喬布斯,英文筆記,201337

1、2013.3.7At one point Jobs was told of a young Hindu holy man who was holding a gathering of his followers at the Himalayan estate of a wealthy businessman. “It was a chance to meet a spiritual being and hang out with his followers, but it was also a chance to have a good meal. I could smell the food

2、 as we got near, and I was very hungry.” As Jobs was eating, the holy manwho was not much older than Jobspicked him out of the crowd, pointed at him, and began laughing maniacally. “He came running over and grabbed me and made a tooting sound and said, You are just like a baby,” recalled Jobs. “I wa

3、s not relishing this attention.” Taking Jobs by the hand, he led him out of the worshipful crowd and walked him up to a hill, where there was a well and a small pond. “We sit down and he pulls out this straight razor. Im thinking hes a nutcase and begin to worry. Then he pulls out a bar of soapI had

4、 long hair at the timeand he lathered up my hair and shaved my head. He told me that he was saving my health.”· gathering 'gæðri   n. 集會(huì), 聚集· maniacally m'naikl   adj. 發(fā)狂的, 狂亂的, 狂熱的 =maniac· estate i'steit   n. 財(cái)產(chǎn),房地產(chǎn),狀態(tài),遺產(chǎn)· Hindu 'hindu:

5、  n. 印度人，印度教信徒 adj. 印度的，與印度有關(guān)的· spiritual 'sprtl   adj. 精神的, 心靈的 n. (尤指美國(guó)南部黑人的)圣歌· Himalayan him'lein   adj. 喜瑪拉雅山的，巨大的· grab græb   n. 抓,接應(yīng),掠奪 vt. &vi. 抓取,搶去，吸引注意 adj. 隨意抓取的· shave eiv   n. 修面,刮胡子 vt. 修面,剃,擦過(guò),消減價(jià)格 vi. 刮胡子,勉強(qiáng)通過(guò)· wors

6、hipful 'w:ipfl   adj. 崇拜的, 虔敬的· razor 'reiz   n. 剃刀· crow kru   n. 啼叫,烏鴉, 歡叫 vi. 啼叫,報(bào)曉,歡叫 vt. 洋洋夸口,自鳴得意· pond pnd   n. 池塘 vt. 堵河成湖 vi. 形成池塘· nutcase 'ntkeis   n. 瘋子· relish 'reli   n. 滋味, 享受, 愛(ài)好, 調(diào)味品 vt. 加調(diào)味料, 享受, 品味 vi. 有滋味·

7、; lather 'læð   n. (肥皂水的)泡沫 v. 起泡沫, 涂上肥皂沫· toot tu:t   n. 發(fā)出鳴聲或嘟嘟聲 v. (使某物）發(fā)嘟嘟聲，<俚>痛飲Daniel Kottke arrived in India at the beginning of the summer, and Jobs went back to New Delhi to meet him. They wandered, mainly by bus, rather aimlessly. By this point Jobs was n

8、o longer trying to find a guru who could impart wisdom, but instead was seeking enlightenment through ascetic experience, deprivation, and simplicity. He was not able to achieve inner calm. Kottke remembers him getting into a furious shouting match with a Hindu woman in a village marketplace who, Jo

9、bs alleged, had been watering down the milk she was selling them.· guru 'guru:;'guu:   n. 古魯(指印度教等宗教的宗師或領(lǐng)袖), 領(lǐng)袖, 專家· deprivation depri'vein   n. 剝奪, 剝奪官職, 免職· mainly 'meinli   adv. 主要地· wisdom 'wizdm   n. 智慧,學(xué)問(wèn)· aimlessly 'eimlisli

10、   adv. 無(wú)目的地，漫無(wú)目的地· impart im'p:t   vt. 傳授, 賦予, 告知· enlightenment in'laitnmnt   n. 啟蒙 n.【佛教】 開(kāi)悟· ascetic 'setik   adj. 禁欲的 n. 苦行者· furious 'fjuris   adj. 狂怒的, 猛烈的· simplicity sim'plisiti   n. 單純, 簡(jiǎn)樸· allege 'led 

11、0; vt. 斷言,宣稱· inner 'in   adj. 內(nèi)部的,里面的,內(nèi)心的 n. 里面,內(nèi)部Yet Jobs could also be generous. When they got to the town of Manali, Kottkes sleeping bag was stolen with his travelers checks in it. “Steve covered my food expenses and bus ticket back to Delhi,” Kottke recalled. He also gave Kottke

12、the rest of his own money, $100, to tide him over.· tide taid   n. 潮,趨勢(shì),潮流 vt. 使.隨潮漂流 vi. 涌動(dòng)· generous 'denrs   adj. 慷慨的,寬宏大量的,豐盛的,味濃的· expense ik'spens   n. 消費(fèi),支出During his seven months in India, he had written to his parents only sporadically, getting mail at

13、the American Express office in New Delhi when he passed through, and so they were somewhat surprised when they got a call from the Oakland airport asking them to pick him up. They immediately drove up from Los Altos. “My head had been shaved, I was wearing Indian cotton robes, and my skin had turned

14、 a deep, chocolate brown-red from the sun,” he recalled. “So Im sitting there and my parents walked past me about five times and finally my mother came up and said Steve? and I said Hi!”· shave eiv   n. 修面,刮胡子 vt. 修面,剃,擦過(guò),消減價(jià)格 vi. 刮胡子,勉強(qiáng)通過(guò)· rob rb, rb   v. 搶劫 vi. 搶劫,盜竊 vt. 非法剝奪,使

15、喪失,搶劫· chocolate 'tklit   n. 巧克力, 巧克力糖, 巧克力飲品 adj. 巧克力的, 有巧克力糖衣的, 巧克力色的· sporadically   adv. 偶發(fā)地, 零星地· somewhat 'sm(h)wt   pron. 一些,某物 adv. 多少,幾分· Oakland 'uklnd   n. 奧克蘭(美國(guó)加利福尼亞州西部城市)They took him back home, where he continued trying to find himse

16、lf. It was a pursuit with many paths toward enlightenment. In the mornings and evenings he would meditate and study Zen, and in between he would drop in to audit physics or engineering courses at Stanford.· audit ':dit   n. 查帳,審計(jì) vt. 審計(jì),旁聽(tīng)· enlightenment in'laitnmnt   n.

17、啟蒙 n.【佛教】 開(kāi)悟· meditate 'mediteit   v. 想, 考慮, 計(jì)劃· pursuit p'sju:t   n. 追求, 追趕, 工作The SearchJobss interest in Eastern spirituality, Hinduism, Zen Buddhism, and the search for enlightenment was not merely the passing phase of a nineteen-year-old. Throughout his life he would

18、 seek to follow many of the basic precepts of Eastern religions, such as the emphasis on experiential prajñ, wisdom or cognitive understanding that is intuitively experienced through concentration of the mind. Years later, sitting in his Palo Alto garden, he reflected on the lasting influence o

19、f his trip to India:Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a cultural shock than going to India. The people in the Indian countryside dont use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. Intuition is

20、 a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. Thats had a big impact on my work.· experiential ikspiri'enl;ikspiri'enl   adj. 經(jīng)驗(yàn)的, 憑經(jīng)驗(yàn)的· cognitive 'kgnitiv   adj. 認(rèn)知的,認(rèn)識(shí)的,有認(rèn)識(shí)力的· religion ri'lidn   n. 宗教;宗教信仰· merely 'mili

21、  adv. 僅僅,只不過(guò)· precept 'pri:sept   n. 教訓(xùn), 告誡, 訓(xùn)誡· spirituality spiritju'æliti   n. 精神性, 靈性· Buddhism 'budizm   n. 佛教· hinduism 'hindu:iz()m   n. 印度教· alto 'æltu   n. 男最高音, 女最低音，中音部，中音樂(lè)器 adj. 中音部的· impact 'i

22、mpækt; v.im'pækt   n. 沖擊(力), 沖突, 影響(力) vt. 擠入, 壓緊; 撞擊; 對(duì).發(fā)生影響· intuitively in'tju:itivli   adv. 直覺(jué)地, 直觀地· cultural 'kltr()l   adj. 文化的,和養(yǎng)動(dòng)植物有關(guān)的· Palo   n. 帕洛· concentration knsen'trein   n. 集中, 專心, 濃度· intellect 'intilek

23、t   n. 智力，思維邏輯領(lǐng)悟力，理解力/nn. 知識(shí)份子，智力高的人，才智超群的人Western rational thought is not an innate human characteristic; it is learned and is the great achievement of Western civilization. In the villages of India, they never learned it. They learned something else, which is in some ways just as valuable but

24、 in other ways is not. Thats the power of intuition and experiential wisdom.· experiential ikspiri'enl;ikspiri'enl   adj. 經(jīng)驗(yàn)的, 憑經(jīng)驗(yàn)的· innate 'ineit   adj. 天生的,固有的· intuition intju(:)'in   n. 直覺(jué), 直覺(jué)的知識(shí)· wisdom 'wizdm   n. 智慧,學(xué)問(wèn)· civiliza

25、tion sivilai'zein;-li'z-   n. 文明,文化· rational 'rænl   adj. 合理的,理性的,能推理的 n. 有理數(shù)Coming back after seven months in Indian villages, I saw the craziness of the Western world as well as its capacity for rational thought. If you just sit and observe, you will see how restle

26、ss your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, theres room to hear more subtle thingsthats when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see

27、a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. Its a discipline; you have to practice it.· capacity k'pæsiti   n. 能力, 容量, 容積; 資格, 職位 adj. (達(dá)到最大容量)滿的· restless 'restlis   adj. 不安寧的, 焦慮的· craziness 'kreizinis   n. 瘋狂&#

28、183; blossom 'blsm   n. 花,開(kāi)花,全盛期 vi. 開(kāi)花,成長(zhǎng)· expanse iks'pæns   n. 蒼天，寬闊的區(qū)域, 廣闊· tremendous tri'mends   adj. 巨大的, 驚人的· subtle 'stl   adj. 微妙的,敏感的,精細(xì)的,狡詐的,不明顯的Zen has been a deep influence in my life ever since. At one point I was thinking about

29、going to Japan and trying to get into the Eihei-ji monastery, but my spiritual advisor urged me to stay here. He said there is nothing over there that isnt here, and he was correct. I learned the truth of the Zen saying that if you are willing to travel around the world to meet a teacher, one will appear next door.· monastery 'mnstri   n.