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They made another attempt. "No, no," Jobs complained. "This isn't working at all."
工作人員又嘗試了一次。“不對，不對。”喬布斯抱怨道，“這根本不行。”
The next time, the lights were bright enough, but they came on too late.
又試了一次，這次燈光的亮度夠了，但出現(xiàn)得太晚。
"I'm getting tired of asking about this," Jobs growled.
“我已經(jīng)懶得再說你們了。”喬布斯喊道。
Finally, the iMac shone just right.
最后，iMac終于在燈光下閃亮登場。
"Oh! Right there! That's great!" Jobs yelled.
“對了！就是這樣！非常好！”喬布斯興奮地大叫。
A year earlier Jobs had ousted Mike Markkula, his early mentor and partner, from the board.
一年之前，喬布斯把他早期的導(dǎo)師兼合作者邁克·馬庫拉從董事會開除。
But he was so proud of what he had wrought with the new iMac,
但是出于對iMac的自豪之情，
and so sentimental about its connection to the original Macintosh,
以及iMac與Mac之間千絲萬縷的聯(lián)系，
that he invited Markkula to Cupertino for a private preview.
喬布斯把馬庫拉邀請到蘋果總部，讓他提前看一下產(chǎn)品。
Markkula was impressed. His only objection was to the new mouse that Ive had designed.
馬庫拉覺得iMac棒極了。但他唯一反對的就是艾弗設(shè)計的鼠標。
It looked like a hockey puck, Markkula said, and people would hate it.
他說它看起來太像一個冰球了，人們不會喜歡的。
Jobs disagreed, but Markkula was right.
喬布斯不同意他的觀點，但后來事實證明馬庫拉是對的。
Otherwise the machine had turned out to be, as had its predecessor, insanely great.
除此之外，iMac像它的前輩Mac電腦一樣無與倫比。
