乔布斯传 第710期:谷歌 开放与封闭(1)

Google: Open versus¹ Closed

谷歌：开放与封闭

A few days after he unveiled the iPad in January 2010, Jobs held a "town hall" meeting with employees at Apple's campus.

2010年1月iPad发布后几天，乔布斯在苹果园区举行了员工大会。

Instead of exulting² about their transformative new product, however,

然而，他并没有为这款变革性的新产品欢欣鼓舞，

he went into a rant³ against Google for producing the rival Android operating system.

反而开始痛斥谷歌开发了安卓操作系统。

Jobs was furious that Google had decided⁴ to compete with Apple in the phone business.

乔布斯对谷歌决定进入手机领域与苹果竞争十分愤怒。

"We did not enter the search business," he said. "They entered the phone business.

“我们没有涉足捜索领域，”他说。“他们却进入了手机业务。

Make no mistake. They want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them."

没错，他们想要终结iPhone，我们不会让他们得逞。”

A few minutes later, after the meeting moved on to another topic, Jobs returned to his tirade⁵ to attack Google's famous values slogan.

几分钟后，当会议进入到别的议题时，乔布斯又转回去长篇大论地攻击谷歌的著名价值观口号。

"I want to go back to that other question first and say one more thing. This 'Don't be evil' mantra, it's bullshit."

“我想回到刚才的话题再说一件事。这个‘不作恶’的口号就是扯淡。”

Jobs felt personally betrayed.

乔布斯觉得自己遭到了背叛。

Google's CEO Eric Schmidt had been on the Apple board during the development of the iPhone and iPad,

在iPhone和iPad研发期间，谷歌公司CEO埃里克·施密特是苹果的董事会成员；

and Google's founders⁶, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, had treated him as a mentor⁷. He felt ripped off.

谷歌公司的两位创始人拉里·佩奇和谢尔盖·布林视施密特为良师益友。乔布斯感到被利用了。

Android's touchscreen interface⁸ was adopting more and more of the features -- multi-touch, swiping, a grid⁹ of app icons¹⁰ -- that Apple had created.

安卓的触摸屏界面正在越来越多地采用苹果首创的功能--多点触摸、滑动操作、应用程序图标网格。

1 versus   

prep.以…为对手，对；与…相比之下

参考例句：

• The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
• The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。

2 exulting   

vi. 欢欣鼓舞，狂喜

参考例句：

• He leaned back, exulting at the success of his plan. 他向后一靠，为自己计划成功而得意扬扬。
• Jones was exulting in the consciousness of his integrity. 琼斯意识到自己的忠贞十分高兴。

3 rant   

v.咆哮；怒吼；n.大话；粗野的话

参考例句：

• You can rant and rave at the fine,but you'll still have to pay it.你闹也好，骂也好，罚金还是得交。
• If we rant on the net,the world is our audience.如果我们在网络上大声嚷嚷，全世界都是我们的听众。

4 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

5 tirade   

n.冗长的攻击性演说

参考例句：

• Her tirade provoked a counterblast from her husband.她的长篇大论激起了她丈夫的强烈反对。
• He delivered a long tirade against the government.他发表了反政府的长篇演说。

6 founders   

n.创始人( founder的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• He was one of the founders of the university's medical faculty. 他是该大学医学院的创建人之一。 来自辞典例句
• The founders of our religion made this a cornerstone of morality. 我们宗教的创始人把这看作是道德的基石。 来自辞典例句

7 mentor   

n.指导者，良师益友；v.指导

参考例句：

• He fed on the great ideas of his mentor.他以他导师的伟大思想为支撑。
• He had mentored scores of younger doctors.他指导过许多更年轻的医生。

8 interface   

n.接合部位，分界面；v.(使)互相联系

参考例句：

• My computer has a network interface,which allows me to get to other computers.我的计算机有网络接口可以与其它计算机连在一起。
• This program has perspicuous interface and extensive application. 该程序界面明了，适用范围广。

9 grid   

n.高压输电线路网；地图坐标方格；格栅

参考例句：

• In this application,the carrier is used to encapsulate the grid.在这种情况下，要用载体把格栅密封起来。
• Modern gauges consist of metal foil in the form of a grid.现代应变仪则由网格形式的金属片组成。

10 icons   

n.偶像( icon的名词复数 )；（计算机屏幕上表示命令、程序的）符号，图像

参考例句：

• Distinguish important text items in lists with graphic icons. 用图标来区分重要的文本项。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
• Daemonic icons should only be employed persistently if they provide continuous, useful status information. 只有会连续地提供有用状态信息的情况下，后台应用程序才应该一直使用图标。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓