乔布斯,英文版,笔记2013.1.19.docx

2013.1.19Another layer of awareness occurred soon after. Not only did he discover that he was brighter than his parents, but he discovered that they knew this. Paul and Clara Jobs were loving parents, and they were willing to adapt their lives to suit a son who was very smart—and also willful. They would go to great lengths to accommodate him. And soon Steve discovered this fact as well. “Both my parents got me. They felt a lot of responsibility once they sensed that I was special. They found ways to keep feeding me stuff and putting me in better schools. They were willing to defer to my needs.”So he grew up not only with a sense of having once been abandoned, but also with a sense that he was special. In his own mind, that was more important in the formation of his personality./learning/668250686/defer [dif?:] ? vt. 延期, 缓召, 把...委托给他人 vi. 耽搁, 延误, 遵从/learning/668250692/accommodate [?k?m?deit] ? vi. 使自己适应 vt. 使一致，和解；提供方便；容纳；顾及/learning/668250698/responsibility [ri,sp?ns?bil?ti] ? n. 责任, 可信度，责任心/learning/668250707/adapt [?d?pt] ? vt. 使适应,改编 vi. 适应，适合/learning/668250713/formation [f?:mei??n] ? n. 构造,编队,形成/learning/668250719/willful [wilful] ? adj. 任性的, 故意的, 有意的/learning/615829745/awareness [?w??nis] ? n. 认识(了解,知道)/learning/635212817/personality [?p?:s?n?liti] ? n. 个性, 名人, 特色/learning/668251895/feed [fi:d] ? n. 饲养,饲料,一餐 vt. 喂,饲养,靠...为生 vi. 进食SchoolEven before Jobs started elementary school, his mother had taught him how to read. This, however, led to some problems once he got to school. “I was kind of bored for the first few years, so I occupied myself by getting into trouble.” It also soon became clear that Jobs, by both nature and nurture, was not disposed to accept authority. “I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.”/learning/668259647/dispose [disp?uz] ? vt. 倾向于,处置 vi. 销毁/learning/668259653/authority [?:θ?riti] ? n.