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Amelio's disillusionment came a few days after their dinner.
就在他們共進晚餐后不久，阿梅里奧的夢想破滅了。
During their negotiations, he had insisted that Jobs hold the Apple stock he got for at least six months, and preferably longer.
他們談判期間，阿梅里奧曾堅持喬布斯要持有他得到的蘋果股票至少6個月，越長越好。
That six months ended in June. When a block of 1.5 million shares was sold, Amelio called Jobs.
這6個月的時限在6月份到期。當一筆150萬股的大宗交易發生時，阿梅里奧給喬布斯打了電話。
"I'm telling people that the shares sold were not yours," he said.
“我要告訴人們那些出手的股票不是你的。”他說，
"Remember, you and I had an understanding that you wouldn't sell any without advising us first."
“記住，你我之間有個共識，你要出手之前會先通知我們。”
"That's right," Jobs replied.
“沒錯。”喬布斯回答。
Amelio took that response to mean that Jobs had not sold his shares, and he issued a statement saying so.
阿梅里奧把這個答復理解為喬布斯沒有賣出他的股票，于是發表了一個聲明予以否認。
But when the next SEC filing came out, it revealed that Jobs had indeed sold the shares.
可是直到證券交易委員會公布申報文件時，才發現喬布斯確實賣掉了他的股票。
"Dammit, Steve, I asked you point-blank about these shares and you denied it was you."
“該死，史蒂夫，我直接問過你，你說不是你。”
Jobs told Amelio that he had sold in a "fit of depression" about where Apple was going
喬布斯告訴阿梅里奧說，他賣股票是因為“一時對蘋果該往何處去感到沮喪”，
and he didn't want to admit it because he was "a little embarrassed."
而他不想承認是因為他“有點兒尷尬”。
When I asked him about it years later, he simply said, "I didn't feel I needed to tell Gil."
多年以后當我問起他時，他只是說，“我不覺得我需要通知吉爾。”
Why did Jobs mislead Amelio about selling the shares?
為什么喬布斯要在他是否賣了股票的問題上誤導阿梅里奧呢？
One reason is simple: Jobs sometimes avoided the truth.
一個原因很簡單：喬布斯有時候會回避事實。
Helmut Sonnenfeldt once said of Henry Kissinger, "He lies not because it's in his interest, he lies because it's in his nature."
哈特穆特·索南費爾德曾經這樣描述亨利·基辛格：“他撒謊不是因為那符合他的利益，他撒謊是因為那是他的天性。”
It was in Jobs's nature to mislead or be secretive when he felt it was warranted.
喬布斯生性就喜歡誤導人，或者有時候故作神秘，只要他覺得有理由。
But he also indulged in being brutally honest at times, telling the truths that most of us sugarcoat or suppress.
而另一方面，他有時也會誠實得近乎殘忍，講出那些我們大多會粉飾或隱瞞的事實。
Both the dissembling and the truth-telling were simply different aspects of his Nietzschean attitude that ordinary rules didn't apply to him.
撒謊和實話實說都只是他那尼采式的人生態度的兩個側面。一般規律對他不適用。
