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After a few potential purchasers balked in the fall of 1985,
1985年秋，在一些潛在買家都躊躇不決時，
Catmull and his colleague Alvy Ray Smith decided to seek investors so that they could buy the division themselves.
卡特穆爾和聯合創始人阿爾維·雷·史密斯決定自己買下這個部門并尋找投資者。
So they called Jobs, arranged another meeting, and drove down to his Woodside house.
于是，他們打電話找到喬布斯，又安排了一次會面，兩人驅車前往喬布斯位于伍德賽德的家中。
After railing for a while about the perfidies and idiocies of Sculley,
喬布斯先是抱怨了一通斯卡利的愚蠢和背信棄義，
Jobs proposed that he buy their Lucasfilm division outright.
然后提議自己全資買下盧卡斯影業的電腦部門。
Catmull and Smith demurred: They wanted an investor, not a new owner.
卡特穆爾和史密斯拒絕了。他們想要一位主要投資者而不是一個新的所有者。
But it soon became clear that there was a middle ground:
不過很快就有了一個折中辦法：
Jobs could buy a majority of the division and serve as chairman but allow Catmull and Smith to run it.
喬布斯出資購買多數股權，并擔任董事長，但由卡特穆爾和史密斯來運營。
"I wanted to buy it because I was really into computer graphics," Jobs recalled.
“我之所以想收購這個部門，是因為我真的很喜歡計算機圖形。”喬布斯后來回憶道，
"I realized they were way ahead of others in combining art and technology, which is what I've always been interested in."
“我意識到，在融合藝術與技術的領域，他們走在了其他人前面，而這個領域一直都是我的興趣所在。”
He offered to pay Lucas $5 million plus invest another $5 million to capitalize the division as a stand-alone company.
喬布斯提出的條件是，向盧卡斯支付500萬美元，然后自己再投入500萬美元，從而將這一部門變成獨立的公司。
That was far less than Lucas had been asking, but the timing was right. They decided to negotiate a deal.
這比盧卡斯一直以來所要求的金額低得多，然而時機對喬布斯來說卻剛剛好。于是，雙方決定通過談判達成交易。
