乔布斯,英文笔记,2013.3.6.docx

2013.3.6Jobs spent a few days in Munich, where he solved the interference problem, but in the process he flummoxed the dark-suited German managers. They complained to Alcorn that he dressed and smelled like a bum and behaved rudely. “I said, Did he solve the problem? And they said, Yeah. I said, If you got any more problems, you just call me, I got more guys just like him! They said, No, no well take care of it next time.” For his part, Jobs was upset that the Germans kept trying to feed him meat and potatoes. “They dont even have a word for vegetarian,” he complained (incorrectly) in a phone call to Alcorn. rudely ru:dli adv. 无礼地, 粗鲁地, 粗陋地 flummox flmks v. 使混乱, 背诵出错 vegetarian veditrin n. 素食者 adj. 素食的 incorrectly inkrektli adv. 不正确地，错误地 interference intfirns n. 冲突,干涉 计算机 于涉 Munich mju:nik n. 慕尼黑德国城市 behave biheiv vt. &vi. 举止,行为,举止端正 bum bm n. 游荡者, 流浪汉, 懒鬼,闹饮,屁股 adj. 没有价值的, 不灵光的, 不合理的 vt. 令人失望, 乞讨 vi. 混日子, 以乞讨为生He had a better time when he took the train to see the distributor in Turin, where the Italian pastas and his hosts camaraderie were more simpatico. “I had a wonderful couple of weeks in Turin, which is this charged-up industrial town,” he recalled. “The distributor took me every night to dinner at this place where there were only eight tables and no menu. Youd just tell them what you wanted, and they made it. One of the tables was on reserve for the chairman of Fiat. It was really super.” He next went to Lugano, Switzerland, where he stayed with Friedlands uncle, and from there took a flight to India. camaraderie k:mr:dri: n. 同志之爱, 友情 host hust n. 军队,大量,主人,主持人,主机 vt. 主持,做东 vi. 聚集 chairman tmn n. 主席, 会长 simpatico simp:tiku adj. 令人喜爱的，和霭可亲的 distributor distribjut n. 经销商, 配电器 Turin tjurin n. 都灵(意大利城市)When he got off the plane in New Delhi, he felt waves of heat rising from the tarmac, even though it was only April. He had been given the name of a hotel, but it was full, so he went to one his taxi driver insisted was good. “Im sure he was getting some baksheesh, because he took me to this complete dive.” Jobs asked the owner whether the water was filtered and foolishly believed the answer. “I got dysentery pretty fast. I was sick, really sick, a really high fever. I dropped from 160 pounds to 120 in about a week.” dysentery disntri n. 痢疾 baksheesh baksheesh dive daiv n. 潜水,跳水 vt. 跳水,俯冲 vi. 把.伸入 tarmac t:mk;t:mk n. 铺地用沥青，柏油碎石地(尤指停机坪) foolishly fu:lili adv. 愚蠢地 filter filt n. 筛选,滤波器,过滤器,滤色镜 vt. &vi. 过滤,渗透 计算机 过滤Once he got healthy enough to move, he decided that he needed to get out of Delhi. So he headed to the town of Haridwar, in western India near the source of the Ganges, which was having a festival known as the Kumbh Mela. More than ten million people poured into a town that usually contained fewer than 100,000 residents. “There were holy men all around. Tents with this teacher and that teacher. There were people riding elephants, you name it. I was there for a few days, but I decided that I needed to get out of there too.” holy huli adj. 神圣的,圣洁的,令人敬仰的 contain kntein vt. 包含,容纳,克制,抑制 vi. 自制 festival festvl adj. 节日的,喜庆的,快乐的 n. 节日,庆祝及祭祀,欢宴 delhi deli n. 德里（印度城市） pour p:, p n. 流出,倾泻,骤雨 vt. &vi. 倒,倾泻,蜂涌而来 resident rezidnt adj. 居住的 n. 居民,旅客 Ganges gndi:z n. 恒河（起源于喜马拉雅山脉的一条河流） mela (=syndrome of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with lactic acidosis) 乳酸中毒性线粒体性脑肌病He went by train and bus to a village near Nainital in the foothills of the Himalayas. That was where Neem Karoli Baba lived, or had lived. By the time Jobs got there, he was no longer alive, at least in the same incarnation. Jobs rented a room with a mattress on the floor from a family who helped him recuperate by feeding him vegetarian meals. “There was a copy there of Autobiography of a Yogi in English that a previous traveler had left, and I read it several times because there was not a lot to do, and I walked around from village to village and recovered from my dysentery.” Among those who were part of the community there was Larry Brilliant, an epidemiologist who was working to eradicate smallpox and who later ran Googles philanthropic arm and the Skoll Foundation. He became Jobss lifelong friend. autobiography :tbaigrfi n. 自传 recuperate rikju:preit v. 恢复,使恢复健康,使恢复精神 incarnation ink:nein n. 赋与肉体, 具人形, 化身 yogi jugi n. 瑜珈修行者，信奉瑜珈者，沉思默想者，神秘莫测的人 mattress mtris n. 床垫 foothill futhl n.山麓小丘 himalayas himleiz n. 喜马拉雅山 previous pri:vjs adj. 在.之前, 先, 前, 以前的 dysentery disntri n. 痢疾 epidemiologist epidi:mildist n. 流行病学家 brilliant briljnt adj. 灿烂的,有才气的,杰出的 larry lri La