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Indeed after seeing what was coming up over the next few years -- Cars, Ratatouille, WALL-E
實際上，在看了之后幾年皮克斯出品的作品--《汽車總動員》、《美食總動員》以及《機器人瓦力》
Iger told his chief financial officer at Disney,
艾格對迪士尼的首席財務官說：
"Oh my God, they've got great stuff. We've got to get this deal done. It's the future of the company."
“天哪，他們的產品真不錯。我們要把這筆生意談下來。這關系到我們公司的未來。”
He admitted that he had no faith in the movies that Disney animation had in the works.
他承認他對迪士尼制作的動畫片沒有信心。
The deal they proposed was that Disney would purchase Pixar for $7.4 billion in stock.
雙方最后談定，迪士尼將用74億美元收購皮克斯的股份。
Jobs would thus become Disney's largest shareholder,
喬布斯也將由此成為迪士尼最大的股東，
with approximately 7% of the company's stock compared to 1.7% owned by Eisner and 1% by Roy Disney.
擁有迪士尼近7%的股份；相比之下，艾斯納所擁有的股份僅為1.7%，羅伊·迪士尼的股份為1%。
Disney Animation would be put under Pixar, with Lasseter and Catmull running the combined unit.
迪士尼動畫將歸屬皮克斯，由拉塞特和卡特穆爾運營。
Pixar would retain its independent identity,
皮克斯可以保留其獨立身份，
its studio and headquarters would remain in Emeryville, and it would even keep its own email addresses.
皮克斯的工作室和總部可以繼續留在愛莫利維爾市，原有的電子郵件域名也可以繼續使用。
Iger asked Jobs to bring Lasseter and Catmull to a secret meeting of the Disney board in Century City, Los Angeles, on a Sunday morning.
艾格告知喬布斯，某個周日的早晨帶上拉塞特和卡特穆爾去參加一個在洛杉磯世紀城召開的迪士尼董事會的秘密會議。
The goal was to make them feel comfortable with what would be a radical and expensive deal.
此行的目的是讓他們對這一激進而巨額的交易感到放心。
As they prepared to take the elevator from the parking garage, Lasseter said to Jobs,
當三人準備從停車場出發時，拉塞特對喬布斯說：
"If I start getting too excited or go on too long, just touch my leg."
“如果我一會兒興奮得忘乎所以或者滔滔不絕，你就拍一下我的腿。”
Jobs ended up having to do it once, but otherwise Lasseter made the perfect sales pitch.
結果在會議中喬布斯還真的拍了一下他的腿，但除此之外拉塞特的推介演講堪稱完美。
"I talked about how we make films, what our philosophies are, the honesty we have with each other,
“我講了我們怎么制作電影，我們的理念是什么，我們之間的互信，
and how we nurture the creative talent," he recalled.
以及我們是怎么培養創意人才的。”他回憶道。
The board asked a lot of questions, and Jobs let Lasseter answer most.
董事會問了很多問題，喬布斯讓拉塞特回答了其中的大部分。
But Jobs did talk about how exciting it was to connect art with technology.
喬布斯自己則談到了把藝術和科技聯系起來是一件多么令人興奮的事情：
"That's what our culture is all about, just like at Apple," he said.
“這就是我們的文化理念，和蘋果的是一樣的。”他說。
