《乔布斯传》英文原著重点词汇笔记（三）【 chapter one】

Abandoned and Chosen 之 School

1. nurture             n.养育，教养，（总称）环境因素   v.培养，促进，养育，培养，滋养
It also soon became clear that Jobs, by both nature and nurture, was not disposed to accept authority.

2. bristliness         n.易怒
He was already starting to show the admixture of sentitivity and intensitivity, bristliness and detachment, that would mark him for the rest of life.

3. reciprocate         v.互换，酬答，报答
She reciprocated by getting him a hobby kit for grinding a lens and making a camera.

4. macho                  n.男子气概
Knives were regularly brought to school as a show of macho.

5. ultimatum             n.最后通牒
Jobs was often bullied, and in the middle of seventh grade he gave his parents an ultimatum.

6. dime                        n.十分硬币，小钱
So they researched where the best schools were and scraped together every dime …

7. flower                      v.快速发展，繁荣，兴旺，开花
He also flowered intellectually during his last two years in …

8. phenomenal             adj.非凡的
When I was a senior I had this phenomenal AP. English class.