：

• We should analyze the cause and effect of this event.我们应该分析这场事变的因果。
• The teacher tried to analyze the cause of our failure.老师设法分析我们失败的原因。

4 frustrated   

adj.挫败的，失意的，泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的过去式和过去分词 )；挫败；使受挫折；令人沮丧

参考例句：

• It's very easy to get frustrated in this job. 这个工作很容易令人懊恼。
• The bad weather frustrated all our hopes of going out. 恶劣的天气破坏了我们出行的愿望。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 license   

n.执照，许可证，特许；v.许可，特许

参考例句：

• The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
• The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。

6 efficiently   

adv.高效率地，有能力地

参考例句：

• The worker oils the machine to operate it more efficiently.工人给机器上油以使机器运转更有效。
• Local authorities have to learn to allocate resources efficiently.地方政府必须学会有效地分配资源。

7 belittled   

使显得微小，轻视，贬低( belittle的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• She felt her husband constantly belittled her achievements. 她觉得她的丈夫时常贬低她的成就。
• A poor but honest man is not to be belittled. 穷而诚实的人是不该让人小看的。

8 humiliate   

v.使羞辱，使丢脸[同]disgrace

参考例句：

• What right had they to bully and humiliate people like this?凭什么把人欺侮到这个地步呢？
• They pay me empty compliments which only humiliate me.他们虚情假意地恭维我，这只能使我感到羞辱。

9 debilitating   

a.使衰弱的

参考例句：

• The debilitating disease made him too weak to work. 这个令他衰弱的病，使他弱到没有办法工作。
• You may soon leave one debilitating condition or relationship forever. 你即将永远地和这段霉运说拜拜了。

10 lapse   

n.过失，流逝，失效，抛弃信仰，间隔；vi.堕落，停止，失效，流逝；vt.使失效

参考例句：

• The incident was being seen as a serious security lapse.这一事故被看作是一次严重的安全疏忽。
• I had a lapse of memory.我记错了。