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Lisa
麗薩
Lisa Brennan, however, did not have a great childhood.
麗薩·布倫南的童年就沒有那么棒了。
When she was young, her father almost never came to see her.
她小時候，父親幾乎從不來看她。
"I didn't want to be a father, so I wasn't," Jobs later said, with only a touch of remorse in his voice.
“我不希望做父親，所以我就不做?！眴滩妓购髞碚f，語氣中只有一點點自責。
Yet occasionally he felt the tug. One day, when Lisa was three,
然而有時候他也能感覺到這種牽掛。麗薩3歲時的一天，
Jobs was driving near the house he had bought for her and Chrisann, and he decided to stop.
喬布斯開車路過他給她和克里斯安買的房子時，決定停下來看一看。
Lisa didn't know who he was. He sat on the doorstep, not venturing inside, and talked to Chrisann.
麗薩還不知道他是誰。他坐在門前的臺階上跟克里斯安聊天，沒敢進屋去。
The scene was repeated once or twice a year.
這樣的場景每年會出現一兩次。
Jobs would come by unannounced, talk a little bit about Lisa's school options or other issues, then drive off in his Mercedes.
喬布斯會突然跑來，簡單討論一下麗薩要上的學?；蚱渌虑椋缓缶烷_著他的奔馳車離開。
But by the time Lisa turned eight, in 1986, the visits were occurring more frequently.
但到了麗薩8歲的時候，也就是1986年，他來得更加頻繁。
Jobs was no longer immersed in the grueling push to create the Macintosh or in the subsequent power struggles with Sculley.
他已經從開發麥金塔的巨大壓力和后來跟斯卡利的權力之爭中解脫出來。
He was at NeXT, which was calmer, friendlier, and headquartered in Palo Alto, near where Chrisann and Lisa lived.
他當時在NeXT，環境更為平靜友善，公司總部在帕洛奧圖，離克里斯安和麗薩的住處很近。
In addition, by the time she was in third grade, it was clear that Lisa was a smart and artistic kid,
再加上，到了三四年級就可以看出，麗薩是個聰明又有藝術天賦的孩子，
who had already been singled out by her teachers for her writing ability.
她的寫作能力已經得到老師的特別關注了。
She was spunky and high-spirited and had a little of her father's defiant attitude.
她充滿勇氣，活力十足，還有一點兒她爸爸的叛逆氣質。
She also looked a bit like him, with arched eyebrows and a faintly Middle Eastern angularity.
她看起來也有點兒像他，彎彎的眉毛，略帶中東味道的棱角。
