《乔布斯传》英文原著重点词汇笔记（七）【 chapter five】

Turn On, Boot Up, Jack In … 之 Machines of Loving Grace

1. subculture           n.亚文化圈
There was a hacker subculture — filled with wireheads, phreakers, cyberpunks, hobbyists, and just plain geeks — that included engineers who don’t conform to the HP mold and their kids who weren’t attuned to the wavelengths of the subdivisions…

2. graphical user interfaces           简称GUI，用户图形界面

3. ominous                adj.预兆的，不吉利的
Many in the counterculture saw computers as ominous and Grwellian, the province of the Pentagon and the power structure.

4. hitchhike               v.搭乘；搭顺风车旅行

5. solder                     v.焊接

Turn On, Boot Up, Jack In … 之 Apple Is Born

6. itimidate                 v.吓人，恫吓，威胁
It sounded fun, spirited, not intimidating.

7. enlist                        v.征募
So he enlisted his friend Ron Wayne, …

8. mesmerize                v.施催眠术；迷住；以魅力迫使
He could be charismatic, even mesmerizing(令人着迷的), …

9. by virtue of                由于，凭借
By virtue of a re-assessment of understandings by and between all parties, …

10. rhetorical                 adj. (与)修辞(有关)的；反问的，反诘的；巧辩的，说话虚夸的
It was a rhetorical flourish he would use at product presentations over the ensuing decades.

11. cash on delivery         货到付款
For that he was willing to pay about $500 apiece, cash on delivery.

12. tired                           adj.破旧的【常用义：疲倦的】
…, held in a tired hotel on the decaying boardwolk of Atlantic City, …

13. acronym                     n.缩略词
…, he recalled, “using businesslike acronyms we’d never heard before.”