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Whenever Jobs would come from his corporate office to visit the Mac team's engineers which was almost every afternoon
每當喬布斯離開公司辦公室，前去視察Mac團隊的工程師的時候--基本上是每天下午
they would hurriedly find somewhere for Komoto to hide.
他們都會趕緊找個地方讓嘉本藏起來。
At one point Jobs ran into him at a newsstand in Cupertino and recognized him from the meeting in Japan, but he didn't suspect anything.
有一次，喬布斯恰巧在庫比蒂諾的一處報刊亭遇到了嘉本并且認出了他，兩人在日本見過，但喬布斯并沒有起疑心。
The closest call was when Jobs came bustling onto the Mac work space unexpectedly one day
最險的一次是有一天，喬布斯出人意料地、急匆匆地來到Mac團隊的辦公區，
while Komoto was sitting in one of the cubicles.
而當時嘉本正坐在一個辦公隔間里。
A Mac engineer grabbed him and pointed him to a janitorial closet.
Mac的一名工程師抓起他，指了指清潔間。
"Quick, hide in this closet. Please! Now!"
“快點，躲到里面去。拜托了！現在就去！”
Komoto looked confused, Hertzfeld recalled, but he jumped up and did as told.
赫茨菲爾德回憶說，當時嘉本一臉迷惑，但還是跳起來一頭沖進了清潔間。
He had to stay in the closet for five minutes, until Jobs left.
他在里面待了5分鐘，直到喬布斯離開。
The Mac engineers apologized.
Mac團隊的工程師們向他道歉。
"No problem," he replied. "But American business practices, they are very strange. Very strange."
“沒關系，”他回答道，“但美國的商業習慣真是非常奇怪，非常奇怪。”
Belleville's prediction came true.
貝爾維爾的預言變成了現實。
In May 1983 the folks at Alps admitted it would take them at least eighteen more months
1983年5月，阿爾卑斯電子公司的人承認，至少還需要18個月，
to get their clone of the Sony drive into production.
才能生產出索尼驅動器的仿制品。
At a retreat in Pajaro Dunes, Markkula grilled Jobs on what he was going to do.
在帕加羅沙丘休假時，馬庫拉追問喬布斯打算怎么辦。
Finally, Belleville interrupted and said that he might have an alternative to the Alps drive ready soon.
最終，貝爾維爾打斷了他們的對話，說自己可能有阿爾卑斯驅動器的替代產品，并且很快就可以投入使用。
Jobs looked baffled for just a moment, and then it became clear to him why he'd glimpsed Sony's top disk designer in Cupertino.
喬布斯困惑了一會兒，但很快他就明白了自己為什么會在庫比蒂諾遇到索尼的頂尖磁盤設計師。
"You son of a bitch!" Jobs said. But it was not in anger.
“你這個混蛋！”喬布斯說，但他的語氣中并沒有憤怒。
There was a big grin on his face.
他咧開嘴笑了起來。
As soon as he realized what Belleville and the other engineers had done behind his back, said Hertzfeld,
赫茨菲爾德說，喬布斯在知道了貝爾維爾和其他工程師背著他做的事情后，
"Steve swallowed his pride and thanked them for disobeying him and doing the right thing."
“收起了自己的傲慢，感謝他們沒有服從自己的命令，做了正確的事情”。
It was, after all, what he would have done in their situation.
畢竟，如果是喬布斯遇到這樣的狀況，他也會這么做的。
