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喬布斯與勞倫的愛巢
【英語原文】
The two-story house was made of red brick, with exposed wood beams and a shingle roof with curved lines; it evoked a rambling Cotswold cottage, or perhaps a home where a well-to-do Hobbit might have lived. The one Californian touch was a mission-style courtyard framed by the wings of the house. The two-story vaulted-ceiling living room was informal, with a floor of tile and terra-cotta. At one end was a large triangular window leading up to the peak of the ceiling; it had stained glass when Jobs bought it, as if it were a chapel, but he replaced it with clear glass. The other renovation he and Powell made was to expand the kitchen to include a wood-burning pizza oven and room for a long wooden table that would become the family’s primary gathering place. It was supposed to be a four-month renovation, but it took sixteen months because Jobs kept redoing the design. They also bought the small house behind them and razed it to make a backyard, which Powell turned into a beautiful natural garden filled with a profusion of seasonal flowers along with vegetables and herbs..(Chapter 20 A REGULAR GUY: A Family Home)www.Examw.com
【譯文】
這座兩層房屋由紅磚建造,木梁外露,屋頂鋪設木瓦板,呈流線狀。它讓人聯想起科茨沃爾德隨處可見的鄉間別墅,又或是某位殷實的霍比特人的家。房子的兩翼圍成了一個傳教士風格的庭院,這讓人看出了一點加利福尼亞的風格。兩層穹頂的起居室并非中規中矩,它有著瓷磚和琉璃鋪設的地板,房間盡頭是塊巨大的三角窗戶直達天花板頂部。喬布斯買下這房子的時候,房間的窗子是彩繪玻璃的,如同小教堂一般。但他把窗子換成了透明玻璃。他和鮑威爾做的另一項改動就是把廚房擴大,擴大后的廚房放得下燒木材的披薩烤爐,一張成為家庭首要聚會場合的大長木桌。本來計劃4個月完成的改造因為喬布斯的不斷修改拖到了16個月之后才完成。喬布斯和鮑威爾還買下了屋后的小房子,在把它拆掉后他們弄出了一個后院。鮑威爾則將這后院變成了鮮花遍開,蔬草遍布的美麗植物園。
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