《乔布斯传》英文原著重点词汇笔记（十）【 chapter eight】

Xebox and Lisa 之 A new baby

1. flop                      v.(指书、戏剧等)彻底失败，不成功【一看到这个词，我就想到扑街】
When the Apple III began shipping(发货，上市) in May 1980, it flopped.

2. psychiatrist          n.精神病医生
The names Jobs chose for it would have caused even the most jaded psychiatrist to do a double take: the Lisa.

3. straightforward                adj.简单的，易懂的；(人或态度)正直的，坦率的，老实的
Without the wizardry of Wozniak, who was still working quietly on the Apple II, the engineers began producing a straightforward computer …

4. infuse                      v.灌输；把(某种素质)注入…
There was, however, one programmer who was infusing the project with some life: Bill Atkinson.

5. invent                      v.创造，发明
We are inventing the future.

Xebox and Lisa 之 Xerox PARC【施乐公司】

6. visionary                 n.梦想家，空想家，有远见卓识的人    adj.有眼光的，有远见的；空想的
Among its visionaries was the scientist Alan Kay, who had two great maxims (格言，座右铭) that Jos embraced: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it " and …

7. gorgeous                 adj.极好的，称心的，非常漂亮的，华美的
This uses a lot of computing power, but it permits gorgeous graphics, fonts, and gee-whiz screen displays.

8. object-oriented programming language                 面向对象编程语言

9. prototype                 n.原型，雏形，蓝本
Bitmapping and graphical interfaces became features of Xerox PARC’s prototype computers(样机) …

10. venture captial division              风投部门
Xerox’s venture captical division wanted to be part of the second round of Apple financing during the summer of 1979.

11. veil                           n.面纱
" It was like a veil being lifted from my eyes ", Jobs recalled. " I could see what the future of computing was destined to be. "

12. appliance                n.家用电器
It was the breakthrough he had been looking for: bringing computers to the people, with the cheerful but affordable design of an Eichler home and the ease of use of a sleek kitchen appliance.

13. take to implement                

" How long would this take to implement ? " he asked. 【这个需要多久才能实现呢？】

Xebox and Lisa 之 Great Artists Steal

14. chronicle                 n. 编年史     v. 把……载入编年史，按事件顺序记载；翔实记载
The Apple raid(抢劫，突袭) on Xerox PARC is sometimes describled as one of the biggest heists(盗窃，抢劫) in the chronicles of industry.

15. endorse                    v.赞同，认可
Jobs occasionally endorsed this view, with pride. As once he said, “Picasso had a saying — ‘good artists copy, great artists steal.’ (好的艺术家抄袭创意，伟大的艺术家窃取灵感.)— and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”

16. figure out                  解决，弄明白，搞清楚
The hardware folks grumbled(抱怨), but then went off and figured it out.

17. resent                         v.痛恨
But John Couch and the other professional engineers on his Lisa team, many of them buttoned-down(守旧的) HP types, resented Jobs’s meddling(干涉) …

18. clash                            n.冲突
There was a clash of visions.

19. strip                             v.剥去，剥夺；脱去衣服   n.带，条状；脱衣舞
He was also stripped of his role as vice president for research and development.