乔布斯,英文笔记,2013.3.8.docxVIP

2013.3.8 Kottke found Kobun amusing. “His English was atrocious,” he recalled. “He would speak in a kind of haiku, with poetic, suggestive phrases. We would sit and listen to him, and half the time we had no idea what he was going on about. I took the whole thing as a kind of lighthearted interlude.” Holmes was more into the scene. “We would go to Kobun’s meditations, sit on zafu cushions, and he would sit on a dais,” she said. “We learned how to tune out distractions. It was a magical thing. One evening we were meditating with Kobun when it was raining, and he taught us how to use ambient sounds to bring us back to focus on our meditation.”  HYPERLINK /learning/767157578/ \t _blank atrocious [?tr?u??s] ? adj. 1. 残暴的；残忍的；凶恶的；2. 糟透的；十分讨厌的  HYPERLINK /learning/767157581/ \t _blank suggestive [s?d?estiv;s?d?estiv,s?gd?estiv] ? adj. 提示性的, 影射的, 暗示的  HYPERLINK /learning/767157584/ \t _blank poetic [p?uetik] ? adj. 诗的, 用韵律写的, 富有诗情的  HYPERLINK /learning/767157587/ \t _blank haiku n. 俳句；三行俳句诗  HYPERLINK /learning/599332124/ \t _blank phrase [freiz] ? n. 短语,习语,个人风格,乐句 vt. 措词表达,将(乐曲)分成乐句(来演奏)  HYPERLINK /learning/767157593/ \t _blank lighthearted [laithɑ:tid] ? adj. 心情愉快的，无优无虑的  HYPERLINK /learning/767157743/ \t _blank interlude [int?(:)?lu:d, -lju:d] ? n. 中间, 中间时间, 介在中间的事件  HYPERLINK /learning/736472351/ \t _blank cushion [ku??n] ? n. 垫子, 橡皮软垫, 缓冲 vt. 加垫褥, 放在垫子上, 保护, 减缓, 为...装垫子  HYPERLINK /learning/767157752/ \t _blank ambient [?mbi?nt] ? adj. 周围的,包围着的,(尤指音乐）产生轻松氛围的 n. 环境  HYPERLINK /learning/736464320/ \t _blank meditation [meditei??n] ? n. 沉思,冥想  HYPERLINK /learning/767157758/ \t _blank dais [deiis] ? n. 讲台  HYPERLINK /learning/724225094/ \t _blank tune [tju:n] ? n. 旋律,音准,数量 vt. 调音(频),调节,使和谐 vi. 和谐,调频 As for Jobs, his devotion was intense. “He became really serious and self-important and just generally unbearable,” according to Kottke. He began meeting with Kobun almost daily, and every few months they went on retreats toget