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| 0:00 | One day, in February 1955, a baby boy was born in a hospital in San Francisco, California, | 一天,1955年2月,一个婴儿男孩出生在加利福尼亚州旧金山的一家医院, |
| 0:08 | in the United States. | 在美国。 |
| 0:10 | His biological parents were very young and did not have the ability to raise a child, | 他的亲生父母很年轻,没有抚养孩子的能力, |
| 0:16 | so they decided to place him for adoption. | 他们决定收养他 |
| 0:20 | A few weeks later, the boy was taken home by an ordinary couple. | 几周后,男孩被一对普通夫妇带回家. |
| 0:24 | His adoptive father was named Paul Jobs, and his adoptive mother was named Clara Jobs. | 他的养父名叫保罗·乔布斯,养母名叫克拉拉·乔布斯. |
| 0:31 | They named the child Steve. | 他们给孩子取名史蒂夫。 |
| 0:33 | Later, this boy would grow up to become one of the most important figures in the history | 后来,这个男孩长大了 成为历史上最重要的人物之一 |
| 0:39 | of technology, Steve Jobs. | 史蒂夫·乔布斯 |
| 0:43 | Steve Jobs' adoptive father was a mechanic. | 史蒂夫・乔布斯的养父是机械师。 |
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| 1 | One day, in February 1955, a baby boy was born in a hospital in San Francisco, California, | 一天,1955年2月,一个婴儿男孩出生在加利福尼亚州旧金山的一家医院, |
| 2 | in the United States. | 在美国。 |
| 3 | His biological parents were very young and did not have the ability to raise a child, | 他的亲生父母很年轻,没有抚养孩子的能力, |
| 4 | so they decided to place him for adoption. | 他们决定收养他 |
| 5 | A few weeks later, the boy was taken home by an ordinary couple. | 几周后,男孩被一对普通夫妇带回家. |
| 6 | His adoptive father was named Paul Jobs, and his adoptive mother was named Clara Jobs. | 他的养父名叫保罗·乔布斯,养母名叫克拉拉·乔布斯. |
| 7 | They named the child Steve. | 他们给孩子取名史蒂夫。 |
| 8 | Later, this boy would grow up to become one of the most important figures in the history | 后来,这个男孩长大了 成为历史上最重要的人物之一 |
| 9 | of technology, Steve Jobs. | 史蒂夫·乔布斯 |
| 10 | Steve Jobs' adoptive father was a mechanic. | 史蒂夫・乔布斯的养父是机械师。 |
| 11 | He did not have a high level of formal education, but he was very good at repairing all kinds | 他没有受过高水平的正规教育,但他很擅长修理各种设备 |
| 12 | of machines. | 机器 机器 机械 |
| 13 | When Jobs was very young, his father often took him to the family garage and showed him | 乔布斯很小的时候,他父亲经常带他到家里的车库给他看 |
| 14 | how to take a machine apart, look at the structure inside, and then slowly put it back together | 如何把机器拆开,看看里面的结构 然后慢慢地把它重新组合起来 |
| 15 | again. | 再来 |
| 16 | For a child, this felt like a kind of game. | 对于一个孩子来说,这感觉就像一种游戏。 |
| 17 | But during these simple moments, Jobs first experienced the joy of technology and creation. | 但在这短暂的时刻,乔布斯首先体验到了技术和创造的喜悦. |
| 18 | His father also often said to him, | 他的父亲也经常对他说, |
| 19 | When you build something, even the parts people cannot see should be done well. | 当你建造的东西, 即使人们看不到的零件 应该做得很好。 |
| 20 | This idea later became an important principle in Jobs' approach to product design. | 这个想法后来成为乔布斯对产品设计方法的重要原则. |
| 21 | Jobs' childhood was not especially smooth. | 乔布斯的童年并不特别顺利。 |
| 22 | In school, he was not the kind of quiet and obedient student. | 在学校里,他不是那种安静和服从的学生。 |
| 23 | Many teachers believed he was very intelligent, but also very rebellious. | 许多教师认为他非常聪明,但也非常叛逆. |
| 24 | He did not like following a fixed routine of learning, and he disliked repeating boring homework. | 他不喜欢遵循固定的学习常规,他不喜欢重复无聊的作业. |
| 25 | Once, because he felt the class was too boring, he even played a prank in the classroom, which | 有一次,因为他觉得班级太无聊了, 他甚至在教室里玩恶作剧, |
| 26 | gave the teacher a lot of trouble. | 给了老师很多麻烦 |
| 27 | However, one teacher noticed his potential. | 然而,一名教师注意到他的潜力。 |
| 28 | She began giving Jobs more challenging tasks and encouraged him to think and ask questions. | 她开始赋予乔布斯更具挑战性的任务,并鼓励他思考和提问. |
| 29 | Gradually, Jobs started to realize that learning was not just about finishing homework, | 乔布斯逐渐意识到 学习不仅仅是完成作业 |
| 30 | but about understanding the world. | 但关于了解世界。 |
| 31 | As he grew up, Jobs developed a strong interest in electronic devices. | 随着他的成长,乔布斯对电子设备产生了浓厚的兴趣. |
| 32 | At that time, during the 1960s, the technology industry in the United States was developing | 当时,在1960年代,美国的技术工业正在发展. |
| 33 | rapidly. | 快点 |
| 34 | More and more electronics companies began appearing in Silicon Valley in California. | 越来越多的电子公司开始出现在加利福尼亚的硅谷. |
| 35 | Jobs often rode his bicycle to the homes of nearby engineers to ask them questions. | 乔布斯经常骑着自行车到附近的工程师家中问他们问题. |
| 36 | Some engineers even gave him electronic parts. | 一些工程师甚至给了他电子零件. |
| 37 | For a teenager with strong curiosity, these small parts were like treasures. | 对于一个有着强烈好奇心的青少年来说,这些小部分就像宝藏一样. |
| 38 | During high school, Jobs met someone who would have a great influence on his life, Steve Wozniak. | 在高中期间,乔布斯遇到了一个会对他的生活产生巨大影响的人史蒂夫·沃兹尼亚克. |
| 39 | Wozniak was a few years older than Jobs and was a true electronics genius. | 沃兹尼亚克比乔布斯大几岁,是真正的电子天才. |
| 40 | He loved designing circuits and computers, while Jobs was better at thinking about how | 他喜欢设计电路和计算机, 而乔布斯更擅长思考如何 |
| 41 | products should be used by people. | 产品应供人们使用。 |
| 42 | The two quickly became close friends. | 两人很快成为了亲密的朋友. |
| 43 | Wozniak could design complex circuits in just a few hours, while Jobs kept asking questions | 沃兹尼亚克可以在短短几个小时内设计复杂的电路,而乔布斯则不断问问题. |
| 44 | like, can this be used by more people? | 这能被更多人使用吗? |
| 45 | Can it become simpler? | 能简单一点吗? |
| 46 | These two different ways of thinking later formed a wonderful partnership. | 这两种不同的思维方式后来形成了一种奇妙的伙伴关系. |
| 47 | After graduating from high school, Jobs entered a college in Oregon. | 高中毕业后,乔布斯进入俄勒冈州的一所学院. |
| 48 | However, the tuition at this school was very expensive. | 然而,这所学校的学费非常昂贵. |
| 49 | Jobs saw how hard his adoptive parents worked to pay for his education, and he felt uneasy. | 乔布斯看到他的养父母为支付他的教育费付出了多大的努力,他感到不安. |
| 50 | After studying for six months, he made a decision that surprised many people. | 在学习了6个月之后,他做出了一个令许多人惊讶的决定. |
| 51 | He dropped out. | 他退学了。 |
| 52 | After dropping out, he did not completely leave the campus. | 退学后,他并没有完全离开校园. |
| 53 | Instead, he began auditing classes that truly interested him. | 相反,他开始审计真正感兴趣的课程。 |
| 54 | One of these classes was a calligraphy course. | 这些课程中有一个是书法课程. |
| 55 | The class taught students how to design beautiful fonts and how to make text look elegant and | 该班教授学生如何设计美丽的字体,如何使文本看起来优雅, |
| 56 | balanced on a page. | 在页面上平衡。 |
| 57 | At the time, this seemed like a course that had nothing to do with the future, but Jobs | 当时,这似乎是一条与未来无关的路线,但乔布斯 |
| 58 | was deeply fascinated by it. | 被它深深的吸引着。 |
| 59 | For the first time, he realized that words were not only information, they could also | 他第一次意识到 语言不仅仅是信息 他们也可以 |
| 60 | be a form of art. | 成为艺术的一种形式。 |
| 61 | Many years later, when Apple computers began designing graphical interfaces, this knowledge | 许多年后,当苹果电脑开始设计图形界面时,这种知识 |
| 62 | about fonts and typography played an important role. | 关于字体和打字,起了重要作用。 |
| 63 | If Jobs had not audited that class, computers today might still use only plain and monotonous | 如果乔布斯没有审计过这一类,今天的计算机可能仍然只使用平淡而单调的 |
| 64 | fonts. | 字体。 |
| 65 | After leaving college, Jobs' life for a time was very simple. | 离开大学后,乔布斯一段时间的生活非常简单. |
| 66 | He did not have a stable income, and sometimes he even collected Coca-Cola bottles and returned | 他没有稳定的收入,有时甚至拿起可口可乐瓶子回来 |
| 67 | them for a few cents so he could buy food. | 买几分钱让他买食物 |
| 68 | But he never stopped searching for his direction in life. | 但他从未停止寻找人生的方向. |
| 69 | He became interested in Eastern philosophy and even traveled to India, hoping to find | 他开始对东方哲学感兴趣 甚至到印度旅行 希望能找到 |
| 70 | the meaning of life. | 生命的意义。 |
| 71 | Although the trip did not give him a clear answer, it made him start thinking about a | 虽然这次旅行没有给他一个明确的答案,但是这让他开始思考一个 |
| 72 | bigger question. | 更大的问题。 |
| 73 | Could technology be combined with human creativity? | 技术能否与人类的创造力相结合? |
| 74 | After returning to the United States, Jobs and Wozniak began working together again. | 回到美国后,乔布斯和沃兹尼亚克再次开始合作. |
| 75 | They started designing a new kind of computer. | 他们开始设计新型的计算机。 |
| 76 | At that time, computers were usually huge machines. | 当时,计算机通常是巨大的机器. |
| 77 | They were expensive and very complicated. | 它们很昂贵而且非常复杂。 |
| 78 | Only companies or universities could use them. | 只有公司或大学才能使用。 |
| 79 | But Jobs believed that computers should become tools that everyone could use. | 但乔布斯认为计算机应该成为每个人都可以使用的工具. |
| 80 | In 1976, they founded a company in the garage of Jobs' parents' home, Apple. | 1976年,他们在乔布斯父母家的车库里创办了一家公司苹果公司. |
| 81 | The company was called Apple because Jobs thought the name was simple, friendly, and | 公司被称为苹果公司,因为乔布斯认为这个名字简单,友好, |
| 82 | easy to remember. | 很容易记起 |
| 83 | Their first product was called the Apple I. | 他们的第一个产品叫做苹果I. |
| 84 | It was not a complete computer like those we see today. | 它不像我们今天看到的那么完整。 |
| 85 | It was only a circuit board, but it could already run programs. | 它只是一个电路板,但它已经可以运行程序。 |
| 86 | Soon they released an improved version called the Apple II. | 很快,他们发布了一个名为Apple II的改进版. |
| 87 | This computer was more stable and could connect to a monitor and keyboard. | 这台计算机比较稳定,可以连接到显示器和键盘. |
| 88 | For the first time, many people realized that computers were no longer only machines in | 许多人第一次意识到 计算机不再是机器了 |
| 89 | laboratories. | 实验室。 |
| 90 | They could become tools in people's homes. | 它们可能成为人们家中的工具。 |
| 91 | Apple quickly became successful. | 苹果迅速获得成功. |
| 92 | In just a few years, the company grew into a large business. | 在短短的几年内,公司发展成为大型企业. |
| 93 | Jobs was not yet 30 years old, but he had already become a millionaire. | 工作还没有30岁,但他已经成为百万富翁。 |
| 94 | However, success also brought new problems. | 然而,成功也带来了新的问题。 |
| 95 | As the company grew larger, disagreements began to appear among the management team. | 随着公司规模的扩大,管理团队中开始出现分歧. |
| 96 | Jobs was a very passionate leader, but he could also be very stubborn. | 乔布斯是一个非常热情的领袖,但他也可能非常固执. |
| 97 | He wanted every product to be perfect. | 他希望每个产品都完美无缺. |
| 98 | While some managers were more concerned with business profits. | 虽然有些管理人员更关心商业利润。 |
| 99 | In 1984, Apple released a historically important computer, the Macintosh. | 1984年,苹果公司发行了历史上重要的计算机Macintosh. |
| 100 | It used a graphical interface and a mouse, which made computers much more intuitive to | 它使用了图形界面和鼠标,这使得计算机更直观到 |
| 101 | use. | 使用时使用。 |
| 102 | However, during internal power struggles within the company, Jobs gradually lost control. | 然而,在公司内部的权力斗争中,乔布斯逐渐失去控制. |
| 103 | In 1985, the board of directors made a decision that shocked the entire technology industry. | 1985年,董事会做出震惊整个技术产业的决定. |
| 104 | Jobs was forced to leave the company he had founded. | 乔布斯被迫离开他创办的公司. |
| 105 | For Jobs, this was one of the most painful periods of his life. | 对乔布斯来说,这是他一生中最痛苦的时期之一. |
| 106 | He later said that at the time he felt like a failure and did not know what he should | 他后来说,当时他觉得自己是个失败者,不知道他应该做什么。 |
| 107 | do next. | 下一个 |
| 108 | But after several months of confusion, he decided to start again. | 但经过几个月的混乱,他决定重新开始. |
| 109 | He founded a new computer company called Next. | 他创办了一家新的计算机公司,名为Next. |
| 110 | This company focused on developing high-performance computers, mainly for education and research | 这家公司专注于开发高性能的计算机,主要用于教育和研究 |
| 111 | institutions. | 机构。 |
| 112 | Although Next's products did not achieve great success in the market, its software | 虽然Next的产品在市场上没有取得巨大成功,但其软件 |
| 113 | technology was very advanced. | 技术非常先进。 |
| 114 | Several years later, these technologies became an important foundation for Apple's operating | 几年后,这些技术成为苹果公司运行的重要基础. |
| 115 | system. | 系统。 |
| 116 | At the same time, Jobs did something that did not seem very important at the time. | 与此同时,乔布斯做了一些在当时看来并不非常重要的事情. |
| 117 | He bought a small animation studio from a film company. | 他从一家电影公司购买了一个小型动画工作室. |
| 118 | This company was later named Pixar. | 这家公司后来被命名为皮克斯. |
| 119 | With Jobs' support, Pixar began experimenting with making animated movies using computers. | 在乔布斯的支持下,皮克斯开始尝试使用计算机制作动画电影. |
| 120 | In 1995, they released a film called Toy Story. | 1995年,他们发布了一部名为"玩具故事"的电影. |
| 121 | It was the first full-length animated movie in the world made entirely with computers. | 它是世界上第一部完全用计算机制作的全长动画电影. |
| 122 | After it was released, the movie achieved huge success and completely changed the animation | 电影上映后取得了巨大成功,彻底改编了动画 |
| 123 | industry. | 工业。 |
| 124 | A few years later, Apple fell into a serious crisis. | 几年后,苹果陷入严重危机. |
| 125 | Its products were confusing, its market share kept falling, and the company even faced the | 其产品令人困惑,其市场份额持续下降,公司甚至面临 |
| 126 | possibility of bankruptcy. | 破产的可能性。 |
| 127 | To save the company, Apple made a decision. | 为了拯救公司,苹果公司做出了决定. |
| 128 | They invited Jobs to return. | 他们邀请乔布斯回国. |
| 129 | In 1997, Jobs came back to Apple. | 1997年,乔布斯回到苹果公司. |
| 130 | After returning, the first thing he did was simplify the company's product line. | 回国后,他首先做的是简化公司的产品线. |
| 131 | He canceled many complicated projects and kept only a few truly important products. | 他取消了许多复杂的项目,只保留了少数真正重要的产品. |
| 132 | Not long afterward, a brightly colored and uniquely designed computer appeared, the iMac. | 不久后,出现了一种明亮的色彩和独特设计的计算机,即iMac. |
| 133 | This computer once again attracted the attention of consumers. | 这台计算机再次引起了消费者的注意. |
| 134 | Soon after that, Apple introduced a music player called the iPod. | 之后不久,苹果公司推出了一个名为iPod的音乐播放器. |
| 135 | The iPod allowed people to carry thousands of songs with them, and it also changed the | iPod允许人们随身携带数千首歌曲,同时也改变了 |
| 136 | entire music industry. | 整个音乐行业 |
| 137 | But the moment when Jobs truly changed the world happened in 2007. | 但乔布斯真正改变世界的时刻发生在2007年. |
| 138 | In that year, he stood on a stage and showed the audience a completely new device, the | 当年,他站在舞台上 向观众展示一个全新的装置,即 |
| 139 | iPhone (英语). | |
| 140 | It was not just a phone. | 这不仅仅是一个电话。 |
| 141 | It combined a music player, an internet browser, and touchscreen operation. | 它结合了音乐播放器,互联网浏览器,和触摸屏操作. |
| 142 | The arrival of the iPhone completely changed the way people used mobile phones and opened | iPhone的到来完全改变了人们使用手机和打开手机的方式 |
| 143 | the era of smartphones. | 智能手机时代. |
| 144 | In the following years, Apple also introduced products such as the iPad. | 在随后的几年里,苹果公司也推出了iPad等产品. |
| 145 | Jobs always insisted on one idea. | 工作总是坚持一个想法。 |
| 146 | Technology should be both powerful and simple. | 技术应该既强大又简单。 |
| 147 | Users did not need to understand complicated technology. | 用户不需要了解复杂的技术。 |
| 148 | They only needed to gently touch the screen to do many things. | 他们只需要轻轻地触摸屏幕就可以做很多事情. |
| 149 | In 2011, Jobs passed away after an illness at the age of 56. | 2011年,乔布斯因病逝世,享年56岁. |
| 150 | Although his life was not very long, the influence he left behind is extremely profound. | 尽管他的生命并不很长,但他留下的影响是极其深远的. |
| 151 | Today, when we pick up our phones, listen to music, watch movies, or browse the internet, | 今天,当我们拿起我们的电话, 听音乐,看电影, 或浏览互联网, |
| 152 | we are actually using technologies that Jobs once dreamed about. | 我们实际上正在使用乔布斯曾经梦想的技术。 |
| 153 | Jobs once said a very famous sentence in a speech, | 乔布斯曾经在一次演讲中说过一句非常有名的话, |
| 154 | Stay hungry, stay foolish. | 忍饥挨饿,忍愚愚. |
| 155 | It means to keep curiosity and keep the spirit of exploration. | 意思是保持好奇心,保持探索精神. |
| 156 | Perhaps it was this spirit that allowed a young man who started a company in a garage | 也许正是这种精神 才允许一个年轻人在车库里创办公司 |
| 157 | to eventually change the entire world. | 最终改变整个世界 |
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