I spoke to two leading students at Morris Isaacson.

我采访了莫里斯·艾萨克森学院的两位主要学生。

Mr Isaacson finds meaning in the fact that Mr Jobs was adopted, but this excuse feels thin

作者把这归咎为当年乔布斯被弃养，可是这理由似乎没有什么说服力。

The picture Mr Isaacson paints, particularly in the first half of this book, is not flattering.

作者描述的情境，尤其是本书前半部分的那些，并不讨好。

Mr Isaacson has achieved what Mr Jobs wanted: an account for his four children of what their father did and why.

Issacson达到了乔布斯的要求--告诉他的四个孩子们他们的父亲曾经做了什么，以及他的理由。

At Morris Isaacson High School, famous for its role in 76, teachers like Prince Mulwela say that jobs and education are given to the politically connected, and corruption is rife.

莫里斯·艾萨克森中学因其在 1976 年所扮演的角色而闻名，正如普林斯·穆尔维拉这样的老师所说，工作和受教育权都掌握在有政治关系的人手中，腐败盛行。

It is clear that Mr Lewis is awestruck by his subject and his oddities, even more than Walter Isaacson was by Elon Musk, a capricious tech titan whose life he recently chronicled.

显然，刘易斯先生对他的主题和他的怪异感到敬畏，甚至比沃尔特·艾萨克森对埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）感到敬畏，埃隆·马斯克是一位反复无常的科技巨头， 他最近记录了他的生活。

This nasty edge wasn't always helpful, but it served a purpose, writes Mr Isaacson: many would “end their litany of horror stories by saying that he got them to do things they never dreamed possible.”

这种让人厌恶的棱角不是时时有效，可是也会达到它的目的，作者这样写到，很多人在讲了一连串他们痛恨的故事之后，会说，因为乔布斯，他们做到了他们从来都想不到会成为可能的事情。