图：保罗·乔布斯和史蒂夫·乔布斯

每一个人都有自己小小的童年，然而，人们都是无法选择自己的出生，无法预知自己的童年。快乐或悲伤，似乎都是命中注定。苹果之父乔布斯又有怎样的童年呢？

HINTS:
Westinghouse
Edwin Land
Polaroid
Eisenhower
ne'er-do-wells
U-2
Soviet
NASA Ames Research Center
Sunnyvale

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His father was calm and gentle, traits that his son later praised more than emulated. He was also resolute. Jobs described one example: Nearby was an engineer who was working at Westinghouse. He was a single guy, beatnik type. He had a girlfriend. She would babysit me sometimes. Both my parents worked, so I would come here right after school for a couple of hours. He would get drunk and hit her a couple of times. She came over one night, scared out of her wits, and he came over drunk, and my dad stood him down -- saying "She's here, but you're not coming in." He stood right there. We like to think everything was idyllic in the 1950s, but this guy was one of those engineers who had messed-up lives. What made the neighborhood different from the thousands of other spindly-tree subdivisions across America was that even the ne'er-do-wells tended to be engineers. "When we moved here, there were apricot and plum orchards on all of these corners," Jobs recalled. "But it was beginning to boom because of military investment." He soaked up the history of the valley and developed a yearning to play his own role. Edwin Land of Polaroid later told him about being asked by Eisenhower to help build the U-2 spy plane cameras to see how real the Soviet threat was. The film was dropped in canisters and returned to the NASA Ames Research Center in Sunnyvale, not far from where Jobs lived. "The first computer terminal I ever saw was when my dad brought me to the Ames Center," he said. "I fell totally in love with it."
他的父亲宁静又温和，这些特质后来得到了乔布斯的赞扬而不是效仿。他还是一个坚决果断的人。乔布斯说了一个例子： 住在我们隔壁的是一个在西屋电气公司研究光伏电池的工程师。他还没有结婚，属于“垮掉的一代”那种类型的人。他有一个女朋友，她有时候会给我做保姆。我的父母都要工作，所以放学后我就去他们家待几个小时。他会喝酒，然后还会打她。有天晚上她吓得魂不附体地跑到我们家来，那男人也醉醺醺地跟过来了，我爸爸拦住他说：“她是在这儿，但你不准进来。”他就站在那儿。上世纪50年代的时候，我们以为万事都是平静祥和的，但这个家伙就属于那种生活一团糟的工程师。 这个地区与遍布美国的千千万万个绿树浓荫的地区不同的一点是，即便是个一无所长的人也想成为工程师。“我们搬到这里时，每个角落都能看到杏子和李子果园，”乔布斯回忆说，“但因为军事投资的关系，整个地区开始急速发展起来。”乔布斯收到硅谷历史的浸淫，渴望自己也能施展拳脚。宝丽来的埃德温•兰德后来告诉他，艾森豪威尔曾要求自己帮助制造U-2侦察机上的照相机，来监视苏联的威胁。胶卷被装在小罐子里，然后送到森尼韦尔的美国国家航空航天局埃姆斯研究中心，这里离乔布斯家不远。“我第一次见到计算机终端，就是我爸爸带我去埃姆斯中心的时候，”他说，“我觉得自己彻底爱上它了。”