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Steven P. Jobs, the Apple Inc. (AAPL) chairman and co-founder who pioneered the personal computer industry and changed the way people think about technology, died Wednesday.
苹果公司（Apple Inc.）董事长、公司创始人之一乔布斯（Steven P. Jobs）于周三去世。他是个人电脑行业的先驱，改变了人们对科技的思考方式。
'Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countlessinnovations that enrich and improve all of our lives,' Apple said in a statement. 'The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.'
苹果在一份声明中说，乔布斯的才华、激情和精力是无数创新的来源，这些创新丰富和改善了我们所有人的生活；这个世界因为乔布斯而无限美好。
During his more than three decade-long career, Mr. Jobs transformed Silicon Valley as he helped turn the once sleepyexpanse of fruit orchards into the technology industry's innovation center. In addition to laying the groundwork for the modern high-tech industry alongside other pioneers like Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates and Oracle Corp. (ORCL) founder Larry Ellison, Mr. Jobs proved the appeal of well-designed intuitive products over the sheer power of technology itself and shifted the way consumers interact with technology in an increasingly digital world.
在三十多年的职业生涯中，乔布斯改变了硅谷，帮助这片曾经广袤荒凉的果园变成科技行业的创新中心。与微软公司（Microsoft Corp.）创始人之一盖茨（Bill Gates）和甲骨文公司（Oracle Corp.）创始人埃里森（Larry Ellison）一道，乔布斯为现代高科技产业奠定了基础。此外，他还证明了，具有视觉冲击力的设计优良产品比仅凭科技本身之力的产品更有吸引力，他同时改变了消费者在日益数字化的世界里与科技互动的方式。
Unlike those men, however, the most productive chapter in Mr. Jobs' career occurred near the end of his life, when a nearly unbroken string of innovative and wildly successful products like the iPod, iPhone and iPad fundamentally changed the PC, electronics and digital media industries. The way he marketed and sold those products through savvy advertising campaigns and its retail stores, in the meanwhile, helped turn the company into a pop culture icon.
然而，与盖茨和埃里森不同的是，乔布斯职业生涯中最具成效的篇章出现在他即将走到生命尽头之时，iPod、iPhone和iPad等一连串大获成功的创新产品从根本上改变了个人电脑、电子产品和数字媒体行业。与此同时，他通过精心策划的广告攻势和开设零售店的方式推广和销售这些产品，帮助苹果公司成为了流行文化偶像。
At the beginning of that phase, Mr. Jobs once described his philosophy as trying to make products that were at 'the intersection of art and technology.'
在这一阶段开始的时候，乔布斯曾将他的哲学描述为试图生产出处于"艺术和科技交汇点"的产品。
In doing so, he turned Apple into one of the world's most valuable companies, with a market capitalization of $356.8 billion.
在实现这一目标的过程中，他把苹果转变为了世界最有价值的公司之一，该公司的市值达到3,568亿美元。
Mr. Jobs was 56 years old. After exhibiting significant weight loss in mid-2008, he took a nearly six month medical leave of absence in 2009, during which he received a liver transplant. He took another medical leave of absence in mid-January without explanation before stepping down as chief executive in August.
乔布斯终年56岁。他在2008年年中体重明显下降后，在2009年休了近六个月的病假，在此期间他接受了肝移植手术。在今年八月辞去苹果公司首席执行职务之前，他在七月中旬又请了一次病假，但未解释具体原因。
Mr. Jobs is survived by his wife, Laurene, and four children.
乔布斯身后留下了妻子劳伦（Laurene）和四个孩子。
Although his achievements in technology alone were immense, Mr. Jobs played an equally groundbreaking role in entertainment. He turned Apple into the largest retailer of music and helped popularize computer-animated films as the financier and CEO of Pixar Animation Studios, which he later sold to Walt Disney Co. He was a key figure in changing the way people used the Internet and how they consumed music, TV shows, movies, books, disrupting industries in the process.
乔布斯单在科技领域就已经取得了举世瞩目的成就，但他在娱乐业发挥了同样具有开创性的作用。他让苹果成为了最大的音乐零售商，在担任皮克斯动画工作室（Pixar Animation Studios）投资人和首席执行长期间推动了电脑动画电影的普及。后来他将皮克斯卖给了华特•迪斯尼公司（Walt Disney Co.）。乔布斯在改变人们使用互联网的方式，消费音乐、电视剧、电影和书籍的方式方面是个关键人物。在这一过程中，他也颠覆多个行业。
Mr. Jobs also pulled off one of the most remarkable comebacks in modern business history, returning to Apple after an 11-year absence during which he was largely written off as a has-been and then reviving the then-struggling company by introducing products such as the iMac all-in-one computer, iPod music player and iTunes digital music store.
乔布斯还完成了现代商业史上最引人注目的东山再起案例之一。离开苹果的11年间，乔布斯基本上被看作是昨日黄花。11年后他回到苹果，接连推出iMac一体机、iPod音乐播放器和iTunes数字音乐商店等产品，令当时处于困境的苹果公司起死回生。
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- computer [kəm´pju:tə]
n.计算机；电子计算器 (初中英语单词) - passion [´pæʃən] n.激情；激怒；恋爱 (初中英语单词)
- energy [´enədʒi] n.活力，精力；能力 (初中英语单词)
- career [kə´riə] n.经历；生涯；职业 (初中英语单词)
- valley [´væli] n.谷；河谷；流域 (初中英语单词)
- addition [ə´diʃən] n.加；加法；附加物 (初中英语单词)
- productive [prə´dʌktiv] a.生产的；富饶的 (初中英语单词)
- advertising [´ædvətaiziŋ] n.广告a.广告的 (初中英语单词)
- meanwhile [´mi:n´wail] n.&ad.其间；同时 (初中英语单词)
- culture [´kʌltʃə] n.修养；文化；饲养 (初中英语单词)
- beginning [bi´giniŋ] n.开始，开端；起源 (初中英语单词)
- philosophy [fi´lɔsəfi] n.哲学；人生观 (初中英语单词)
- valuable [´væljuəbəl, -jubəl] a.有价值的，贵重的 (初中英语单词)
- medical [´medikəl] a.医学的；医疗的 (初中英语单词)
- absence [´æbsəns] n.不在，缺席；缺乏 (初中英语单词)
- explanation [,eksplə´neiʃən] n.解释；说明；辩解 (初中英语单词)
- executive [ig´zekjutiv] a.行政的 n.行政官 (初中英语单词)
- immense [i´mens] a.广大的，无限的 (初中英语单词)
- equally [´i:kwəli] ad.相等地；平等地 (初中英语单词)
- entertainment [,entə´teinmənt] n.招(款)待；联欢会 (初中英语单词)
- remarkable [ri´mɑ:kəbl] a.值得注意的；显著的 (初中英语单词)
- player [´pleiə] n.游戏的人；选手 (初中英语单词)
- countless [´kauntlis] a.无数的 (高中英语单词)
- enrich [in´ritʃ] vt.使丰富；改进 (高中英语单词)
- sleepy [´sli:pi] a.困的，想睡的 (高中英语单词)
- alongside [əlɔŋ´said] ad.在旁 prep.横靠 (高中英语单词)
- oracle [´ɔrəkl] n.预言(者)；圣理名言 (高中英语单词)
- founder [´faundə] n.奠基者 v.陷落 (高中英语单词)
- appeal [ə´pi:l] vi.&n.请求；呼吁；上诉 (高中英语单词)
- significant [sig´nifikənt] a.重要的；意义重大的 (高中英语单词)
- increasingly [in´kri:siŋli] ad.日益，愈加 (英语四级单词)
- unbroken [ʌn´brəukən] a.未破的；不间断的 (英语四级单词)
- retail [´ri:teil, ri´teil] n.&a.&v.零售(商品的) (英语四级单词)
- trying [´traiiŋ] a.难堪的；费劲的 (英语四级单词)
- brilliance [´briljəns] n.光辉，辉煌 (英语六级单词)
- expanse [ik´spæns] n.广阔；宽阔的区域 (英语六级单词)
- innovation [,inə´veiʃən] n.改革；革新；创新 (英语六级单词)
- transplant [træns´plɑ:nt, -plænt] vt.移植(种)；迁移 (英语六级单词)
- financier [fi´nænsiə] n.财政家，金融家 (英语六级单词)
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