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2013.1.10Across the street from the Jobs family lived a man who had become successful as a real estate agent. “He wasn’t that bright,” Jobs recalled, “but he seemed to be making a fortune. So my dad thought, ‘I can do that.’ He worked so hard, I remember. He took these night classes, passed the license test, and got into real estate. Then the bottom fell out of the market.” As a result, the family found itself financially strapped for a year or so while Steve was in elementary school. His mother took a job as a bookkeeper for Varian Associates, a company that made scientific instruments, and they took out a second mortgage. One day his fourth-grade teacher asked him, “What is it you don’t understand about the universe?” Jobs replied, “I don’t understand why all of a sudden my dad is so broke.” He was proud that his father never adopted a servile attitude or slick style that may have made him a better salesman. “You had to suck up to people to sell real estate, and he wasn’t good at that and it wasn’t in his nature. I admired him for that.” Paul Jobs went back to being a mechanic./learning/653862083/strapped [str?pt] ? adj. 用皮绳捆住的，用皮带装饰的，身无分文的动词strap的过去式和过去分词形式/learning/553225547/estate [isteit] ? n. 财产,房地产,状态,遗产/learning/653862089/license [lais?ns] ? n. 批准,许可证,特许 vt. 允许,特许/learning/653862092/bottom [b?t?m] ? n. 底部;臀部;船身;水底;服装下面的部分;低洼地;底色;尽头 adj. 底部的 vt. 给...装底,建立基础,到达底部 vi. 到达底部,垫底，降到最低点/learning/653862095/agent [eid??nt] ? n. 代理人, 代理商, 特工人员, 药剂/learning/653862098/financially [fain?n??li] ? adv. 财政上(金融上)/learning/653862968/mortgage [m?:gid?] ? n.v. 抵押/learning/512007623/associate [?s?u?ieit] ? n. 同伴, 伙伴, 合伙人 n. 准学士学位获得者 vt. 联合, 联想 vi. 加入; 陪同 adj. 副的; 有联系的, 共事的/learning/653862974/universe [ju:niv?:s] ? n. 宇宙/learning/653862977/servile [s?:vail] ? adj. 卑屈的, 奴隶的/learning/653862980/strap [str?p] ? n. 绳, 皮带, 镣铐, 皮鞭 vt. 用绳索捆扎, 系住, 鞭笞, 磨快/learning/653862983/Varian ? n. 瓦里安核子旋进磁力仪/learning/653862986/broke [br?uk] ? adj. 一文不名的 vt. vi. break的过去式,打破,断掉/learning/653863085/admir