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Brennan spent a lot of her time that summer painting; she was talented, and she did a picture of a clown for Jobs that he kept on the wall. Jobs wrote poetry and played guitar.
那年夏天，布倫南用了很多時間畫畫。她非常有才華，畫了一幅小丑的畫送給喬布斯，他一直把它掛在墻上。喬布斯平時就寫寫詩，玩玩吉他。
He could be brutally cold and rude to her at times, but he was also entrancing and able to impose his will.
他有時候會對布倫南非常冷血和粗魯，但有時候又十分迷人，可以輕易說服別人接受自己的意愿。
"He was an enlightened being who was cruel," she recalled. "That's a strange combination."
“他很開明，又很殘酷，”她回憶說，“真是奇怪的組合。”
Midway through the summer, Jobs was almost killed when his red Fiat caught fire.
暑假中間，有一次喬布斯的紅色菲亞特著火了，他差點兒因此喪命。
He was driving on Skyline Boulevard in the Santa Cruz Mountains with a high school friend, Tim Brown,
當時他正行駛在圣克魯茲山區的天際線大道上，與他同行的是一個高中朋友，蒂姆*布朗（Tim Brown)。
who looked back, saw flames coming from the engine, and casually said to Jobs, "Pull over, your car is on fire." Jobs did.
蒂姆朝后看了一眼，發現引擎在往外冒火花，于是他平靜地對喬布斯說：“靠邊停車，你的車著火了。”喬布斯照做了。
His father, despite their arguments, drove out to the hills to tow the Fiat home.
他父親盡管與他發生了爭執，還是驅車來到山區，把菲亞特拖回了家。
In order to find a way to make money for a new car, Jobs got Wozniak to drive him to De Anza College to look on the help-wanted bulletin board.
為了想辦法賺錢買一輛新車，喬布斯讓沃茲尼亞克開車帶他去了迪安扎學院，到那里的公告板上尋找招工啟事。
They discovered that the Westgate Shopping Center in San Jose was seeking college students who could dress up in costumes and amuse the kids.
他們發現，圣何塞的西門購物中心(Westgate Shopping Center)正在招募大學生，要他們穿上戲服逗小孩子玩。
So for $3 an hour, Jobs, Wozniak, and Brennan donned heavy full-body costumes and headgear to play Alice in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter, and the White Rabbit.
為了3美元一小時的報酬，喬布斯和沃茲尼亞克以及布倫南穿上厚厚的全套戲服，戴上帽子，扮演夢游仙境的愛麗絲、瘋帽子和白兔子。
Wozniak, in his earnest and sweet way, found it fun.
真誠又親切的沃茲尼亞克，覺得這一切十分有趣。
"I said, 'I want to do it, it's my chance, because I love children.' I think Steve looked at it as a lousy job, but I looked at it as a fun adventure."
“我說：‘我想做這個，這是我的機會，因為我喜歡小孩子。’我從惠普請了假。我想史蒂夫覺得這是個爛工作，但我把它當做一次愉快的經歷。”
Jobs did indeed find it a pain. "It was hot, the costumes were heavy, and after a while I felt like I wanted to smack some of the kids."
喬布斯確實做得很痛苦：“太熱了，那些服裝又很重，只要在里面待上一會兒我就會產生揍那些小孩兒的沖動。”
Patience was never one of his virtues.
“耐心”這個詞，從來就與喬布斯沾不上邊兒。
