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2013.1.29Jobs liked to work. He also had a newspaper route—his father would drive him when it was raining—and during his sophomore year spent weekends and the summer as a stock clerk at a cavernous electronics store, Haltek. It was to electronics what his father’s junkyards were to auto parts: a scavenger’s paradise sprawling over an entire city block with new, used, salvaged, and surplus components crammed onto warrens of shelves, dumped unsorted into bins, and piled in an outdoor yard. “Out in the back, near the bay, they had a fenced-in area with things like Polaris submarine interiors that had been ripped and sold for salvage,” he recalled. “All the controls and buttons were right there. The colors were military greens and grays, but they had these switches and bulb covers of amber and red. There were these big old lever switches that, when you flipped them, it was awesome, like you were blowing up Chicago.”sophomore[s?f?m?:, -m?r]?n. 大学二年级生(在企业中工作第二年的人)auto[?:t?u]?n. autos=automobile 自动汽车 pref. 自动的,自己的route[ru:t]?n. 航线,路线,途径 vt. 按路线发送, 改变路线paradise[p?r?daiz]?n. 天堂scavenger[sk?vind??]?n. 清除剂(清道工,选池,基接受体)junkyard[d???k?jɑ:d]?n. 废品旧货栈cavernous[k?v?n?s]?adj. 似巨穴的，多洞穴的clerk[klɑ:k; kl?:k]?n. 职员,办事员stock[st?k]?n. 存货, 储备; 树干; 血统; 股份; 家畜 adj. 存货的; 平凡的, 惯用的; 股票的; 畜牧的 vt. 进货, 采购; 储存; 供给 vi. 出新芽; 进货sprawling[spr?:li?]?摊开手脚, 仰八叉surplus[s?:pl?s]?adj. 多余的,过剩的 n. 过剩,剩余物,盈余,顺差dump[d?mp]?n. 垃圾场,堆放处 vt. 丢弃,抛售,导出 vi. 骤降,扔垃圾component[k?mp?un?nt]?n. 元件, 组件, 成份 adj. 组成的, 构成的shelve[?elv]?vt. 放在架子上，搁置 vi. 倾斜salvage[s?lvid?]?n. 救捞(抢修,废物利用,废弃品,救难费) vt 救捞(抢修,废物利用)warren[w?rin]?n. 沃伦(男子名)\[warren] n. 大杂院, 养兔场bin[bin]?n. 箱柜 vt. 放入箱内 [计算机] DOS文件名: 二进制目标文件outdoor[autd?:]?adj. 户外的，野外的，露天的yard[jɑ:d]?n. 庭院, 场地, 码sold[s?uld]?v. 卖, 背叛, 销售 vbl. 卖, 背叛, 销售rip[rip]?n. 拉裂, 破绽, 激流, 浪荡子 vt. 撕裂, 激昂地说, 贬损 vi. 裂开, 仓促地冲过...submarine[s?bm?ri:n, s?bm?ri:n]?n. 潜水艇 adj. 水底的, 海底的 vt. 用潜艇袭击 vi. 滑入...底下interior[inti?ri?]?adj. 内部的,内地的,国内的,在内的 n. 内部Polaris[p?ul??ris]?n. 北极星gray[grei]?adj. 灰色的,阴沉的，黯淡的 n. 灰色 v. 变灰色 [Gr