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翻译笔记:乔布斯的PowerPoint无用论乔布斯在做演讲
当今科技日益发达,不论是学校的课堂教育还是企业的产品评估(product review process),PowerPoints都做为重要的展示手段。人们通过一张张的幻灯片(show a bunch of slides)传播自己的看法和思想。而作为科技巨子的乔布斯又对这一展示手段有何看法呢?是加倍欣赏还是极力禁止(ban PowerPoints)?这一期,带你走近乔布斯的PowerPoints无用论(I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking). 【英语原文】 He also enlisted a friend, Phil Schiller, who had worked at Apple but was then at the graphics software company Macromedia."Steve would summon the teams into the boardroom, which seats twenty, and they would come with thirty people and try to show PowerPoints, which Steve didn't want to see,"Schiller recalled. One of the first things Jobs did during the product review process was ban PowerPoints. "I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking," Jobs later recalled. "People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint." (Chapter 25 Think Different: Product Line Review) 他还征用了好友菲尔-席勒。席勒曾在苹果工作过,但那时他正就职于图形软件公司Macromedia。他回忆时说:“乔布斯经常把团队召集到一个只有二十个座位的会议室,但通常会来三十个人展示他根本不想看的PPT。” 乔布斯在产品评估过程做的第一件事就是禁止使用PowerPoint。他曾表示:“我讨厌人们只放映幻灯片而不思考这种做派。每遇到一个问题,他们就做幻灯片。但我需要的是:深入问题,当场拿出方案,并非只放幻灯片。知道自己在讲什么的人,不需要PowerPoint。” 更多《乔布斯传》翻译笔记文章 【翻译笔记】 1.Phil Schiller 菲尔。席勒是苹果全球市场的营销高级副总裁,也为苹果管理团队的成员。自其1997年4月加入苹果后,席勒已经帮助公司创造出世界上最好的电脑和Mac,领先音乐数字革命的iPod和iTunes,iPhone和其应用商店。 2.Macromedia Macromedia, 成立于1992年,2005年被adobe公司收购。Macromedia公司通过广泛的用户群体和行业合作伙伴将Macromedia产品的应用拓展到网上出版、多媒体开发、图形图像处理、远程视频、多平台发布等领域。Macromedia的主要软件产品包括:Macromedia Director、Macromedia Dreamweaver、Macromedia Fireworks、Macromedia Flash、Macromedia Flash Player、Macromedia FlashMX等。Macromedia公司的软件产品被全球数以百万计的开发人员和设计人员所使用,为他们提供了高效地创造互联网上最为有效的用户体验。 3.PowerPoints “Powerpoint”简称PPT,是微软公司设计的演示文稿软件。用户不仅在投影仪或者计算机上进行演示,也可以将演示文稿打印出来,制作成胶片,以便应用到更广泛的领域中。利用Powerpoint不仅可以创建演示文稿,还可以在互联网上召开面对面会议,远程会议或在网上给观众展示演示文稿。 4.slide vi. 1.滑,滑动 The boys amused themselves by sliding down the banister. 男孩们从楼梯扶手滑下以取乐。 2.不知不觉地陷入[(+into)] He had slid into bad habits. 他不知不觉地染上了坏习惯。 3.悄悄地走[Q][(into/out of)] She slid out of the classroom. 她从教室里悄悄地溜走了。 vt. 1.使滑动,使滑行 He carefully slid the top off the box. 他仔细地将箱盖挪开。 2.悄悄地迅速放置[O][(+in/into)] He slid a pistol into his pocket. 他将一支手枪悄悄地放入口袋。 n. 1.雪崩;山崩;土崩 The slide cut off the valley from the rest of the world. 山崩切断了这个山谷与外界的联系。 2.幻灯片 She used slides as a teaching aid. 她曾经用幻灯片作为辅助工具。 5.confront vt. 对抗, 使面对, 遭遇, 使对质, 比较 be confronted with 面临,面对…… I am confronted with many difficulties. 我面临很多困难。 A soldier has to confront danger and death. 军人必须勇敢而冷静地面对危险和死亡。 My house confronts his. 我的家与他的家对门。 6.hash out 想办法解决,仔细讨论 hash out a problem. 经过长期讨论解决一个问题 The teacher asked them to sit down, and hushed out their differences. 老师要他们坐下讨论讨论以消除分歧。 We must hash out the problem of Mr Brown's appointment. 我们必须把任命布朗先生的问题讨论出一个结果来。
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