《乔布斯传》英文原著重点词汇笔记（四）【 chapter two 】

Odd Couple 之 The Two Steves

1. all-time           adj.空前的，全部时间的，历来的
While a student in McCollum’s class, Jobs became friends with a graduate who was the teacher’s all-time favorite and a school legend for his wizardry（巫术，魔法） in the class.

2. exalt                 vt.提升，提拔，赞扬，使得意     vi.使人得意
He exalted engineering and looked down on(看不起) those in business, maketing, and sales.

3. aversion         n.厌恶
In addition, he imbued his son with an aversion to exterme ambtion.

4. replicate         v.复制
The challenge he set himself was to replicate the design using the fewest components possible.

5. refer to … as          把…称作
That’s how we started referring to it as the Gream Soda Computer.

6. prank               n.恶作剧
…, just sharing stories — mostly about pranks we’d pulled, …

Odd Couple 之 The Blue Box

7. escapade           n.越轨行为，恶作剧
The ultimate combination of pranks and electronics — and the escapade that helped to create Apple …

8. foreshadow       v.预示，成为…的征兆
…, foreshadowing roles he would paly when they founded Apple.