乔布斯,英文笔记,2013.2.27.docx

2013.2.27Jobs and Kottke became serious vegetarians during their freshman year. “Steve got into it even more than I did,” said Kottke. “He was living off RomanMeal cereal.” They would go shopping at a farmers’ co-op, where Jobs would buy a box of cereal, which would last a week, and other bulk health food. “He would buy flats of dates and almonds and lots of carrots, and he got a Champion juicer and we’d make carrot juice and carrot salads. There is a story about Steve turning orange from eating so many carrots, and there is some truth to that.” Friends remember him having, at times, a sunset-like orange hue.bulk[b?lk]?n. 大部分, 大多数, 大块, 大批, 容积, 体积 vi. 变大, 增加 vt. 膨胀, 出现 adj. 大量的Roman[r?m?]?adj. 罗马的，罗马帝国的 n. 罗马人，罗马天主教会，罗马文字Co-op[k?u?p]?n. 口消费合作社 =cooperativemeal[mi:l]?n. 膳食,一餐,谷物粗粉 vi. 进餐cereal[si?ri?l]?adj. 谷类(的),谷物(的) n. 谷类食物flat[fl?t]?adj. 平坦的, 单调的, 扁平的 adv. 平直地, 干脆地 n. [英]公寓 vt. 变平 vi. 降调almond[ɑ:m?nd]?n. 杏仁carrot[k?r?t]?n. 胡萝卜,报酬,好处hue[hju:]?n. 色, 色彩, 叫声 [计算机] 色调Jobs’s dietary habits became even more obsessive when he read Mucusless Diet Healing System by Arnold Ehret, an early twentieth-century German-born nutrition fanatic. He believed in eating nothing but fruits and starchless vegetables, which he said prevented the body from forming harmful mucus, and he advocated cleansing the body regularly through prolonged fasts. That meant the end of even Roman Meal cereal—or any bread, grains, or milk. Jobs began warning friends of the mucus dangers lurking in their bagels. “I got into it in my typical nutso way,” he said. At one point he and Kottke went for an entire week eating only apples, and then Jobs began to try even purer fasts. He started with two-day fasts, and eventually tried to stretch them to a week or more, breaking them carefully with large amounts of water and leafy vegetables. “After a week you start to feel fantastic,” he said. “You get a ton of vitality from not having to digest all this food. I was in great shape. I felt I could get up and walk to S