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The house was not the minimalist and modernist style Jobs would have designed if he had built a home from scratch.
如果這處房子是喬布斯自己從頭設(shè)計的，肯定不會設(shè)計成這樣，這不是他喜歡的那種極簡主義和現(xiàn)代主義風(fēng)格。
Nor was it a large or distinctive mansion that would make people stop and take notice as they drove down his street in Palo Alto.
房子也不大，不顯眼，不是那種會讓人路過時駐足關(guān)注的建筑。
It was built in the 1930s by a local designer named Carr Jones,
它建于20世紀30年代，是一個當(dāng)?shù)卦O(shè)計師卡爾·瓊斯的作品，
who specialized in carefully crafted homes in the "storybook style" of English or French country cottages.
他的專長是精心打造“故事書風(fēng)格”的英式或法式鄉(xiāng)村小屋。
The two-story house was made of red brick, with exposed wood beams and a shingle roof with curved lines;
這是座兩層的紅磚房，木梁露在外面，屋頂鋪著小圓石頭，拼成曲線的圖案，
it evoked a rambling Cotswold cottage, or perhaps a home where a well-to-do Hobbit might have lived.
讓人想起科茨沃爾德的農(nóng)舍，或者是一個殷實的霍比特人的家。
The one Californian touch was a mission-style courtyard framed by the wings of the house.
能看出加利福尼亞風(fēng)格的一點，是房子的兩翼圍成一個傳教士風(fēng)格的庭院。
The two-story vaulted-ceiling living room was informal, with a floor of tile and terra- cotta.
兩層的穹頂起居室并非中規(guī)中矩，地上鋪著瓷磚。
At one end was a large triangular window leading up to the peak of the ceiling;
一頭是一個大大的三角形窗戶，直通天花板的頂部；
it had stained glass when Jobs bought it, as if it were a chapel, but he replaced it with clear glass.
喬布斯買下這幢房子時，窗子是彩繪玻璃的，像教堂一樣，后來換成了透明玻璃。
The other renovation he and Powell made was to expand the kitchen
他和鮑威爾作的另一個改動，就是擴建了廚房，
to include a wood-burning pizza oven and room for a long wooden table that would become the family's primary gathering place.
增加了一個燒木柴的比薩爐，以及一個新房間，可以放下一張長長的木餐桌，成為這個家庭主要的聚集地。
It was supposed to be a four-month renovation, but it took sixteen months because Jobs kept redoing the design.
翻新工作計劃在44個月內(nèi)完成，結(jié)果用了16個月，因為喬布斯不停地修改設(shè)計。
They also bought the small house behind them and razed it to make a backyard,
他們把后面的小房子也買下來拆掉，做出一個后院。
which Powell turned into a beautiful natural garden filled with a profusion of seasonal flowers along with vegetables and herbs.
鮑威爾把它變成了一個美麗的植物園，滿是各種季節(jié)的花卉蔬菜和香草。
