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Kerwin took Jobs on a walk around the parking lot and begged that the employees be given at least two weeks notice.
克爾溫拽著喬布斯在停車場周圍散步，請求他至少提前兩周告知員工們這一消息。
"Okay," he shot back, "but the notice is retroactive from two weeks ago."
“好吧，”喬布斯回答道，“但通知應該倒推回兩周生效。”
Catmull was in Moscow, and Kerwin put in frantic calls to him.
卡特穆爾當時在莫斯科，克爾溫瘋了似的跟他打電話。
When he returned, he was able to institute a meager severance plan and calm things down just a bit.
卡特穆爾回來后，研究出一個遣散計劃，給予被解雇員工微薄的補償，稍微平息了事態。
At one point the members of the Pixar animation team were trying to convince Intel to let them make some of its commercials,
皮克斯動畫團隊曾一度試圖說服英特爾公司，希望承接對方的部分商業廣告制作業務。
and Jobs became impatient. During a meeting, in the midst of berating an Intel marketing director,
然而，喬布斯沒有一點兒耐性。一次會議上，喬布斯正痛斥英特爾的營銷總監，
he picked up the phone and called CEO Andy Grove directly.
說到一半又拿起電話，直接打給英特爾的CEO安迪·格魯夫。
Grove, still playing mentor, tried to teach Jobs a lesson: He supported his Intel manager.
格魯夫在某種程度上仍然算是喬布斯的老師，他想要給喬布斯上一課，他支持英特爾公司的經理。
"I stuck by my employee," he recalled. "Steve doesn't like to be treated like a supplier."
“我支持自己的員工，”他回憶道，“史蒂夫不喜歡被當做供應商來對待。”
Pixar was able to create some powerful software products aimed at average consumers,
皮克斯針對普通消費者市場，創造出了一些強大的軟件產品。
or at least those average consumers who shared Jobs's passion for designing things.
或者至少是認同喬布斯對于設計的狂熱之情的消費群體。
Jobs still hoped that the ability to make super-realistic 3-D images at home would become part of the desktop publishing craze.
喬布斯仍然希望，在家中創作超級逼真的3D圖像能夠成為桌面排版熱潮的一部分。
Pixar's Showplace, for example, allowed users to change the shadings on the 3-D objects they created
例如，皮克斯的Showplace軟件，用戶能夠用它改變3D物體的陰影，
so that they could display them from various angles with appropriate shadows.
這樣，在不同的角度下，能以適當的陰影展現出現實物體的模樣。
Jobs thought it was incredibly compelling, but most consumers were content to live without it.
喬布斯覺得這個軟件很酷，但是大多數消費者覺得這種功能可有可無。
It was a case where his passions misled him:
喬布斯的激情誤導了自己，Showplace軟件就是一個例證：
The software had so many amazing features that it lacked the simplicity Jobs usually demanded.
該軟件擁有如此多神奇的功能，但卻缺少喬布斯一向要求的簡單性。
