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:
San Jose
Haltek
Nash Metropolitan
MG
Nash Metropolitan
Fiat
Abarth

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At the wooden counters up front, laden with thick catalogues in tattered binders, people would haggle for switches, resistors, capacitors, and sometimes the latest memory chips. His father used to do that for auto parts, and he succeeded because he knew the value of each better than the clerks. Jobs followed suit. He developed a knowledge of electronic parts that was honed by his love of negotiating and turning a profit. He would go to electronic flea markets, such as the San Jose swap meet, haggle for a used circuit board that contained some valuable chips or components, and then sell those to his manager at Haltek. Jobs was able to get his first car, with his father's help, when he was 15. It was a two-tone Nash Metropolitan that his father had fitted out with an MG engine. Jobs didn't really like it, but he did not want to tell his father that, or miss out on the chance to have his own car. "In retrospect, a Nash Metropolitan might seem like the most wickedly cool car," he later said. "But at the time it was the most uncool car in the world. Still, it was a car, so that was great." Within a year he had saved up enough from his various jobs that he could trade up to a red Fiat 850 coupe with an Abarth engine. "My dad helped me buy and inspect it. The satisfaction of getting paid and saving up for something, that was very exciting."
在店里堆满了厚厚目录的木质柜台前，人们会为了开关、电阻、电容和最新的存储芯片讨价还价。乔布斯的父亲以前也曾为汽车部件做过这样的事情，因为他比店员还清楚零件的价格，所以每次都能还价成功。乔布斯在这点上学习了父亲。他热衷于谈判并从中获得实惠，这也让他对电子零件有了更充分的了解。他会去电子产品的跳蚤市场，比如圣何塞交换大会，为了一块带有值钱芯片的电路板跟人讨价还价，然后把那些芯片卖给哈尔泰克商店的经理。 15岁那年，在父亲的帮助下，乔布斯拥有了自己的第一辆汽车。那是一辆双拼色的纳什大都会轿车，他父亲为之配备了一台英国MG公司生产的发动机。乔布斯并不怎么喜欢这辆车，但他不想让父亲知道，更不想错过拥有自己汽车的机会。“现在回想起来，纳什大都会看起来是最酷的车了，”他后来说，“但当时它是全世界最烂的车。不过，不管怎么样它也是一辆车，这就很好了。”不到一年，他通过各种各样的工作攒够了钱，可以换一辆带阿巴斯发动机的红色菲亚特850轿跑车了。“我爸爸帮我买车并检查了车况。把挣的钱攒起来去买东西的那种满足感太让人兴奋了。”