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Jobs kept his mansion in Woodside, about ten miles up into the mountains from Palo Alto.
喬布斯的伍德賽德公館在離帕洛奧圖10英里的山里。
He wanted to tear down the fourteen-bedroom 1925 Spanish colonial revival,
他想拆掉這座1925年西班牙殖民復興風格的有著14間臥室的房子，
and he had plans drawn up to replace it with an extremely simple, Japanese-inspired modernist home one-third the size.
重新建一座面積只有1/3、極其簡潔的日本風格的現代主義居所。
But for more than twenty years he engaged in a slow-moving series of court battles with preservationists
但是在20多年的時間里，他跟保護主義者進行了長期的法庭斗爭，
who wanted the crumbling original house to be saved.
他們希望保存這座建筑的原樣。
(In 2011 he finally got permission to raze the house, but by then he had no desire to build a second home.)
（2011年，他終于得到許可可以拆掉這所房子，但是到這時，他已經不想再建另一個家了。）
On occasion Jobs would use the semi-abandoned Woodside home, especially its swimming pool, for family parties.
有時候，喬布斯會用他半廢棄的伍德賽德宅邸--尤其是游泳池--開家庭派對。
When Bill Clinton was president, he and Hillary Clinton stayed in the 1950s ranch house
比爾·克林頓當總統時，他和希拉里·克林頓
on the property on their visits to their daughter, who was at Stanford.
每次來看在斯坦福上學的女兒，就住在其中建于50年代的度假屋里。
Since both the main house and ranch house were unfurnished,
由于主體建筑和度假屋都沒有家具，
Powell would call furniture and art dealers when the Clintons were coming and pay them to furnish the houses temporarily.
克林頓一家來的時候，鮑威爾會找來家具和藝術品供應商進行暫時性的裝飾。
Once, shortly after the Monica Lewinsky flurry broke,
有一次，就在莫妮卡·萊溫斯基事件爆發不久，
Powell was making a final inspection of the furnishings and noticed that one of the paintings was missing.
鮑威爾在對家具作最后檢查時，發現一幅畫不見了。
Worried, she asked the advance team and Secret Service what had happened.
她擔心地問先遣隊和特工是怎么回事。
One of them pulled her aside and explained that it was a painting of a dress on a hanger,
一個人把她拉到一邊解釋說，那幅畫上是一個衣架和一條裙子，
and given the issue of the blue dress in the Lewinsky matter they had decided to hide it.
鑒于萊溫斯基事件里那條藍色裙子，他們決定把那幅畫藏起來。
