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Jobs went home early that day to mull over the problem, then called Ive to come by.
當天，喬布斯早早回到家，開始仔細考慮這個問題，并把艾弗也叫來了。
They wandered into the garden, which Jobs's wife had planted with a profusion of sunflowers.
他們漫步走進花園，喬布斯的妻子在花園里種了許多向日葵。
"Every year I do something wild with the garden,
“每年我都在花園里做些瘋狂的事兒，
and that time it involved masses of sunflowers, with a sunflower house for the kids," she recalled.
當時就是種了很多向日葵，給孩子們一個滿是向日葵的家。”她回憶道，
"Jony and Steve were riffing on their design problem,
“喬尼和史蒂夫當時正在思考產品的設計問題，
then Jony asked, 'What if the screen was separated from the base like a sunflower?'
然后喬尼問，‘把屏幕像向日葵那樣和底座分離開來怎樣？’
He got excited and started sketching."
他感到很興奮，并開始畫起了草圖。”
Ive liked his designs to suggest a narrative,
他很喜歡用自己的設計來表達一個故事，
and he realized that a sunflower shape would convey that the flat screen was so fluid and responsive that it could reach for the sun.
他意識到，向日葵造型能傳達出純平顯示器的流暢性和出色的響應能力，仿佛隨時可以迎著太陽轉動。
In Ive's new design, the Mac's screen was attached to a movable chrome neck,
在艾弗的新設計中，Mac的屏幕連著一個鉻合金活動支頸，
so that it looked not only like a sunflower but also like a cheeky Luxo lamp.
這樣整個顯示器不僅看上去像向日葵，還看上去像《頑皮跳跳燈》。
Indeed it evoked the playful personality of Luxo Jr. in the first short film that John Lasseter had made at Pixar.
該動畫片是約翰·拉塞特為皮克斯制作的第一部短片，讓人聯想到了小臺燈的俏皮個性。
Apple took out many patents for the design, most crediting Ive, but on one of them,
蘋果為這一設計申請了許多專利，大多數都計入艾弗名下，但就其中一項設計，
for "a computer system having a movable assembly attached to a flat panel display," Jobs listed himself as the primary inventor.
“平板顯示器和底座之間由一個活動組件連接”，喬布斯將自己列為主要發明者。
In hindsight, some of Apple's Macintosh designs may seem a bit too cute.
現在回想起來，蘋果麥金塔的一些設計似乎有點兒太過可愛了。
But other computer makers were at the other extreme.
然而其他電腦制造商處于另一個極端。
It was an industry that you'd expect to be innovative, but instead it was dominated by cheaply designed generic boxes.
人們以為計算機行業應該充滿創新，但實際上，這一行業充斥著設計粗糙的通用型電腦。
After a few ill-conceived stabs at painting on blue colors and trying new shapes,
在貿然地嘗試過新造型并把電腦噴涂成藍色之后
companies such as Dell, Compaq, and HP commoditized computers by outsourcing manufacturing and competing on price.
戴爾、康柏和惠普這些公司，后來也都將電腦制造外包出去，并展開價格競爭。
With its spunky designs and its pathbreaking applications like iTunes and iMovie, Apple was about the only place innovating.
蘋果憑借大膽的設計和開創性的應用，如iTunes和iMovie，成為唯一有所創新的企業。
