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He and Egan also spoke for hours on the phone many nights.
很多個夜晚，他和伊根會煲幾個小時的電話粥。
One topic they wrestled with was his belief, which came from his Buddhist studies,
他們爭執不休的話題之一是他源于佛教修行的一個信條：
that it was important to avoid attachment to material objects.
要避免對物質的執著。
Our consumer desires are unhealthy, he told her,
他告訴伊根，我們的消費欲望是不健康的，
and to attain enlightenment you need to develop a life of nonattachment and non-materialism.
要過一種不執著、非物質的生活以達到覺醒。
He even sent her a tape of Kobun Chino, his Zen teacher, lecturing about the problems caused by craving and obtaining things.
他甚至寄給她一盤他的師父乙川弘文的錄像帶，是講由于對物質的執著追求引發的問題。
Egan pushed back. Wasn't he defying that philosophy, she asked, by making computers and other products that people coveted?
伊根反駁說，他在制造電腦和其他讓人們著迷的產品，這難道不是跟他推崇的哲學背道而馳嗎？
"He was irritated by the dichotomy, and we had exuberant debates about it," Egan recalled.
“他為這種矛盾而困擾，我們因此常常激烈地辯論。”伊根回憶說。
In the end Jobs's pride in the objects he made overcame his sensibility that people should eschew being attached to such possessions.
最后，喬布斯對自己產品的驕傲戰勝了人們不該迷戀這種東西的想法。
When the Macintosh came out in January 1984,
1984年1月，麥金塔問世時，
Egan was staying at her mother's apartment in San Francisco during her winter break from Penn.
伊根正住在她母親在舊金山的公寓過寒假。
Her mother's dinner guests were astonished one night when Steve Jobs--suddenly very famous
一夜成名的史蒂夫·喬布斯有一天突然出現在門口，震驚了伊根母親的晚餐客人。
appeared at the door carrying a freshly boxed Macintosh and proceeded to Egan's bedroom to set it up.
他搬了一臺尚未拆箱的麥金塔，徑直走到伊根的臥室去安裝。
Jobs told Egan, as he had a few other friends, about his premonition that he would not live a long life.
如他告訴少數幾個朋友的那樣，喬布斯也告訴伊根，他預計自己不會很長壽。
That was why he was driven and impatient, he confided.
他說正因如此，他才會那么馬不停蹄，那么缺乏耐心。
"He felt a sense of urgency about all he wanted to get done," Egan later said.
“對他想要做成的事情，他覺得迫切需要盡快去做。”伊根后來說。
