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Making matters worse was a June 2001 cover story in Fortune about overcompensated CEOs, "The Great CEO Pay Heist."
雪上加霜的是，《財富》雜志2001年6月刊登了一篇題為“薪酬大盜CEO”的封面報道，直指CEO薪酬過高的問題。
A mug of Jobs, smiling smugly, filled the cover.
那期雜志的封面上就是洋洋得意的喬布斯。
Even though his options were underwater at the time,
雖然他所持有的期權此時并無價值，
the technical method of valuing them when granted (known as a Black-Scholes valuation) set their worth at $872 million.
但在這些期權被授予的當時，技術估值方法（被稱為“布萊克-斯科爾斯估值法”）給它們的定價是8.72億美元。
Fortune proclaimed it "by far" the largest compensation package ever granted a CEO.
《財富》聲稱這“絕對是”有史以來給予CEO的最豐厚的一筆報酬。
It was the worst of all worlds:
真是悲慘至極。
Jobs had almost no money that he could put in his pocket for his four years of hard and successful turnaround work at Apple,
用4年的艱辛工作帶領蘋果成功復蘇的喬布斯兜里幾乎沒有一分錢，
yet he had become the poster child of greedy CEOs, making him look hypocritical and undermining his self-image.
此時卻成了貪婪CEO的典型代表，這讓他看起來像是一個偽君子，也損苦了他的自我形象。
He wrote a scathing letter to the editor, declaring that his options actually "are worth zero"
他給編輯寫了一封言辭激烈的信，表示自己的期權實際上“價值為零”，
and offering to sell them to Fortune for half of the supposed $872 million the magazine had reported.
既然《財富》報道的價值是8.72億美元，他愿意打個五折把這些期權賣給《財富》。
In the meantime Jobs wanted the board to give him another big grant of options, since his old ones seemed worthless.
與此同時，鑒于舊的期權看起來已經一文不值，喬布斯希望董事會能授予他另外一大筆期權。
He insisted, both to the board and probably to himself,
他對董事會堅稱，既對董事會，也可能對他自己，
that it was more about getting proper recognition than getting rich.
這樣做更多的是為了獲得應有的認可，而不是發大財。
"It wasn't so much about the money," he later said in a deposition in an SEC lawsuit over the options.
“這跟錢并沒有多大的關系。”后來在證券交易委員會就這些期權提起的一起訴訟中，喬布斯在作證時說了這樣一句話。
"Everybody likes to be recognized by his peers... I felt that the board wasn't really doing the same with me."
“每一個人都希望得到其他人的認可...我覺得董事會當時并沒有真正地認可我。”
He felt that the board should have come to him offering a new grant, without his having to suggest it.
由于他的期權已經沒有價值，他認為董事會應該主動向他提出新的股權激勵，而不是等他開口索要。
"I thought I was doing a pretty good job. It would have made me feel better at the time."
“我認為我的工作很出色，這會讓我感覺好一些。”
