乔布斯传 第463期:蒂姆·库克(4)

 　　Cook, the son of a shipyard worker, was raised in Robertsdale, Alabama, 库克是一个造船厂工人的儿子，在亚拉巴马州的罗伯茨代尔长大，

　　a small town between Mobile and Pensacola a half hour from the Gulf¹ Coast. 这是一个位于莫比尔市和彭萨科拉市之间的小镇，距离墨西哥湾大约半小时的路程。

　　He majored in industrial engineering at Auburn, got a business degree at Duke, 库克先是在奥本大学学习工业工程，随后又在杜克大学取得了管理学学位，

　　and for the next twelve years worked for IBM in the Research Triangle of North Carolina. 在接下来的12年里，他在北卡罗来纳州的三角研究园为IBM工作。

　　When Jobs interviewed him, he had recently taken a job at Compaq. 乔布斯面试他的时候，库克刚刚得到康柏公司的工作。

　　He had always been a very logical engineer, 他一直是位逻辑严谨的工程师，

　　and Compaq then seemed a more sensible career option, but he was snared³ by Jobs's aura. 康柏公司的职位似乎是一个更加理性的选择，但是他被乔布斯放出的光芒吸引了。

　　"Five minutes into my initial interview with Steve, I wanted to throw caution and logic² to the wind and join Apple," he later said. “在我第一次面试中，5分钟之内我就决定把谨慎和逻辑都拋在脑后，我要加入苹果。”他后来说，

　　"My intuition told me that joining Apple would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work for a creative genius." “我的直觉告诉我，加入苹果、为一个创意天才工作,这是我这一生唯一的机会。”

　　And so he did. "Engineers are taught to make a decision analytically⁴, 于是他辞职加入了苹果。“工程师应该是通过理性的分析去作出决定，

　　but there are times when relying on gut⁵ or intuition is most indispensable." 但是难免会出现依赖内心直觉的时刻。”

1 gulf   

n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂

参考例句：

• The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
• There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。

2 logic   

n.逻辑(学)；逻辑性

参考例句：

• What sort of logic is that?这是什么逻辑？
• I don't follow the logic of your argument.我不明白你的论点逻辑性何在。

3 snared   

v.用罗网捕捉，诱陷，陷害( snare的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He snared a job with IBM. 他以巧妙的手段在 IBM 公司谋得一职。 来自辞典例句
• The hunter snared a skunk. 猎人捕得一只臭鼬。 来自辞典例句

4 analytically   

adv.有分析地，解析地

参考例句：

• The final requirement,'significant environmental impact", is analytically more difficult. 最后一个规定“重大的环境影响”，分析起来是比较困难的。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
• The overwhelming majority of nonlinear differential equations are not soluble analytically. 绝大多数非线性微分方程是不能用解析方法求解的。

5 gut   

n.[pl.]胆量；内脏；adj.本能的；vt.取出内脏

参考例句：

• It is not always necessary to gut the fish prior to freezing.冷冻鱼之前并不总是需要先把内脏掏空。
• My immediate gut feeling was to refuse.我本能的直接反应是拒绝。