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"Hello. I'm Macintosh. It sure is great to get out of that bag," it began.
“你好，我是麥金塔。從包包里面出來的感覺真好。”它致以開場白。
The only thing it didn't seem to know how to do was to wait for the wild cheering and shrieks that erupted.
要說這臺電腦有什么不會做的事，那就是還不知道應當在觀眾爆發瘋狂歡呼和尖叫的時候停頓一下。
Instead of basking for a moment, it barreled ahead.
沒有等待，它繼續快速獨白：
"Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking, I'd like to share with you a maxim I thought of the first time I met an IBM mainframe:
“我還不習慣公開演講，但我想要和大家分享自己第一次見到IBM大型機時的感想。
Never trust a computer you can't lift."
千萬不要相信一臺你搬不動的電腦。”
Once again the roar almost drowned out its final lines.
歡呼聲又一次響起，幾乎淹沒了麥金塔的最后幾句話。
"Obviously, I can talk. But right now I'd like to sit back and listen.
“顯然，我能說話。但是現在，我想要坐下來聆聽。
So it is with considerable pride that I introduce a man who's been like a father to me, Steve Jobs."
接下來，讓我非常自豪地請出一個人，他就如同我的父親一樣--史蒂夫·喬布斯。”
Pandemonium erupted, with people in the crowd jumping up and down and pumping their fists in a frenzy.
禮堂里一片喧鬧，人們上躥下跳，瘋狂地揮舞著拳頭。
Jobs nodded slowly, a tight-lipped but broad smile on his face, then looked down and started to choke up.
喬布斯緩緩地點了點頭，雙唇緊閉但笑得很開心，接著他低下頭開始哽咽。
The ovation continued for five minutes.
掌聲持續了將近5分鐘。
After the Macintosh team returned to Bandley 3 that afternoon,
當天下午，麥金塔團隊回到位于班德利路3號的公司總部后，
a truck pulled into the parking lot and Jobs had them all gather next to it.
一輛卡車開進了停車場，喬布斯把所有團隊成員都召集起來。
Inside were a hundred new Macintosh computers, each personalized with a plaque.
卡車里是100臺全新的麥金塔電腦，每一臺都配有一個個性化的名牌。
"Steve presented them one at a time to each team member,
“史蒂夫為每位團隊成員逐個送上一臺電腦，
with a handshake and a smile, as the rest of us stood around cheering," Hertzfeld recalled.
同他們握手微笑，其余的人就在周圍歡呼。”赫茨菲爾德回憶道。
It had been a grueling ride, and many egos had been bruised by Jobs's obnoxious and rough management style.
麥金塔電腦的誕生過程令人筋疲力盡，許多人都被喬布斯可惡有時甚至殘酷的管理風格傷害過。
But neither Raskin nor Wozniak nor Sculley nor anyone else at the company could have pulled off the creation of the Macintosh.
但是，無論拉斯金還是沃茲尼亞克，抑或是斯卡利或公司任何其他人，都不可能創造出麥金塔電腦。
Nor would it likely have emerged from focus groups and committees.
它也不可能誕生于常規的市場調查組和產品設計委員會。
On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done.
麥金塔發布當天，來自《大眾科學》的一位記者問喬布斯做過什么類型的市場調研工作。
Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?"
喬布斯語帶嘲笑地回應：“亞歷山大·格雷厄姆·貝爾在發明電話之前做過任何市場調研嗎？”
