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One important showdown occurred when Atkinson decided that the screen should have a white background rather than a dark one.
阿特金森認為應該把屏幕的深色背景換成白色的，這引發了一次重大沖突。
This would allow an attribute that both Atkinson and Jobs wanted: WYSIWYG, pronounced "wiz-ee-wig," an acronym for "What you see is what you get."
屏幕背景色的改變可以實現阿特金森和喬布斯都想要的一個特性:WYSIWYG,這是“所見即所得”的縮寫。
What you saw on the screen was what you'd get when you printed it out.
你在屏幕上看到的是什么樣，打印出來就還是什么樣。
"The hardware team screamed bloody murder," Atkinson recalled.
“硬件團隊一片哀嚎，”阿特金森回憶說，
"They said it would force us to use a phosphor that was a lot less persistent and would flicker more."
“他們說，這樣的話就必須使用一種持久性差且閃爍嚴重的磷光體。”
So Atkinson enlisted Jobs, who came down on his side.
阿特金森只好搬來喬布斯幫忙，喬布斯自然站在了他的一邊。
The hardware folks grumbled, but then went off and figured it out.
硬件團隊抱怨連連，但之后還是實現了這個功能。
"Steve wasn't much of an engineer himself, but he was very good at assessing people's answers.
“喬布斯本人算不上是個工程師，但他十分擅長評估別人的答案。
He could tell whether the engineers were defensive or unsure of themselves."
他能看得出來工程師是心存戒備還是缺乏自信。”
One of Atkinson's amazing feats (which we are so accustomed to nowadays that we rarely marvel at it) was to allow the windows on a screen to overlap so that the "top" one clipped into the ones "below" it.
阿特金森的偉大功績之一（時至今日我們已經對它習以為常，感覺不到它的神奇）就是實現了屏幕上窗口間的重疊，這樣一來“上面的”窗口就疊在了“下面的”窗口上。
Atkinson made it possible to move these windows around, just like shuffling papers on a desk, with those below becoming visible or hidden as you moved the top ones.
這一功能讓人們可以像堆疊桌子上的文件紙張一樣移動屏幕上的窗口，在你移動上面的窗口時，下面的窗口就會被隱藏起來或者被顯示出來。
Of course, on a computer screen there are no layers of pixels underneath the pixels that you see, so there are no windows actually lurking underneath the ones that appear to be on top.
當然，在電腦屏幕上，并沒有層層像素隱藏在你看到的畫面下，所以在你看到的“上面的”窗口之下，并沒有隱藏的窗口。
To create the illusion of overlapping windows requires complex coding that involves what are called "regions."
制造窗口重疊的假象，需要編寫復雜的代碼，其中運用到了“區域”這樣一個概念。
Atkinson pushed himself to make this trick work because he thought he had seen this capability during his visit to Xerox PARC.
阿特金森強迫自己一定要做出這個效果，因為他覺得自己在施樂PARC見過這個功能。
In fact the folks at PARC had never accomplished it, and they later told him they were amazed that he had done so.
而實際上，施樂PARC的人從來沒能實現這個功能，他們后來還阿特金森完成這一壯舉表示了震驚。
"I got a feeling for the empowering aspect of naivet," Atkinson said.
“我終于知道什么叫無知者無畏了，”阿特金森說，
"Because I didn't know it couldn't be done, I was enabled to do it."
“正因為我不知道這個任務是如此困難，我才得以完成它。”
