《乔布斯传》英文版下载

　　很多人对于乔布斯的认识都是源于苹果，但是他个人的一些做法却引发一些人的批判，这样一个传奇式的人物确实是很容易成为大家争论的对象，这其中的原因相信就是他那高超的智慧和犀利激进的人格所产生的矛盾性。有人说乔布斯给苹果带来的颠覆，给世界带来的改变;也有人说乔布斯是一个的独裁者，不是一个好的，关于这些在乔布斯传英文版都可以体会到。

　　实事求是地说，苹果的成功其实离不开乔布斯性格中的一些特色，无论是被称之为独裁、专制还是其它。正因为他的故事充满了关于创新与个性、领导力和价值观的碰撞，所以他的故事也被引用到各种英文考试，作为阅读背景,尤其是SAT这种涉猎题材范围极广的考试形式，下面给大家提供乔布斯传英文版节选片段，帮助大家读故事，学英语。

　　乔布斯传英文版节选

　　I was hard on people sometimes, probably harder than I needed to be. I remember the time when Reed was six years old, coming home, and I had just fired somebody that day, and I imagined what it was like for that person to tell his family and his young son that he had lost his job. It was hard. But　somebody’s got to do it. I figured that it was always my job to make sure that the team was excellent, and if I didn’t do it, nobody was going to do it.You always have to keep pushing to innovate. Dylan could have sung protest songs forever and probably made a lot of money, but he didn’t. He had to move on, and when he did, by going electric in 1965, he alienated a lot of people.

　　His 1966 Europe tour was his greatest. He would come on and do a set of acoustic guitar, and the audiences loved him. Then he brought out what became The Band, and they would all do an electric set, and the audience sometimes booed. There was one point where he was about to sing “Like a Rolling Stone”and someone from the audience yells “Judas!” And Dylan then says, “Play it fucking loud!” And they did. The Beatles were the same way. They kept evolving, moving, refining their art. That’s what I’ve always tried to do—keep moving. Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you’re not busy being born, you’re busy dying.

　　What drove me? I think most creative people want to express appreciation for being able to take advantage of the work that’s been done by others before us.　I didn’t invent the language or mathematics I use. I make little of my own　　food, none of my own clothes. Everything I do depends on other members of our　species and the shoulders that we stand on. And a lot of us want to contribute　something back to our species and to add something to the flow. It’s about　trying to express something in the only way that most of us know how—because　we can’t write Bob Dylan songs or Tom Stoppard plays. We try to use the　talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of　all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow.　That’s what has driven me.

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　　One sunny afternoon, when he wasn’t feeling well, Jobs sat in the garden behind　his house and reflected on death. He talked about his experiences in India　almost four decades earlier, his study of Buddhism, and his views on　reincarnation and spiritual transcendence. “I’m about fifty-fifty on believing　in God,” he said. “For most of my life, I’ve felt that there must be more to our　existence than meets the eye.”　He admitted that, as he faced death, he might be overestimating the odds out of　a desire to believe in an afterlife. “I like to think that something survives　after you die,” he said. “It’s strange to think that you accumulate all this　experience, and maybe a little wisdom, and it just goes away. So I really want　to believe that something survives, that maybe your consciousness endures.”　He fell silent for a very long time. “But on the other hand, perhaps it’s like　an on-off switch,” he said. “Click! And you’re gone.”Then he paused again and smiled slightly. “Maybe that’s why I never liked to put　on-off switches on Apple devices.”

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