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Jobs's obstinacy lasted for nine months after his October 2003 diagnosis.
自2003年10月腫瘤確診以來，喬布斯頑固地堅(jiān)持了9個(gè)月。
Part of it was the product of the dark side of his reality distortion field.
這部分是因?yàn)槠洮F(xiàn)實(shí)扭曲力場的不良影響。
"I think Steve has such a strong desire for the world to be a certain way that he wills it to be that way," Levinson speculated.
“我覺得，史蒂夫強(qiáng)烈渴望世界按照自己所設(shè)想的那樣運(yùn)行，”萊文森推測道。
"Sometimes it doesn't work. Reality is unforgiving."
“有時(shí)這是行不通的，現(xiàn)實(shí)是無情的?！?/div>
The flip side of his wondrous ability to focus was his fearsome willingness to filter out things he did not wish to deal with.
另一部分原因則在于，喬布斯有著可怕的意志，能夠完全忽略自己不想處理的事情。
This led to many of his great breakthroughs, but it could also backfire.
這給他帶來了許多重大突破，但也可能造成適得其反的效果。
"He has that ability to ignore stuff he doesn't want to confront," Powell explained. "It's just the way he's wired."
“他能夠忽略自己不想面對的東西，”他的妻子解釋說，“他天生就是這樣?！?/p>
Whether it involved personal topics relating to his family and marriage,
無論是與家庭和婚姻有關(guān)的個(gè)人問題，
or professional issues relating to engineering or business challenges,
還是涉及工程或業(yè)務(wù)的專業(yè)問題，
or health and cancer issues, Jobs sometimes simply didn't engage.
或是癌癥和健康問題，喬布斯有時(shí)干脆就置之不理。
In the past he had been rewarded for what his wife called his "magical thinking"
喬布斯認(rèn)為自己能把事情變成所希望的樣子，他妻子稱這為“異想天開”，
his assumption that he could will things to be as he wanted. But cancer does not work that way.
以前，他也的確能夠如愿以償，然而他的癌癥卻是個(gè)例外。
Powell enlisted everyone close to him, including his sister Mona Simpson, to try to bring him around.
鮑威爾發(fā)動(dòng)了喬布斯所有親近的人，包括他的妹妹莫娜·辛普森，想要讓他回心轉(zhuǎn)意。
In July 2004 a CAT scan showed that the tumor had grown and possibly spread. It forced him to face reality.
最終，2004年7月，CAT掃描結(jié)果顯示腫瘤已長大并可能擴(kuò)散。這令他不得不面對現(xiàn)實(shí)。
Jobs underwent surgery on Saturday, July 31, 2004, at Stanford University Medical Center.
2004年7月31日，周六，喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)醫(yī)學(xué)中心接受了外科手術(shù)。
He did not have a full "Whipple procedure," which removes a large part of the stomach and intestine as well as the pancreas.
他所進(jìn)行的并非是完整的“惠普爾手術(shù)”--切除大部分胃和腸道，及全部胰臟。
The doctors considered it, but decided instead on a less radical approach,
醫(yī)生們考慮過實(shí)施完整的手術(shù)，但最終決定不采用如此徹底的做法，
a modified Whipple that removed only part of the pancreas.
而只是切除了喬布斯的部分胰臟。
