《史蒂夫乔布斯》
Jobs, along with the company he built, gets people's blood boiling with loyalty* and with hatred, echoed by the debates between fans of Macs and of Windows PCs, between fans of iOS and of Android.
Walter Isaacson, though, has done a good job with his biography. The result is a book that, although not perfect, is a reliable* guide to a man who reshaped the computing industry and more.
Jobs' life is packed with drama. When he died of cancer this month at a relatively young age of 56, Apple finds itself at the height of its power.
There was a risk, as an authorized biography, that the book could have been tame*, but it's not. Jobs himself urged Isaacson to write it and encouraged those he's known to open up to the writer. Just as Jobs told Isaacson that "my job is to say when something sucks* rather than sugar-coat it", Isaacson has presented an unvarnished* view of Jobs.
That means we get to hear about the employees he treated harshly*, the management incompetence that defeated some of his dreams and got him ejected* from Apple, and the first daughter he largely abandoned* for years.
Jobs got an opportunity to reshape the computing industry. With Apple, he made the most of it — twice — and with Walter Isaacson, he took that opportunity again. Isaacson presents Jobs as he was, but Jobs gets his "One More Thing" moment, too, in the form of 1,493 words written shortly before his death, the closing words of the book. It summarizes his view of leadership, innovation and changing the world. Countless people will read it.
loyalty 忠诚
reliable 可信的
tame 温和的
suck 糟透了
unvarnished 坦率的
harshly 严厉地
eject 驱逐
abandon 抛弃
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