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Jobs began pushing for a portable music player in the fall of 2000,
2000年秋天，喬布斯開始督促設計便攜式音樂播放器，
but Rubinstein responded that the necessary components were not available yet. He asked Jobs to wait.
但是魯賓斯坦回應說還缺少一些重要的部件，他讓喬布斯再等一陣子。
After a few months Rubinstein was able to score a suitable small LCD screen and rechargeable lithium-polymer battery.
幾個月之后，魯賓斯坦開始選擇合適的液晶屏幕和可充電的鋰電池。
The tougher challenge was finding a disk drive that was small enough but had ample memory to make a great music player.
不過，最大的挑戰在于要找到一個尺寸小但存儲空間大的硬盤。
Then, in February 2001, he took one of his regular trips to Japan to visit Apple's suppliers.
之后，2001年2月，他去了日本的蘋果供應商那里作例行訪向。
At the end of a routine meeting with Toshiba,
在和東芝公司開完例會之后，
the engineers mentioned a new product they had in the lab that would be ready by that June.
工程師們提到，他們正在實驗室研發一項新產品，到6月可以完成。
It was a tiny, 1.8-inch drive (the size of a silver dollar)
那是一個1.8英寸見方的硬盤（大約是1美元硬幣的大小），
that would hold five gigabytes of storage (about a thousand songs), and they were not sure what to do with it.
帶有5G的內存（大約能存放1000首歌曲），但他們不知道可以用它來做什么。
When the Toshiba engineers showed it to Rubinstein, he knew immediately what it could be used for.
當東芝的工程師把這個小硬盤展示給魯賓斯坦時，他立刻就想到了該怎么利用它。
A thousand songs in his pocket! Perfect. But he kept a poker face.
把1000首歌裝進口袋！這主意太棒了！但他當時不動聲色。
Jobs was also in Japan, giving the keynote speech at the Tokyo Macworld conference.
喬布斯當時也在日本，他正在東京的Macworld大會上作主旨演講。
They met that night at the Hotel Okura, where Jobs was staying.
他們當晚就在喬布斯下榻的大倉酒店見面。
"I know how to do it now," Rubinstein told him. "All I need is a $10 million check."
魯賓斯坦告訴他：“我知道現在該怎么做了，我只需要一張1000萬美元的支票。”
Jobs immediately authorized it.
喬布斯馬上就批準了。
So Rubinstein started negotiating with Toshiba to have exclusive rights to every one of the disks it could make,
后來魯賓斯坦開始和東芝談判，希望買下所有小硬盤的專有權，
and he began to look around for someone who could lead the development team.
然后，他便開始物色可以領導開發團隊的人選。
