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When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his crewmates.
第二次世界大戰(zhàn)后，保羅·喬布斯從海岸警衛(wèi)隊退伍時，與他的隊員們打了一個賭。
They had arrived in San Francisco, where their ship was decommissioned, and Paul bet that he would find himself a wife within two weeks.
他們到達舊金山，在這里，他們的艦船退役了，保羅打賭說他要在兩周之內(nèi)給自己找到一個妻子。
He was a taut, tattooed engine mechanic, six feet tall, with a passing resemblance to James Dean.
他是個肌肉發(fā)達、有著文身的引擎機械師，6英尺高，長相酷似詹姆斯·迪恩（James Dean)。
But it wasn't his looks that got him a date with Clara Hagopian, a sweet-humored daughter of Armenian immigrants.
他約到了克拉拉·哈戈皮安 （Clara Hagopian),一個出身亞美尼亞移民家庭的甜美風(fēng)趣的女孩子。
It was the fact that he and his friends had a car, unlike the group she had originally planned to go out with that evening.
女孩看上的并不是他的容貌，而是他和他的朋友們可以使用一輛轎車，這是她當(dāng)晚原計劃的出行對象們做不到的。
Ten days later, in March 1946, Paul got engaged to Clara and won his wager.
10 天以后，1946年3月，保羅與克拉拉訂婚，同時也贏得了他的賭注。
It would turn out to be a happy marriage, one that lasted until death parted them more than forty years later.
事實證明這是一段幸福的婚姻，兩人廝守了 40 多年，直至死亡將他們分開。
Paul Reinhold Jobs had been raised on a dairy farm in Germantown, Wisconsin.
保羅·萊因霍爾德·喬布斯（Paul Rdnhold Jobs )在威斯康星州日耳曼敦的一家奶牛場長大。
Even though his father was an alcoholic and sometimes abusive, Paul ended up with a gentle and calm disposition under his leathery exterior.
盡管父親是個酒鬼，有時候還會虐待他，但在保羅粗獷的外表下還是有著一顆溫柔寧靜的心。
After dropping out of high school, he wandered through the Midwest picking up work as a mechanic until,
髙中退學(xué)后，他穿梭于中西部地區(qū)，做著機械師的工作，
at age nineteen, he joined the Coast Guard, even though he didn't know how to swim.
直到 19 歲那年加入海岸警衛(wèi)隊,雖然他并不會游泳。
He was deployed on the USS General M. C. Meigs and spent much of the war ferrying troops to Italy for General Patton.
他被安排在美國海軍的梅格斯號運兵船（USS M.C. Meigs) 上，戰(zhàn)爭中的大多數(shù)時間都在為巴頓將軍向意大利運輸部隊。
His talent as a machinist and fireman earned him commendations, but he occasionally found himself in minor trouble and never rose above the rank of seaman.
他作為一名機械師和鍋爐工的天賦為他贏得了不少獎勵，但他偶爾也會惹上一點兒小麻煩，所以軍銜從來沒有高過一等兵。
Clara was born in New Jersey, where her parents had landed after fleeing the Turks in Armenia,
克拉拉出生在新澤西州，這里也是她的父母逃離土耳其控制下的亞美尼亞之后落腳的地方。
and they moved to the Mission District of San Francisco when she was a child.
在她童年時，全家搬到了舊金山的米申區(qū)。
She had a secret that she rarely mentioned to anyone: She had been married before,but her husband had been killed in the war.
她有一個很少對外提及的秘密：她曾經(jīng)結(jié)過婚，但她的丈夫在戰(zhàn)爭中身亡了。
So when she met Paul Jobs on that first date, she was primed to start a new life.
所以當(dāng)她第一次和保羅約會時，心中已經(jīng)準(zhǔn)備好迎接嶄新的生活了。
Like many who lived through the war, they had experienced enough excitement that, when it was over,
如同許多經(jīng)歷過戰(zhàn)爭的人一樣，他們已經(jīng)經(jīng)歷了太多的刺激，所以當(dāng)戰(zhàn)爭結(jié)束之后，
they desired simply to settle down, raise a family, and lead a less eventful life.
他們渴望安定下來，生兒育女，過平靜的生活。
They had little money, so they moved to Wisconsin and lived with Paul's parents for a few years, then headed for Indiana,
他們沒有多少錢，所以搬到威斯康星州與保羅的父母一起居住了幾年，然后又去了印第安納州，
where he got a job as a machinist for International Harvester.
在那里，保羅找到了一份工作——在國際收割機公司（International Harvester)做機械師。
His passion was tinkering with old cars, and he made money in his spare time buying, restoring, and selling them.
他喜歡修理汽車，業(yè)余時間他靠買下舊車，修好后再賣出去賺錢。
Eventually he quit his day job to become a full-time used car salesman.
最終，他辭去了工作，成了一名全職的二手車商人。
Clara, however, loved San Francisco, and in 1952 she convinced her husband to move back there.
然而，克拉拉深愛著舊金山。1952 年，她終于說服丈夫，全家搬回了舊金山。
They got an apartment in the Sunset District facing the Pacific, just south of Golden Gate Park,
他們在日落區(qū)買下了一套公寓，地處金門公園南端，面朝太平洋。
and he took a job working for a finance company as a "repo man," picking the locks of cars whose owners hadn't paid their loans and repossessing them.
保羅在一家信貸公司找到了一份 “回收人” 的工作----撬開不能償還貸款的車主的車鎖，將車拖回，重新處置。
He also bought, repaired, and sold some of the cars, making a decent enough living in the process.
有時候他也會買下這樣的車，修好后出售，靠賺到的錢過著小康生活。
There was, however, something missing in their lives.
但他們的生活中卻始終缺少一樣?xùn)|西。
They wanted children, but Clara had suffered an ectopic pregnancy, in which the fertilized egg was implanted in a fallopian tube rather than the uterus, and she had been unable to have any.
他們想要孩子，但克拉拉經(jīng)歷過一次宮外孕而喪失了生育能力。
So by 1955, after nine years of marriage, they were looking to adopt a child.
到1955年，在結(jié)婚9年后，他們開始尋求領(lǐng)養(yǎng)一個孩子。
