《乔布斯传》英文原著重点词汇笔记（五）【 chapter three 】

The Dropout 之 Turn on, Tune in …

1. oscillate           v.振荡
He oscillated between charismatic and creepy.

2. earnest            adj.认真的，诚挚的，真诚的
Wozniak, in his earnest and sweet way, found it fun.

The Dropout 之 Reed College

3. muse                 v.沉思，冥想，沉思地自言自语
…, musing on how diffent his world …

4. exhort               v.劝诫，劝告
…, during which he exhorted his listeners, …

5. metaphor          n.隐喻
These ancient goals we define in the metaphor of the present — turn on, tune in, drop out.

6. injunction          n.告诫；命令；劝告；禁令
Many of Reed’s stuednts took all three of those injunctions seriously; the dropout rate during the 1970s was more than one-third.

7. refrain                 v.避免，克制
In fact, he refrained from even saying good-bye or thanks.

8. wind down           平息
The nation’s involvement in the Vietnam War, and the draft(征兵，草稿) accompanied it, was winding down.

9. recede                  v.消退
Political activism at colleges receded …

10. eschew               v.不再追求，避免
That spirtual quest had caused him to eschew material possessions, …

11. fast                      n.禁食
…, which included purges(催吐), fasts, …

The Dropout 之 Robert Friedland

12. sophomore           n.大二学生

13. guru                      n.精神导师，领袖

14. parole                   v.假释
He was sentenced to two years at a federal prison in Virginia, from which he was paroled in 1972.

15. hone                      v.磨炼
Jobs had honed his trick of using stares and silences to master other people.

16. dictatorial              adj.独断专行的
He was mercurial(雄辩机智的，水银的，水星的), sure of himself, a little dictatorial.

17. commune                 n.社群
…, he turned it into a commune called the All One Farm, …

18. prune / trim / clip                   v.修剪
Jobs took on the task of pruning the Gravenstein apple trees.

19. cult                            n.邪教组织，异教
Jobs was also beginning to have a little trouble stomaching Friedland’s cult leader style.

20. eke out                       竭力维持
In the meantime Jobs eked out a bohemian(放荡不羁) existence on the fringes(边缘) of Reed.