异类之不一样的成功启示录 第42期:黄金出生时间

 　　That's the perfect birth date! Gates is the hockey player born on January 1. Gates's best friend of Lakeside was Paul Allen.

　　这是黄金出生时间！盖茨就是出生在1月1日的曲棍球运动员！盖茨在湖边学校最好的朋友便是保罗.艾伦。

　　He also hung out in the computer room with Gates and shared those long evenings at ISI and C-Cubed.

　　他常常同盖茨一起泡在计算机房，与他一起煞过了在ISI和电脑中心的每个通宵。

　　Allen went on to found Microsoft with Bill Gates. Paul Allen: January 21, 1953.

　　艾伦与比尔.盖茨一起创办了微软。保罗.艾伦是什么时候出生的？1953年1月21日。

　　The third-richest man of Microsoft is the one who's been running the company on a day-to-day basis since 2000,

　　微软第三有钱的人是一位自2000年开始，几乎是日复一日，

　　one of the most respected executives in the software world, Steve Ballmer.

　　经营管理公司的人物——软件行业最令人尊敬的管理者，史蒂夫.鲍尔默。

　　Steve Ballmer: March 24, 1956.

　　鲍尔默的出生日期呢？1956年3月24日。

　　Let not forget a man every bit as famous as Gates: Steve Jobs, the cofounder of Apple Computer.

　　此外，我们不能忘记另一位几乎和盖茨齐名的人物：苹果公司创始人之一的史蒂夫.乔布斯。

　　He wasn't from a rich family like Gates, and he didn't go to Michigan like Joy.

　　和盖茨不同，他不是出生于富裕家庭；他也不像乔伊一样，能够进入密歇根大学。

　　But it doesn't take much investigation¹ of his upbringing to realize that he had his Hamburg too.

　　但是，我们不需要耗费多少精力，便能发现他成长过程中也曾经历过的“汉堡之旅”。

　　He grew up in Mountain View, California, just south of San Francisco, which is the absolute epicenter of Silicon² Valley.

　　乔布斯在加利福尼亚州的山景城长大，山景城位于旧金山南部，当时的旧金山绝对是能震动世界的硅谷的“震中”。

　　His neighbourhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett Packard, then as now one of the most important electronics firms in the world.

　　在他生活的周围，有很多在惠普公司工作的工程师，惠普公司现在已经是世界上最有实力的电子公司之一。

　　As a teenager, he prowled the flea³ markets of Mountain View, where electronics hobbyists and tinkerers sold spare parts.

　　在十几岁的时候，乔布斯喜欢逛山景城的跳蚤市场，一些电子爱好者和电气维修工会在那里出售一些零部件。

　　Jobs came of age breathing the air of the very business he would later dominate.

　　乔布斯在这里开始闻到了实实在在的商业气息，后来，他成为这个领域叱咤风云的人物。

　　Here is a paragraph from Accidental Millionaire,

　　下面是《意外的富豪》(Accidental Millionaire) 一书中的一段文章，

　　one of the many Jobs' biographies that gives you a sense of how extraordinary his childhood experiences were.

　　《意外的富豪》是众多乔布斯传记中的一本，你从这里能够看到乔布斯孩童时期一些非同寻常的经历。

　　Jobs attended evening talks by Hewlett Packard scientists.

　　乔布斯经常参与惠普科学家们组织的晚上交流会。

　　The talks were about the latest advances in electronics and Jobs, exercising a style that was a trademark⁴ of his personality,

　　工程师们常常谈论电子学以及工作方面的最新进展，他常常紧追惠普的工程师不放，从他们那里获得额外的信息，这成为他的一贯作风。

　　collared Hewlett Packard engineers, and drew additional information from them.

　　从他们那里获得额外的信息，这成为他的一贯作风。

　　Once he even called Bill Hewlett, one of the company's founders⁵, to request parts.

　　有一次，他甚至向公司创始人之一的比尔.休利特讨要一些零部件。

　　Jobs not only recieved the parts he asked for, he managed to wrangle⁶ a summer job.

　　乔布斯不仅得到了他要求的零部件，并且在夏天还争取到了一份工作，

　　Jobs worked on an assembly line to build computers and was so fascinated that he tried to design his own...

　　乔伊斯在一条电脑装配生产线工作，他被工作弄得神魂颠倒，尝试着设计自己的……

1 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

2 silicon   

n.硅(旧名矽)

参考例句：

• This company pioneered the use of silicon chip.这家公司开创了使用硅片的方法。
• A chip is a piece of silicon about the size of a postage stamp.芯片就是一枚邮票大小的硅片。

3 flea   

n.跳蚤

参考例句：

• I'll put a flea in his ear if he bothers me once more.如果他再来打扰的话，我就要对他不客气了。
• Hunter has an interest in prowling around a flea market.亨特对逛跳蚤市场很感兴趣。

4 trademark   

n.商标；特征；vt.注册的…商标

参考例句：

• The trademark is registered on the book of the Patent Office.该商标已在专利局登记注册。
• The trademark of the pen was changed.这钢笔的商标改了。

5 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

6 wrangle   

vi.争吵

参考例句：

• I don't want to get into a wrangle with the committee.我不想同委员会发生争执。
• The two countries fell out in a bitter wrangle over imports.这两个国家在有关进口问题的激烈争吵中闹翻了。