I had found a cement cinderblock in a corner of the garage and had managed to pick it up.

我在车库角落里找到一块水泥板，想办法把它拿起来。

Unknown to me, wasps had constructed a small nest in the lower half of the cinderblock.

可我浑然不知马蜂已经在水泥板下面部分筑起了一个小蜂窝。

When I dropped the cinderblock on one bare foot, mashing all five toes, I forgot all about the wasp.

当我把水泥板扔到地上，砸到我一只光脚五个脚趾的时候，我把马蜂蜇的那点痛全忘了。

In ninth grade Jobs went to Homestead High, which had a sprawling campus of two-story cinderblock buildings painted pink that served two thousand students.

到了九年级，乔布斯去了家园髙中（Homestead High)，这所学校的校园有些杂乱，由几栋两层楼的砖砌建筑构成，建筑都被刷成了粉色，当时有 2000 名学生。

If you give an aspiring engineer enough PVC pipe, 2x4s sandbags and cinderblocks and then you work for a few weeks, it's amazing what he can build.

如果你给一个有抱负的工程师足够的PVC管、二乘四见方的沙袋和煤渣砖，然后让你工作几周，建出的东西能否惊艳众人？

I carried it slowly across the garage's smooth cement floor, except in my mind I was dressed in an animal skin singlet (probably a leopard skin) and carrying the cinderblock across the center ring.

我搬着它慢慢走过车库平滑的水泥地面，但在我的脑子里，我正身穿一件兽皮背心（很可能是豹皮的），搬着那块水泥板走过舞台。

I can't remember if I was taken to the doctor, and neither can my Aunt Ethelyn (Uncle Oren, to whom the Evil Cinderblock surely belonged, is almost twenty years dead) , but she remembers the sting, the mashed toes, and my reaction.

我不记得当时有没有去看医生，艾瑟琳姨妈也不记得了（那块水泥板的主人是我姨父奥伦，二十多年前已经辞世），可仍然记得我被马蜂叮、被砸到脚趾的事，还记得我的反应。