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He wanted Amelio to help him return to Apple as the CEO.
他想讓阿梅里奧幫助他回到蘋果擔(dān)任CEO。
"There's only one person who can rally the Apple troops," Jobs said, "only one person who can straighten out the company."
“只有一個人可以重整蘋果大軍，”喬布斯說，“只有一個人可以帶領(lǐng)公司走出困境。”
The Macintosh era had passed, Jobs argued, and it was now time for Apple to create something new that was just as innovative.
喬布斯認(rèn)為麥金塔的時代已經(jīng)過去，是時候創(chuàng)造一些新的并具有創(chuàng)新性的東西了。
"If the Mac is dead, what's going to replace it?" Amelio asked.
“如果Mac已死，什么會代替它？”阿梅里奧問。
Jobs's reply didn't impress him.
喬布斯的回答沒能打動他。
"Steve didn't seem to have a clear answer," Amelio later said. "He seemed to have a set of one-liners."
“史蒂夫似乎沒有一個清晰的答案，”阿梅里奧后來說，“他好像是有一些零散的想法。”
Amelio felt he was witnessing Jobs's reality distortion field and was proud to be immune to it.
阿梅里奧認(rèn)為他正在目睹喬布斯的現(xiàn)實(shí)扭曲力場，并且很自豪沒有受其影響。
He shooed Jobs unceremoniously out of his office.
他不客氣地把喬布斯請出了他的辦公室。
By the summer of 1996 Amelio realized that he had a serious problem.
到1996年夏天，阿梅里奧認(rèn)識到他面臨著一個嚴(yán)重的問題。
Apple was pinning its hopes on creating a new operating system, called Copland,
蘋果公司把希望寄托在創(chuàng)造一個叫Copland的新操作系統(tǒng)上，
but Amelio had discovered soon after becoming CEO that it was a bloated piece of vaporware
但是阿梅里奧成為CEO后不久就發(fā)現(xiàn)，這只是一個紙上談兵的東西，
that would not solve Apple's needs for better networking and memory protection, nor would it be ready to ship as scheduled in 1997.
既不能實(shí)現(xiàn)蘋果所需要的更好的網(wǎng)絡(luò)和內(nèi)存保護(hù)，也無法如期在1997年交貨。
He publicly promised that he would quickly find an alternative. His problem was that he didn't have one.
阿梅里奧公開承諾，他將很快找到一個替代品。但問題是，他沒有替代品。
