乔布斯,英文笔记,2013.3.1.docx

2013.3.1Monks and disciples from the Hare Krishna temple would come and prepare vegetarian feasts redolent of cumin, coriander, and turmeric. “Steve would be starving when he arrived, and he would stuff himself,” Holmes recalled. “Then he would go and purge. For years I thought he was bulimic. It was very upsetting, because we had gone to all that trouble of creating these feasts, and he couldnt hold it down.” coriander krind n. 植胡荽 bulimic bjulimi n. 易饥症，贪食症 upset pset adj. 心烦的 vt. 加厚,推翻,扰乱 vi. 推翻 n. 推翻,混乱 cumin kmin n. 莳萝, 小茴香子 purge p:d n. 整肃,清除,泻药,净化 vt. 净化,清除,摆脱 vi. 清除,通便,腹泻,变得清洁 disciple disaipl n. 弟子, 门徒 turmeric t:mrik n. 姜黄，姜黄根之粉末 redolent redulnt adj. 有.香味的, 令人想起.的Jobs was also beginning to have a little trouble stomaching Friedlands cult leader style. “Perhaps he saw a little bit too much of Robert in himself,” said Kottke. Although the commune was supposed to be a refuge from materialism, Friedland began operating it more as a business; his followers were told to chop and sell firewood, make apple presses and wood stoves, and engage in other commercial endeavors for which they were not paid. One night Jobs slept under the table in the kitchen and was amused to notice that people kept coming in and stealing each others food from the refrigerator. Communal economics were not for him. “It started to get very materialistic,” Jobs recalled. “Everybody got the idea they were working very hard for Roberts farm, and one by one they started to leave. I got pretty sick of it.” commune kmju:n n. 公社 vi. 交换思想、意见或感受, 交流 chop tp n. 厚肉片,排骨,砍 vt. 剁碎,砍(价),切 vi. 砍 cult klt n. 宗教膜拜仪式,异教,狂热崇拜,个人崇拜 refuge refju:d n. 避难(处), 庇护(所) v. 庇护, 避难(所) materialism mtirilizm n. 唯物主义，唯物论，实利主义 presses pres n. 新闻界, 压力 v. 按, 压，逼迫 v. 强迫服役，征用 n. 强迫服役 materialistic mtirilistik;mtirilistik adj. 唯物论的, 唯物主义的 stove stuv n. 炉子,火炉窑;烘房；【主英】温室 firewood fairwud n. 火柴(薪) communal kmjunl adj. 公有的 economics i:knmiks, ek- n. 经济学 engage ingeid v. 答应, 预定, 使忙碌, 雇佣, 订婚 Many years later, after Friedland had become a billionaire copper and gold mining executiveworking out of Vancouver, Singapore, and MongoliaI met him for drinks in New York. That evening I emailed Jobs and mentioned my encounter. He telephoned me from California within an hour and warned me against listening to Friedland. He said that when Friedland was in trouble because of environmental abuses committed by some of his mines, he had tried to contact Jobs to intervene with Bill Clinton, but Jobs had not responded. “Robert always portrayed himself as a spiritual person, but he crossed the line from being charismatic to being a con man,” Jobs said. “It was a strange thing to have one of the spiritual people in your young life turn out to be, symbolically and in reality, a gold miner.” copper kp adj. (紫)铜色的,铜(制)的 n. 铜,铜币,铜制品 mining maini n. 采矿, 矿业 Singapore sigp: n. 新加坡 executive igzekjutiv adj. 行政的 n. 执行者, 主管 Mongolia mgulj n. 蒙古 environmental invairnmentl adj. 环境的 abuse bju:z n. 滥用,恶习 vt. 滥用,辱骂,虐待 Vancouver vnku:v n. 温哥华市(温哥华) encounter inkaunt n. 意外的相见,遭遇 vt. &vi. 遇到,偶然碰到,遭遇 spiritual sprtl adj. 精神的, 心灵的 n. (尤指美国南部黑人的)圣歌 Clinton klintn n. 克林顿(姓) intervene intvi:n vi. 插入,介入,干涉,调停 计算机 介入 mine main n. 地雷, 矿山, 宝库 pron. 我的 vt. 采矿, 开凿, 暗中破坏, 埋地雷 vi. 挖掘 symbolically simblikli adv. 象征地, 象征性地 charismatic krizmtik adj. 有魅力的 con kn vt. 精读,学习,默记, 掌舵, 欺骗 adv. 反对地 adj. 欺诈的 n. 反对论点，反对者,欺骗, 操舵台, 掌舵 portray p:trei v. 描写,描写.的肖像,逼真地描写 commit kmit v. 委托(托付), 犯罪, 作.事, 承诺 计算机 委托. . . Drop Out（退出，退学）Jobs quickly became bored with college. He liked being at Reed, just not taking the required classes. In fact he was surprised when he found out that, for all of its hippie aura, there were strict course requirements. When Wozniak came to visit, Jobs waved his schedule at him and complained, “They are making me take all these courses.” Woz replied, “Yes, thats what they do in college.” Jobs refused to go to the classes he was assigned and instead went to the ones he wanted, such as a dance class where he could enjoy both the creativity and the chance to meet girls. “I would never have refused to take the courses you were supposed to, thats a difference in our personality,” Wozniak marveled. hippie hipi n. 嬉皮, 嬉皮模样的年青人 =hippy creativity kri:eitiviti;kri:eitivti n. 创造力, 创造 strict strikt adj. 严格的, 精确的, 完全的 reed ri:d n. 芦苇, 芦笛,簧片 Reed：里德（姓氏） aura :r n. 气味, 气氛; n. 光环, 光圈 bore b: vbl. 忍受(动词bear的过去式) n. 令人讨厌的人,枪膛,孔,井眼,枪管口径,涌潮 vt. 使感到厌烦,钻孔,挖 vi. 挖掘,开凿 assign sain v. 分配,指派 n.计算机 DOS 命令将驱动器符重指向第二个驱动器符 marvel m:vl n. 奇异的事物, 罕见的例子 v. 惊异于, 惊异Jobs also began to feel guilty, he later said, about spending so much of his parents money on an education that did not seem worthwhile. “All of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition,” he recounted in a famous commencement address at Stanford. “I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was sp