A few weeks later he called Bob Belleville, one of the hardware designers on the Xerox Star team.

几个星期之后，乔布斯给施乐之星团队的硬件设计师之一鲍勃·贝尔维尔去了电话。

The Xerox Star extended the desktop metaphor.

Xerox Star 扩展了桌面隐喻。

Unfortunately, like Engelbart’s oN-Line System, the Xerox Star was ahead of its time.

不幸的是，就像 Engelbart 的联机系统一样，Xerox Star 超前于时代。

Instead, the PARC team kept refining the hardware and software, culminating in the Xerox Star system, released in 1981.

相反，PARC 团队不断改进硬件和软件，最终在 1981 年发布了 Xerox Star 系统。

That was significantly cheaper than the Xerox Star, but it turned out to be an equal flop in the market.

这比 Xerox Star 便宜得多，但结果在市场上同样失败。

In 1981, well before the Apple Lisa or Macintosh, they introduced the Xerox Star, a machine that featured their graphical user interface, mouse, bitmapped display, windows, and desktop metaphor.

在苹果的丽萨和麦金塔电脑问世之前，早在1981年，施乐就推出了他们的“施乐之星”，这台电脑上运用了图形用户界面、鼠标、位图显示、窗口以及桌面概念。

In December of 1979, a year and a half before the Xerox Star shipped, a guy you may have heard of visited: Steve Jobs.

1979 年 12 月，也就是 Xerox Star 发货前一年半，一个你可能听说过的人拜访了他：史蒂夫·乔布斯 (Steve Jobs)。