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In the mornings at his Woodside mansion,
在伍德賽德那幢幾乎沒有任何家具的大宅里，清晨，
he would wake Powell up by blasting the Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy" on his tape deck.
他會放年輕食人族樂隊的《她讓我瘋狂》，把鮑威爾叫醒。
Yet at other times he would ignore her.
而其他時候，他又會對她視而不見。
"Steve would fluctuate between intense focus, where she was the center of the universe,
“史蒂夫會走兩個極端，有時高度專注，好像她是宇宙的中心，
to being coldly distant and focused on work," said Smith.
而有時又表現出冷漠的距離感，專注在工作上。”史密斯說，
"He had the power to focus like a laser beam, and when it came across you, you basked in the light of his attention.
“他有能力像激光那么專注，當他的光芒照耀在你身上，你會沐浴著他的關愛。
When it moved to another point of focus, it was very, very dark for you. It was very confusing to Laurene."
而當他的光芒轉移到其他關注點時，你就會感覺非常非常的黑暗。這讓勞倫感到非常困惑。”
Once she had accepted his marriage proposal on the first day of 1990, he didn't mention it again for several months.
1990年的第一天，她接受了他的求婚，之后他有幾個月都沒再提這件事。
Finally, Smith confronted him while they were sitting on the edge of a sandbox in Palo Alto.
最后，凱特·史密斯向他發難了。他們坐在帕洛奧圖的一處沙箱邊上。
What was going on? Jobs replied that
這到底是怎么回事？喬布斯回答說，
he needed to feel sure that Powell could handle the life he lived and the type of person he was.
他需要確切地感覺到勞倫可以受得了他過的這種生活以及他這種人。
In September she became fed up with waiting and moved out.
9月份，她等夠了，搬走了。
The following month, he gave her a diamond engagement ring, and she moved back in.
10月，他送給她一枚鉆石訂婚戒指，她又搬了回來。
