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Machines of the Year
年度機器
As 1982 drew to a close, Jobs came to believe that he was going to be Time's Man of the Year.
隨著1982年臨近尾聲，喬布斯開始相信，自己將成為《時代》雜志的“年度人物”。
He arrived at Texaco Towers one day with the magazine's San Francisco bureau chief, Michael Moritz,
一天，他和《時代》舊金山分部的總編邁克爾·莫里茨一同出現在公司，
and encouraged colleagues to give Moritz interviews.
他還鼓勵同事們接受莫里茨的采訪。
But Jobs did not end up on the cover.
但最終，喬布斯并沒有登上該雜志封面。
Instead the magazine chose "the Computer" as the topic for the year-end issue and called it "the Machine of the Year."
《時代》將“計算機”選為了年終刊的主題，并稱之為“年度機器”。
Accompanying the main story was a profile of Jobs,
和主題報道一起的有一篇喬布斯的介紹，
which was based on the reporting done by Moritz and written by Jay Cocks,
是根據莫里茨的報道，由杰伊·科克斯撰寫的，
an editor who usually handled rock music for the magazine.
而科克斯以往只是負責搖滾樂信息方面的編輯。
"With his smooth sales pitch and a blind faith that would have been the envy of the early Christian martyrs,
文中寫道：“他有髙超的推銷技巧，他的堅定信仰甚至讓早期的基督教殉道者都羨慕不已，
it is Steven Jobs, more than anyone, who kicked open the door and let the personal computer move in," the story proclaimed.
正是他--史蒂夫·喬布斯--開啟了個人電腦產業。”
It was a richly reported piece, but also harsh at times
這是一篇內容十分豐富的文章，但也不乏粗糙之處，
so harsh that Moritz (after he wrote a book about Apple and went on to be a partner in the venture firm Sequoia Capital with Don Valentine)
以至于莫里茨（在他寫了一本關于蘋果公司的書，又進入風險投資公司紅杉資本和唐·瓦倫丁成為了合伙人之后）
repudiated it by complaining that his reporting had been
駁斥它并抱怨說自己的報道被
"siphoned, filtered, and poisoned with gossipy benzene by an editor in New York
“一個來自紐約、日常工作是記錄搖滾音樂界不羈生活的編輯斷章取義，
whose regular task was to chronicle the wayward world of rock-and-roll music."
還添加了一些八卦消息”
The article quoted Bud Tribble on Jobs's "reality distortion field"
那篇介紹文章中引用了巴德·特里布爾關于喬布斯“現實扭曲力場”的言論，
and noted that he "would occasionally burst into tears at meetings."
還提到喬布斯“有時候會在會議上突然哭起來”。
Perhaps the best quote came from Jef Raskin.
最精彩的一句引用也許來自杰夫·拉斯金，
Jobs, he declared, "would have made an excellent King of France."
他說，喬布斯“可以成為杰出的法蘭西國王”。
To Jobs's dismay, the magazine made public the existence of the daughter he had forsaken, Lisa Brennan.
讓喬布斯沮喪的是，雜志公開了一件事情：他有一個被他拋棄的女兒--麗薩·布倫南。
He knew that Kottke had been the one to tell the magazine about Lisa,
喬布斯知道是科特基把麗薩的事情告訴了雜志，
and he berated him in the Mac group work space in front of a half dozen people.
他在Mac團隊的辦公區當著一群人的面痛斥了科特基。
"When the Time reporter asked me if Steve had a daughter named Lisa, I said 'Of course,'" Kottke recalled.
“《時代》的記者問我喬布斯是不是有個叫麗薩的女兒，我說當然是。”科特基回憶說，
"Friends don't let friends deny that they're the father of a child.
“朋友是不會讓朋友否認自己是一個孩子的父親的。
I'm not going to let my friend be a jerk and deny paternity.
我不會讓我的朋友這么混蛋，否認自己是個父親。
He was really angry and felt violated and told me in front of everyone that I had betrayed him."
他真的很生氣，覺得受到了冒犯，然后當著所有人的面說我背叛了他。”
