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The next day, after consulting with the board, Woolard called Jobs back.
第二天，經過與董事會磋商，伍拉德給喬布斯打電話。
"We're going to approve this," he said. "But some of the board members don't like it.
“我們準備批準這項計劃，”他說，“但是一些董事會成員并不喜歡它。
We feel like you've put a gun to our head."
我們感覺好像你在拿槍頂著我們的腦袋。”
The options for the top team (Jobs had none) were reset at $13.25, which was the price of the stock the day Amelio was ousted.
最高層員工的期權被重新定價為13.25美元（喬布斯一份期權也沒有），這是阿梅里奧被解雇當天的股票價格。
Instead of declaring victory and thanking the board,
本應宣告勝利并感謝董事會，
Jobs continued to seethe at having to answer to a board he didn't respect.
喬布斯卻繼續不滿于必須向一個自己并不敬佩的董事會匯報。
"Stop the train, this isn't going to work," he told Woolard.
“停車吧，這樣下去不行。”他告訴伍拉德，
"This company is in shambles, and I don't have time to wet-nurse the board.
“這家公司岌岌可危，我沒時間哄著董事會玩兒，
So I need all of you to resign. Or else I'm going to resign and not come back on Monday."
所以我需要你們全都辭職。要不然我就辭職，下周一不回來上班了。”
The one person who could stay, he said, was Woolard.
只有一個人可以留下，他說，就是伍拉德。
Most members of the board were aghast.
董事會大部分成員都大吃一驚。
Jobs was still refusing to commit himself to coming back full-time or being anything more than an advisor,
喬布斯還沒承諾回來全職工作或是承擔比“顧問”更多的角色，
yet he felt he had the power to force them to leave.
居然就覺得他有權逼迫他們離開。
The hard truth, however, was that he did have that power over them.
然而，殘酷的現實是，他的確有這個權力。
They could not afford for him to storm off in a fury,
他們無法忍受喬布斯憤然離開，
nor was the prospect of remaining an Apple board member very enticing by then.
況且，繼續做蘋果董事會成員的前景當時對他們來說也不是那么誘人了。
"After all they'd been through, most were glad to be let off," Woolard recalled.
“在他們經歷了那一切后，大多數人都很髙興解脫出來。”伍拉德回憶說。
Once again the board acquiesced. It made only one request:
董事會又一次默許了。他們只提了一個要求：
Would he permit one other director to stay, in addition to Woolard? It would help the optics.
可否除了伍拉德之外再多留一位董事？那樣看起來好一些。
Jobs assented. "They were an awful board, a terrible board," he later said.
喬布斯同意了。“那是個糟糕的董事會，是個可怕的董事會。”他后來說，
"I agreed they could keep Ed Woolard and a guy named Gareth Chang, who turned out to be a zero.
“我同意留下埃德·伍拉德和一個叫張鎮中的不怎么樣的家伙
He wasn't terrible, just a zero.
那家伙不算太差。
Woolard, on the other hand, was one of the best board members I've ever seen.
但是伍拉德是我見過的最棒的董事會成員。
He was a prince, one of the most supportive and wise people I've ever met."
他是個杰出的人，是我遇到過的最可信賴的最明智的人之一。”
