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The one they reverse-engineered was "local integrated systems architecture," and despite being meaningless it became the official explanation for the name.
他們把這個縮寫逆推，得到了“本地集成系統(tǒng)架構(gòu)”,盡管這個短語毫無意義，它還是成為了麗薩這個名字的官方解釋。
Among the engineers it was referred to as "Lisa: invented stupid acronym."
工程師們私下把這個名字解釋為“Lisa:編造的愚蠢縮寫”。
Years later, when I asked about the name, Jobs admitted simply, "Obviously it was named for my daughter."
多年以后，當(dāng)我向喬布斯問起這個名字的時候，他坦率地承認(rèn)：“這很顯然是以我女兒的名字命名的?！?/div>
The Lisa was conceived as a $2,000 machine based on a sixteen-bit microprocessor, rather than the eight-bit one used in the Apple II.
麗薩被定位成一臺售價2000美元的電腦，采用16位微處理器，取代了Apple II上使用的8位微處理器。
Without the wizardry of Wozniak, who was still working quietly on the Apple II,
缺少了當(dāng)時仍在Apple II項(xiàng)目中埋頭苦干的沃茲尼亞克的才華，
the engineers began producing a straightforward computer with a conventional text display, unable to push the powerful microprocessor to do much exciting stuff.
工程師們開始制造一臺中規(guī)中矩的電腦，它使用傳統(tǒng)的文本顯示，也無法釋放微處理器的強(qiáng)大性能去完成激動人心的任務(wù)。
Jobs began to grow impatient with how boring it was turning out to be.
這款產(chǎn)品日漸顯現(xiàn)出它的平庸，喬布斯開始失去耐心了。
There was, however, one programmer who was infusing the project with some life: Bill Atkinson.
然而，有一名叫比爾·阿特金森的程序員給這個項(xiàng)目注入了一些活力。
He was a doctoral student in neuroscience who had experimented with his fair share of acid.
他是神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)科學(xué)專業(yè)的博士生，也嘗試過不少迷幻劑。
When he was asked to come work for Apple, he declined.
最初受邀加入蘋果的時候，他拒絕了。
But then Apple sent him a nonrefundable plane ticket, and he decided to use it and let Jobs try to persuade him.
但是后來蘋果公司給他寄去一張不可退票的機(jī)票，于是他決定用上這張機(jī)票，讓喬布斯設(shè)法說服他。
