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Among Jobs's quirks was his attitude toward money.
喬布斯的怪癖之一便是對(duì)于金錢的態(tài)度。
When he returned to Apple in 1997, he portrayed himself as a person working for $1 a year,
1997年重回蘋果時(shí)，他把自己描述為這樣一種人：可以為1美元的年薪工作，
doing it for the benefit of the company rather than himself.
為的是公司的利益，而非個(gè)人利益。
Nevertheless he embraced the idea of option megagrants -- granting huge bundles of options to buy Apple stock at a preset price
但是，他卻對(duì)授予大量以一個(gè)既定價(jià)格購(gòu)買蘋果股票的權(quán)利推崇備至，
that were not subject to the usual good compensation practices of board committee reviews and performance criteria.
這是一種不受慣常的董事會(huì)審查和業(yè)績(jī)考核約束的巨額期權(quán)激勵(lì)政策。
When he dropped the "interim" in his title and officially became CEO,
當(dāng)他于2000年初甩掉了頭銜中的“臨時(shí)”二字，正式成為了CEO，
he was offered (in addition to the airplane) a megagrant by Ed Woolard and the board at the beginning of 2000;
他從埃德·伍拉德和董事會(huì)那里得到了一大筆期權(quán)（還有那架飛機(jī)）。
defying the image he cultivated of not being interested in money,
有悖于他一直以來(lái)所表現(xiàn)出那種不貪財(cái)?shù)男蜗螅?/div>
he had stunned Woolard by asking for even more options than the board had proposed.
他索要的期權(quán)數(shù)量甚至比董事會(huì)最初的提議還要多，令伍拉德大跌眼鏡。
But soon after he got them, it turned out that it was for naught.
不過(guò)就在他將這些期權(quán)收入囊中后沒(méi)多久，這一切都變得毫無(wú)意義。
Apple stock cratered in September 2000
蘋果股價(jià)于2000年9月一瀉千里，
due to disappointing sales of the Cube plus the bursting of the Internet bubble -- which made the options worthless.
這受累于Cube令人失望的銷量，加之互聯(lián)網(wǎng)泡沫的破裂，這些使得期權(quán)變得一錢不值。
