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As usual Jobs wanted to have some of their conversation while taking a walk.
一如既往地，喬布斯喜歡在散步時進行一些談話。
While they ambled around Palo Alto, he made a pitch to be put on Apple's board.
當他們在帕洛奧圖閑逛時，他提出希望被納入蘋果的董事會。
Amelio tried to deflect it, saying there was too much history to do something like that too quickly.
阿梅里奧試圖勸阻他，說有太多歷史問題，這樣做為時尚早。
"Gil, that really hurts," Jobs said. "This was my company. I've been left out since that horrible day with Sculley."
“吉爾，這太傷人了，”喬布斯說，“這曾是我的公司。而自從跟斯卡利交惡，我就被忽略不計了。”
Amelio said he understood, but he was not sure what the board would want.
阿梅里奧說他能理解，但是他不敢肯定董事會是什么態度。
When he was about to begin his negotiations with Jobs,
在跟喬布斯談判之前，
he had made a mental note to "move ahead with logic as my drill sergeant" and "sidestep the charisma."
阿梅里奧已經暗下決心，“我要按照自己的邏輯往前推進”并且“要回避他的人格魅力”。
But during the walk he, like so many others, was caught in Jobs's force field.
但是在散步過程中，跟其他很多人一樣，他完全陷入了喬布斯的磁場。
"I was hooked in by Steve's energy and enthusiasm," he recalled.
“我被史蒂夫的旺盛精力和熱情吸引住了。”他回憶說。
After circling the long blocks a couple of times, they returned to the house just as Laurene and the kids were arriving home.
在街區里轉了幾圈之后，他們回到史蒂夫家，正趕上勞倫和孩子們回來。
They all celebrated the easy negotiations, then Amelio rode off in his Mercedes.
他們一起慶祝談判順利，然后阿梅里奧開著他的奔馳離開了。
"He made me feel like a lifelong friend," Amelio recalled.
“他讓我覺得就像是個一輩子的朋友了。”阿梅里奧回憶說。
Jobs indeed had a way of doing that. Later, after Jobs had engineered his ouster,
喬布斯的確很擅長這一手。后來，當喬布斯把他趕出蘋果后，
Amelio would look back on Jobs's friendliness that day and note wistfully,
阿梅里奧回憶起那天喬布斯的友善，傷感地說，
"As I would painfully discover, it was merely one facet of an extremely complex personality."
“我痛苦地發現，那只是一個極端復雜人格的一個側面。”
