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For Jobs, the contest against Be was both professional and personal.
對(duì)于喬布斯來說，跟Be的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)亦公亦私。
NeXT was failing, and the prospect of being bought by Apple was a tantalizing lifeline.
NeXT已在走下坡路，被蘋果收購(gòu)是一根救命稻草。
In addition, Jobs held grudges, sometimes passionately, and Gassée was near the top of his list,
另外，喬布斯是很記仇的，加西在他心里幾乎是最大的仇人，排名甚至比斯卡利還高。
despite the fact that they had seemed to reconcile when Jobs was at NeXT.
盡管他們?cè)贜eXT的時(shí)候似乎已經(jīng)和解了。
"Gassée is one of the few people in my life I would say is truly horrible," Jobs later insisted, unfairly. "He knifed me in the back in 1985."
“加西真是個(gè)邪惡的家伙，”喬布斯后來說，“他是我這輩子認(rèn)為真正邪惡的少數(shù)幾個(gè)人之一。1985年他在背后捅了我一刀。”
Sculley, to his credit, had at least been gentlemanly enough to knife Jobs in the front.
而斯卡利至少還是個(gè)紳士，是從前面捅他刀子的。
On December 2, 1996, Steve Jobs set foot on Apple's Cupertino campus for the first time since his ouster eleven years earlier.
1996年12月2日，史蒂夫·喬布斯在時(shí)隔11年后，再次踏上了蘋果位于庫(kù)比蒂諾的土地。
In the executive conference room, he met Amelio and Hancock to make the pitch for NeXT.
在管理層會(huì)議室，他向阿梅里奧和漢考克展示了NeXT。
Once again he was scribbling on the whiteboard there,
又一次，他在那塊白板上狂寫亂畫，
this time giving his lecture about the four waves of computer systems that had culminated, at least in his telling, with the launch of NeXT.
而這次他是在講計(jì)算機(jī)系統(tǒng)的4次浪潮，以及NeXT作為這次浪潮的頂點(diǎn)出現(xiàn)。
He was at his most seductive, despite the fact that he was speaking to two people he didn't respect.
他盡其所能吸引著聽眾，盡管事實(shí)上他面對(duì)的是他并不尊重的兩個(gè)人。
He was particularly adroit at feigning modesty.
他尤其擅長(zhǎng)偽裝謙遜。
"It's probably a totally crazy idea," he said, but if they found it appealing,
“可能這是個(gè)完全瘋狂的想法。”他說，但是如果他們感興趣，
"I'll structure any kind of deal you want--license the software, sell you the company, whatever."
“我愿意設(shè)計(jì)任何一種你們想要的合作方式--授權(quán)軟件，把公司賣給你們--哪種方式都行。”
