VOA慢速英语2011--Steve Jobs Remembered

Technology Report - Steve Jobs Remembered

科技报道 - 缅怀一代巨头乔布斯
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report.
这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。
Steve Jobs made technology fun. The co-founder of Apple died last Wednesday at the age of fifty-six. He had fought for years against cancer. Mourners gathered outside his house in Palo Alto, California, and Apple stores around the world.
乔布斯使科技变得充满乐趣。这位苹果公司的联合创始人上周三去世，享年56岁。他与癌症对抗了多年。悼念者聚集到他在加州帕洛阿尔托的住宅外，以及世界各地的苹果专卖店门口。
Tim Bajarin is president of Creative Strategies, a high-tech¹ research and consulting company.
蒂姆·巴扎林（Tim Bajarin）是一家名为Creative Strategies的高科技研究和咨询公司的总裁。
TIM BAJARIN: "If you actually look at a tech leader, they’re really happy if they have one hit in their life. Steve Jobs has the Apple II, the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad and Pixar.”
巴扎林：“如果你认真审视一位科技领袖，如果在他们的生命中有过一件风靡一时的产品，他们就非常高兴了。乔布斯拥有Apple II（微电脑）,Mac（苹果电脑）, iPod（音乐播放器）, iPhone（手机）, iPad（平板电脑）和Pixar（皮克斯工作室）。”
Steve Jobs was a college dropout². He was adopted by a machinist and his wife, an accountant. They supported his early interest in electronics.
乔布斯是一名大学辍学生。他被分别从事机械师和会计师的一对夫妻收养。养父母支持了乔布斯早期在电子方面的兴趣。
He and his friend Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer -- now just called Apple -- in nineteen seventy-six. They stayed at the company until nineteen eighty-five. That year, Steve Wozniak returned to college and Steve Jobs left in a dispute with the chief executive.
1976年，乔布斯和他的朋友史蒂夫?沃兹尼亚克（Steve Wozniak）创办了苹果电脑公司，也就是现在的苹果公司。他们在公司一直待到了1985年。这一年，沃兹尼亚克重返校园，而乔布斯与公司首席执行官发生争执后离开。
Mr. Jobs then formed his own company, called NeXT Computer. He rejoined Apple in nineteen ninety-seven after it bought NeXT. He helped remake Apple from a business that was in bad shape then to one of the most valuable companies in the world today.
随后乔布斯创办了自己的公司，即NeXT计算机公司。在NeXT被苹果公司收购后，1997年他重返苹果。他帮助苹果从困境中重生，成为了当今世界上最具价值的公司之一。
Steve Wozniak, speaking on CNN, remembered his longtime friend as a "great visionary and leader" and a "marketing³ genius."
沃兹尼亚克在CNN节目中将这位老友视为一位“伟大的远见者和领导者”，一位“营销天才”。
President Obama said in a statement: "By building one of the planet’s most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity⁴. By making computers personal and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun."
奥巴马总统在一份声明中表示：“乔布斯在自己的车库里创建了世界上最成功的公司之一，展示了美国的独创精神。他开创了个人电脑时代并将互联网放进我们的口袋，信息革命也因此来到人们身边，同时还很直观和并富有趣味性。”
David Carroll is a professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City. He says Steve Jobs not only revolutionized technology, he also revolutionized American business.
戴维·卡罗尔（David Carroll）是纽约帕森设计学院的一名教授。他表示乔布斯不仅革新了科技，还革新了美国商业。
DAVID CARROLL: “The fact that he was able to redesign American commerce top to bottom and across is really stunning⁵. He probably will be considered an industrial giant on the scale of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford⁶, so one of the great[s] of all time.”
卡罗尔：事实上他能够再造美国商业，这是非常惊人的。他可能将被视为同爱迪生和福特一个级别的工业巨头，是古往今来最伟大的人物之一。”
Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple's chief executive in August because of his health. He died a day after the company released a new iPhone version that met with limited excitement. Apple's new chief, Tim Cook, will also have to deal with the new Kindle⁷ Fire tablet computer from Amazon.com. It costs less than half as much as an iPad but also does less.
由于个人健康问题，乔布斯8月份辞去苹果总裁一职。他去世前一天，苹果公司发布了反响不大的新版iPhone手机。苹果新任总裁库克还将不得不应对Amazon公司推出的Kindle点燃的平板电脑战火。Kindle价格不到iPad一般，当然功能也少了很多。
And that's the VOA Special English Technology Report, written by June Simms and Avi Arditti. I'm Christopher Cruise.

1 high-tech   

adj.高科技的

参考例句：

• The economy is in the upswing which makes high-tech services in more demand too.经济在蓬勃发展，这就使对高科技服务的需求量也在加大。
• The quest of a cure for disease with high-tech has never ceased. 人们希望运用高科技治疗疾病的追求从未停止过。

2 dropout   

n.退学的学生；退学；退出者

参考例句：

• There is a high dropout rate from some college courses.有些大学课程的退出率很高。
• In the long haul,she'll regret having been a school dropout.她终归会后悔不该中途辍学。

3 marketing   

n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西

参考例句：

• They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
• He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。

4 ingenuity   

n.别出心裁；善于发明创造

参考例句：

• The boy showed ingenuity in making toys.那个小男孩做玩具很有创造力。
• I admire your ingenuity and perseverance.我钦佩你的别出心裁和毅力。

5 stunning   

adj.极好的；使人晕倒的

参考例句：

• His plays are distinguished only by their stunning mediocrity.他的戏剧与众不同之处就是平凡得出奇。
• The finished effect was absolutely stunning.完工后的效果非常美。

6 Ford   

n.浅滩，水浅可涉处；v.涉水，涉过

参考例句：

• They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。
• If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。

7 kindle   

v.点燃，着火

参考例句：

• This wood is too wet to kindle.这木柴太湿点不着。
• A small spark was enough to kindle Lily's imagination.一星光花足以点燃莉丽的全部想象力。