有声英语故事连载：《名人传记》之乔布斯 第11期

At first people said, digital animation, impossible.

最初人们认为数字动画简直是天方夜谭

 

What's on your playlist?

你的播放列表里有什么歌

 

Uh, you know, definite, techno, the usual.

你知道的 电子舞曲之类的

 

Before Steve Jobs did the word play list exist?

在史蒂夫·乔布斯之前有"播放列表"这个词吗

 

When I was a radio DJ we used play lists.

我当电台DJ那会儿我们就用播放列表

 

All right ,never mind.

好吧 不说这个了

 

He did gave us an entirely new way to listen to music.

他的确让我们以一种全新的方式来听音乐

 

 

He didn't invent the MP3 player.

他并没有发明MP3播放器

 

He just saw possibilities in it that others had overlooked.

他只是发现了那些被别人忽视的可能性

 

He made it simple, sturdy and sexy.

他让它变得简洁 坚固和漂亮

 

Look at this thing.

看看这小家伙

 

And he didn't just change the way we listen to music

他改变的不仅仅是我们听音乐的方式

 

he changed the entire music business.

而是整个音乐产业

 

He changed...well everything.

其实他改变了...一切

 

Steve Jobs came of age in the heyday of rock n' roll

史蒂夫·乔布斯经历过摇滚乐的全盛时期

 

and he was a music junky.

而且他自己也是个乐迷

 

He was a fanatic about Bob Dylan and the Beatles.

他是鲍勃·迪伦和披头士的粉丝

 

And I think that love for music really shaped some of his interests as he returned to CEO of Apple and thought about he could revitalize the company.

而且我认为他对音乐的那份热爱在他重回苹果CEO之位后影响了他复兴苹果的决策

 

As Jobs' begins his second tour at Apple in the late '90s,

当乔布斯于九十年代末回归苹果后

 

he fuses his two lifelong passions music and computers to created a revolutionary new gadget.

他将人生中的两大最爱 电脑与音乐融合到一起 创造了一个革命性的新产品

 

 

 

This amazing little device holds 1,000 songs.

这个神奇的小设备可以储存一千首歌

 

It fits right in my pocket.

刚好可以放进我的口袋

 

In October of 2001, Apple launches the iPod,

苹果于2001年10月推出iPod

 

the rock star of all music players.

它立刻变成音乐播放器中的超级明星

 

This thing was not just a music player.

这不仅仅是个音乐播放器

 

It was a sculpture.

简直就是一件艺术品

 

It was something that you wanted to touch it and interact with it.

你会情不自禁地想触碰 想使用

 

The latest fruit of the apple tree immediately becomes an object of lust.

"苹果"树结出最新果实立刻变成人人向往的单品

 

You didn't know you wanted it until you saw it in your friends' hand

你不知道你想要它 直到看见你朋友拿着它

 

and all of a sudden you realize how great it was.

然后突然间你意识到它真的很棒

 

How exciting.

令人兴奋

 

It's so convenient to have all of your music in your pocket.

很便捷 可以把所有歌曲放到口袋里

 

Just crazy.

太神奇了

 

It was great.

太厉害了

 

Like the coolest thing, I don't Know,to hit my pocket in a while.

可以说是我口袋里装的最酷的东西