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2013.1.23Jobs was often bullied, and in the middle of seventh grade he gave his parents an ultimatum. “I insisted they put me in a different school,” he recalled. Financially this was a tough demand. His parents were barely making ends meet, but by this point there was little doubt that they would eventually bend to his will. “When they resisted, I told them I would just quit going to school if I had to go back to Crittenden. So they researched where the best schools were and scraped together every dime and bought a house for $21,000 in a nicer district.”/learning/675603620/ultimatum [??ltimeit?m] ? n. 最后通牒/learning/553185680/tough [t?f] ? adj. 强硬的, 艰苦的, 棘手的, 严厉的 adv. 以强硬的态度 n. 暴徒; 恶棍/learning/675603626/barely [be?li] ? adv. 少量地,几乎不地,勉强/learning/675603629/scrape [skreip] ? n. 刮掉,擦掉,刮擦声 vt. vi. 刮掉,擦掉/learning/673606922/Crittenden Parridge v Crittenden/learning/588770588/bend [bend] ? v. 弯曲, 屈服 n. 弯曲(物), 弯道/learning/675603638/demand [dimɑ:nd] ? n. 要求; 需求 v. 要求, 查问; 需要/learning/675603743/bully [buli] ? n. 欺凌弱小者,土霸,开球 vt. 威胁,恐吓,欺负The move was only three miles to the south, to a former apricot orchard in Los Altos that had been turned into a subdivision of cookie-cutter tract homes. Their house, at 2066 Crist Drive, was one story with three bedrooms and an all-important attached garage with a roll-down door facing the street. There Paul Jobs could tinker with cars and his son with electronics./learning/675606461/Crist [krist] ? n.克里斯特(人名)/learning/643950341/subdivision [s?bdi?vi??n] ? n. 细分, 再分的部分/learning/655487072/orchard [?:t??d] ? n. 果园/learning/655486745/apricot [eiprik?t;eipri?k?t] ? n. 杏子, 杏色 adj. 杏色的/learning/643950362/tract [tr?kt] ? n. 广阔的土地,地域,器官系统,宣传小册子/learning/675606479/cookie-cutter 千篇一律的东西,俗套/learning/568072832/attach [?t?t?] ? v. 附上, 系上, 贴上, 使依恋/learning/628237529/tinker [ti?k?] ? n. 修补匠, 焊锅 n.（爱尔兰语）吉卜赛 vi. 做焊锅匠, 笨拙的修补 vt. 修补，调整，改进/learning/675606566/drive [draiv] ? n. 驾车, 快车道, 推进力, 驱使, 路, 街 [计算机] 驱动器 v. 开车, 驱使, 驾进力Its other significant attribute was tha