有声英语故事连载：《名人传记》之乔布斯 第58期

故事连载

 

Their products have no spirit to them. Their products have no... sort of spirit of enlightenment about them.

他们的产品没有灵魂和魅力

They are very pedestrian.

太过平庸

And the sad part is that most customers don’t have a lot of that spirit either.

更让人难过的是用户居然毫无察觉

But the way we are going to catch it up... our species, is to take the best, and to spread it around everybody.

但人活着是要追求极致，并分享给同类的

So that everyone grows up with better things, and start to understand the subtleties of these better things.

这样人类才能共同进步，学会欣赏更美的东西

And Microsoft is just... McDonalds. And that’s what saddens me.

微软不过是另一个麦当劳，这才是我难过的原因

 

 

 

Not that Microsoft has won, but that Microsoft products don’t displayed more insight and more creativity.

不是因为微软赢了，而是因为微软的产品缺少创意

So what are you doing about it? Tell us about NeXT.

你打算改变这种局面吗?NeXT有什么计划?

Well, I am not doing anything about it.

暂时没有。

Ok.

哦。

Because NeXT is too small a company to do anything about that, I am just watching it, and there’s really nothing I can do about it.

NeXT太小了，我只能眼睁睁看着，无能为力

Next we talked about NeXT, the company Steve was running in 1995, which Apple was soon to buy.

接着我们聊到Jobs正在经营的NeXT公司

NeXT software would become the heart of Mac in the form of OS10.

NeXT被苹果收购后，很快成为Mac OS10的研发主力