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Redse came from a troubled family, and Jobs shared with her his own pain about being put up for adoption.
萊德斯來自一個問題家庭，喬布斯跟她分享了自己被領養的痛苦。
"We were both wounded from our childhood," Redse recalled.
“我們都在童年受到傷害，”萊德斯回憶說，
"He said to me that we were misfits, which is why we belonged together."
“他對我說，我們都生錯了地方，正因如此我們才屬于對方。”
They were physically passionate and prone to public displays of affection;
他們充滿激情，也喜歡公開表現他們的感情；
their make-out sessions in the NeXT lobby are well remembered by employees.
他們在NeXT大堂親熱的場景，很多雇員都記憶猶新。
So too were their fights, which occurred at movie theaters and in front of visitors to Woodside.
他們吵架也同樣公開，在電影院，在伍德賽德的訪客面前，都曾發生過。
Yet he constantly praised her purity and naturalness.
然而他常常稱贊她的純潔和自然。
As the well-grounded Joanna Hoffman pointed out when discussing Jobs's infatuation with the otherworldly Redse,
我們后來討論喬布斯對超凡脫俗的萊德斯的癡迷時，就像直言不諱的喬安娜·霍夫曼所說的那樣，
"Steve had a tendency to look at vulnerabilities and neuroses and turn them into spiritual attributes."
“喬布斯會把柔弱和多愁善感當做一種氣質。”
When he was being eased out at Apple in 1985, Redse traveled with him in Europe, where he was salving his wounds.
當喬布斯1985年被排擠出蘋果時，萊德斯跟他去歐洲旅行，陪他在那里療傷。
Standing on a bridge over the Seine one evening, they bandied about the idea, more romantic than serious,
某晚，在塞納河的一座橋上，他們浪漫多于嚴肅地爭論著一個想法：
of just staying in France, maybe settling down, perhaps indefinitely.
留在法國，也許永久地定居在那兒。
Redse was eager, but Jobs didn't want to. He was burned but still ambitious.
萊德斯很渴望那樣，但是喬布斯不想。他很受挫但依然野心勃勃。
"I am a reflection of what I do," he told her.
“我做的正是我想做的。”他告訴她。
