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Jobs refused him permission to use some code he had created while at Pixar, which further inflamed their enmity.
喬布斯拒絕史密斯使用他在皮克斯時編寫的代碼，這又進一步加深了彼此的敵意。
"Alvy eventually got what he needed," said Catmull, "but he was very stressed for a year and developed a lung infection."
“阿爾維最終得到了他需要的東西，”卡特穆爾說，“但是，他這一年的壓力都很大，坯患上了肺部感染。”
In the end it worked out well enough; Microsoft eventually bought Smith's company,
最后，結果還算不錯，微軟收購了史密斯的新公司。
giving him the distinction of being a founder of one company that was sold to Jobs and another that was sold to Gates.
自己成立的公司，一家賣給喬布斯，另一家賣給蓋茨，這樣的人也只有史密斯了吧。
Ornery in the best of times, Jobs became particularly so
不過，即便在境況最好的時候，喬布斯的脾氣也很暴躁。
when it became clear that all three Pixar endeavors—hardware, software, and animated content—were losing money.
因此，當皮克斯的三項努力--硬件、軟件和動畫內容一者P在賠錢時，喬布斯就越發如此了。
"I'd get these plans, and in the end I kept having to put in more money," he recalled.
“我制訂了這些計劃，結果卻得不停地投錢進去。”他回憶說。
He would rail, but then write the check.
他會責罵皮克斯的人，但還是會給他們開支票。
Having been ousted at Apple and flailing at NeXT, he couldn't afford a third strike.
已經被蘋果驅逐，又被困在NeXT，他不能接受再一次打擊了。
To stem the losses, he ordered a round of deep layoffs, which he executed with his typical empathy deficiency.
為了止損，喬布斯下令進行一輪大規模裁員。他缺乏對待他人的同情心，冷酷地執行了這一決定。
As Pam Kerwin put it, he had "neither the emotional nor financial runway to be decent to people he was letting go."
正如帕姆·克爾溫所形容的：“對于要解雇的人，他在感情和財務上都不留余地。”
Jobs insisted that the firings be done immediately, with no severance pay.
喬布斯堅持裁員立即開始，且不支付遣散費。
