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CHAPTER ONECHILDHOODAbandoned and ChosenThe AdoptionWhen Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his crewmates. They had arrived in San Francisco, where their ship was decommissioned, and Paul bet that he would find himself a wife within two weeks. He was a taut,tattooed engine mechanic, six feet tall, with a passing resemblance to James Dean. But it wasn’t his looks that got him a date with Clara Hagopian, a sweet-humored daughter of Armenian immigrants. It was the fact that he and his friends had a car, unlike the group she had originally planned to go out with that evening. Ten days later, in March 1946, Paul got engaged to Clara and won his wager. It would turn out to be a happy marriage, one that lasted until death parted them more than forty years later.muster[m?st?]?v.集合，收集，鼓起，激起 n.集合，检阅，集合人员，点名册decommission[?di:k?mi??n]?vt. 使退役coast[k?ust]?n. 海岸,海滨,滑坡vt. 沿海岸而行 vi. 下滑guard[gɑ:d]?n. 守卫者,警戒, 护卫队, 保护vt. vi. 保卫,看守,警惕adoption[?d?p??n]?n. 采用, 采纳, 收养abandon[?b?nd?n]?n. 放纵vt. 放弃,遗弃,沉溺San Francisco[?s?nfr?nsisk?u]?n. 旧金山(美国加利福尼亚西部港市)wager[weid??]?n. 赌注 v. 打赌,赌博 vi. 打赌vt. 押注,打赌crewmate同船工作的船员resemblance[rizembl?ns]?n. 相像，相似originally[?rid??n?li]?adv. 本来,原来,最初重要的Clara[kle?r?]?n. 克莱拉(女子名)immigrant[imigr?nt]?n. 移民, 侨民 adj. 移民的taut[t?:t]?adj. 拉紧的, 整洁的, 紧张的wager[weid??]?n. 赌注 v. 打赌,赌博 vi. 打赌vt. 押注,打赌tattoo[t?tu:]?n. vt. (在皮肤上)刺图案, 纹身humor[hju:m?]?n. 幽默,诙谐,心情 v. 迎合,牵就,顺应2012.12.25Paul Reinhold Jobs had been raised on a dairy farm in Germantown, Wisconsin. Even though his father was an alcoholic and sometimes abusive, Paul ended up with a gentle and calm disposition under his leathery exterior. After dropping out of high school, he wandered through the Midwest picking up work as a mechanic until, at age nineteen, he joined the Coast Guard, even though he didn’t know how to swim. He was deployed on the USS General M. C. Meigs and spent much of the war ferryingtroops to Italy for General Patton. His talent as a machinist and firem