乔布斯,英文笔记,2013.2.22.docx

2013.2.22Reed CollegeSeventeen years earlier, Jobss parents had made a pledge when they adopted him: He would go to college. So they had worked hard and saved dutifully for his college fund, which was modest but adequate by the time he graduated. But Jobs, becoming ever more willful, did not make it easy. At first he toyed with not going to college at all. “I think I might have headed to New York if I didnt go to college,” he recalled, musing on how different his worldand perhaps all of oursmight have been if he had chosen that path. When his parents pushed him to go to college, he responded in a passive-aggressive way. He did not consider state schools, such as Berkeley, where Woz then was, despite the fact that they were more affordable. Nor did he look at Stanford, just up the road and likely to offer a scholarship. “The kids who went to Stanford, they already knew what they wanted to do,” he said. “They werent really artistic. I wanted something that was more artistic and interesting.” dutifully dju:tifuli;dju:tifli adv. 忠实地, 忠贞地 toy ti n. 玩具,小玩意儿 adj. 供玩耍的,体型小的 vi. 漫不经心地做,戏弄 pledge pled n. 保证,誓言,抵押,抵押品 vt. 保证,誓言,举杯祝.健康 muse mju:z vi. 沉思，冥想 vt. 沉思默想 n. 沉思，（希腊神话）缪斯，指引方向的神，诗歌， fund fnd n. 基金 v. 资助 vt. 为.提供资金 reed ri:d n. 芦苇, 芦笛,簧片 Reed：里德（姓氏） adequate dikwit adj. 足够的, 充足的, 适当的, 能胜任的 affordable f:dbl adj. 支付得起的, 不太昂贵的 consider knsid vt. 考虑, 思考, 认为 passive psiv adj. 被动的,消极的 n. 被动性 state steit n. 州, 国, 情形 adj. 国家的, 州的, 正式的 vt. 说, 陈述, 声明, 规定 artistic :tistik adj. 艺术的 berkeley b:kli n. 伯克利(男子名，美国加州西部城市) aggressive gresiv adj. 侵犯的,攻击性的,有进取心的,强烈的,迅速生长的Instead he insisted on applying only to Reed College, a private liberal arts school in Portland, Oregon, that was one of the most expensive in the nation. He was visiting Woz at Berkeley when his father called to say an acceptance letter had arrived from Reed, and he tried to talk Steve out of going there. So did his mother. It was far more than they could afford, they said. But their son responded with an ultimatum: If he couldnt go to Reed, he wouldnt go anywhere. They relented, as usual. ultimatum ltimeitm n. 最后通牒 liberal librl n. 自由主义者, 宽容大度的人, (Liberal)自由党人 adj. 无偏见的, 慷慨的, 不拘泥的, 宽大的, 开明的 afford f:d vt. 提供,负担得起的(后果,损失等),给予 acceptance kseptns n. 接受（礼物、邀请、建议等），同意，认可 oregon rign n. 俄勒冈(美国州名) portland p:tlnd n. 波特兰(美国城市名) relent rilent v. 变宽厚, 变温和, 动怜悯之心Reed had only one thousand students, half the number at Homestead High. It was known for its free-spirited hippie lifestyle, which combined somewhat uneasily with its rigorous academic standards and core curriculum. Five years earlier Timothy Leary, the guru of psychedelic enlightenment, had sat cross-legged at the Reed College commons while on his League for Spiritual Discovery (LSD) college tour, during which he exhorted his listeners, “Like every great religion of the past we seek to find the divinity within. . . . These ancient goals we define in the metaphor of the presentturn on, tune in, drop out.” Many of Reeds students took all three of those injunctions seriously; the dropout rate during the 1970s was more than one-third. core k: n. 果心,核心,要点 vt. 挖去(水果的)果心 =Congress of Racial Equality 争取种族平等大会 hippie hipi n. 嬉皮, 嬉皮模样的年青人 =hippy Timothy timi n. 梯牧草，猫尾草(牧草之一种) Timothy n. 圣经提摩太 curriculum krikjulm n. 课程，全部课程 curricula(复数) curriculum vitae:履历表 spirited spiritid adj. 精神饱满的, 活泼的, 英勇的 academic kdemik n. 教学人员,学术人员 adj. 学院的,理论的,学术性的 combine kmbain n. 集团,联合收割机 v. 化合,结合,联合 vi. 结合,联合 vt. 使结合,使联合 rigorous rigrs adj. 严厉的,严酷的,严格的,细致的 homestead humsted;humsted n. 家园, 田产 spiritual sprtl adj. 精神的, 心灵的 n. (尤指美国南部黑人的)圣歌 guru guru:;guu: n. 古鲁(指印度教等宗教的宗师或领袖), 领袖, 专家 exhort igz:t v. 劝诫, 忠告 common kmn adj. 共同的, 平常的, 普通的 n. 平民, 普通, 公地, 公园 enlightenment inlaitnmnt n. 启蒙 n.【佛教】 开悟 psychedelic saikidelik adj. 引起幻觉的 n. 迷幻药 spiritual sprtl adj. 精神的, 心灵的 n. (尤指美国南部黑人的)圣歌 guru guru:;guu: n. 古鲁(指印度教等宗教的宗师或领袖), 领袖, 专家 exhort igz:t v. 劝诫, 忠告 common kmn adj. 共同的, 平常的, 普通的 n. 平民, 普通, 公地, 公园 enlightenment inlaitnmnt n. 启蒙 n.【佛教】 开悟 psychedelic saikidelik adj. 引起幻觉的 n. 迷幻药When it came time for Jobs to matriculate in the fall of 1972, his parents drove him up to Portland, but in another small act of rebellion he refused to let them come on campus. In fact he refrained from even saying good-bye or thanks. He recounted the moment later with uncharacteristic regret:Its one of the things in life I really feel ashamed about. I was not very sensitive, and I hurt their feelings. I shouldnt have. They had done so much to make sure I could go there, but I just didnt want them around. I didnt want anyone to know I had parents. I wanted to be like an orphan who had bummed around the country on trains and just arrived out of nowhere, with no roots, no connections, no background. matriculate mtrikjuleit v. 准许入学,录取 regret rigret n. 遗憾, 后悔, 抱歉 v. 为.感到遗憾, 后悔, 惋惜 uncharacteristic adj. 不典型的, 无典型特征的 rebellion ribeljn n. 谋反, 叛乱, 反抗 refrain rifrein n. 重复, 叠句, 副歌 v. 节制, 避免, 克制 recount rikaunt vt. 详述,列举,重新计算 n. 重新计算 portland p:tlnd n. 波特兰(美国城市名) orphan :fn n. 孤儿 adj. 无双亲的,孤儿的 vt. 成孤儿 sensitive sensitiv adj. 敏感的,灵敏的,易受伤害的,感光的,善解人意的 n. 敏感的人 connectio