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Partly due to concern about Jobs's weight loss, Apple's stock price drifted from $188 at the beginning of June 2008 down to $156 at the end of July.
部分緣于對喬布斯體重驟減的憂慮，蘋果的股票價格從2008年6月初的188美元下滑到了7月底的156美元。
Matters were not helped in late August when Bloomberg News mistakenly released its prepackaged obituary of Jobs, which ended up on Gawker.
雪上加霜的是，不久，彭博社誤發了提前準備好的喬布斯的訃告，最后上了Gawker網。
Jobs was able to roll out Mark Twain's famous quip a few days later at his annual music event.
幾天后，喬布斯在他的年度音樂活動上引用了馬克·吐溫的名句：
"Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated," he said, as he launched a line of new iPods.
“關于我死亡的報道是嚴重的夸大。”他在發布新的iPod產品系列時說。
But his gaunt appearance was not reassuring. By early October the stock price had sunk to $97.
但是他那消痩的外形還是讓人無法安心，到10月初，股價跌到了97美元。
That month Doug Morris of Universal Music was scheduled to meet with Jobs at Apple.
當月按照計劃，環球音樂集團的道格·莫里斯要到蘋果公司跟喬布斯會面。
Instead Jobs invited him to his house. Morris was surprised to see him so ill and in pain.
喬布斯改變了計劃，把他請到自己家里。莫里斯驚訝地看到喬布斯的病容和痛苦。
Morris was about to be honored at a gala in Los Angeles for City of Hope, which raised money to fight cancer, and he wanted Jobs to be there.
莫里斯要參加在洛杉磯希望之城國家醫學中心舉辦的一場盛會，為對抗癌癥籌款，他希望喬布斯出席。
Charitable events were something Jobs avoided, but he decided to do it, both for Morris and for the cause.
喬布斯一向回避慈善活動，但是這次他決定出席，既是為了莫里斯，也是因為這個主題。
At the event, held in a big tent on Santa Monica beach, Morris told the two thousand guests that Jobs was giving the music industry a new lease on life.
活動在圣莫妮卡海灘上的大帷篷里舉行，莫里斯告訴2000位來賓，是喬布斯讓音樂產業重新煥發了生機。
The performances -- by Stevie Nicks, Lionel Richie, Erykah Badu, and Akon -- went on past midnight, and Jobs had severe chills.
當晚的演出有史蒂維·尼克斯、萊昂內爾·里奇、埃里卡·巴杜和阿肯獻唱，一直持續到后半夜，喬布斯被凍壞了。
Jimmy Iovine gave him a hooded sweatshirt to wear, and he kept the hood over his head all evening.
吉米·約維內給了他一件帶帽子的毛衣，他整晚都把帽子套在頭上。
"He was so sick, so cold, so thin," Morris recalled.
“他是那么虛弱，那么冷，那么痩。”莫里斯回憶說。
