在他去世前几个月里，乔布斯的房子周围都安排了警卫，他的私人车道两边停有两辆黑色SUV汽车。10月6日星期四，随着网上悼词的骤增以及台湾、纽约、上海和法兰克福的苹果专卖店都贴满了苹果迷的手工祝福卡片，SUV汽车也跟着撤离，现在乔布斯家的小道上都放满了人们送来的花、蜡烛和一个个被小心地咬了一口的苹果。
“Everyone always wanted a piece of Steve,” said one acquaintance who, in Mr. Jobs’s final weeks, was rebuffed when he sought an opportunity to say goodbye. “He created all these layers to protect himself from the fan boys and other peoples’ expectations and the distractions that have destroyed so many other companies.
一位被婉拒与乔布斯告别的熟人说道：“每个人都想要分享乔布斯，他把自己层层保护起来，与他的粉丝、其他人隔绝，也避免了来自其他公司的干扰。”
“But once you’re gone, you belong to the world.”
“可是一旦你离开，你便属于全世界。”
Mr. Jobs’s biographer, Mr. Isaacson, whose book will be published in two weeks, asked him why so private a man had consented to the questions of someone writing a book. “I wanted my kids to know me,” Mr. Jobs replied, Mr. Isaacson wrote Thursday in an essay on Time.com. “I wasn’t always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did.”
为乔布斯写传记的作家艾萨克森的著作将在两周内发表。艾萨克森在周四的《时代》杂志文章中写到，曾经问过他为什么如此注重隐私的一个人会接受一个作家的访问。乔布斯的回答是：“我想要我的孩子了解我，我总是无法经常陪伴他们，所以我想要他们知道原因并试着理解我所做的一切。”
Because of that privacy, little is known yet of what Mr. Jobs’s heirs will do with his wealth. Unlike many prominent business people, he has never disclosed plans to give large amounts to charity. His shares in Disney, which Mr. Jobs acquired when the entertainment company purchased his animated film company, Pixar, are worth about $4.4 billion. That is double the $2.1 billion value of his shares in Apple, perhaps surprising given that he is best known for the computer company he founded.
由于隐私保护，现在还不知道乔布斯的继承人会如何使用这笔遗产。与其他著名企业家不同，乔布斯从来没有公开提过有要将遗产献给慈善事业的计划。他将皮克斯电影公司卖给迪士尼后，拥有迪士尼44亿美元的股份，两倍于他在苹果21亿美元的股份，这一点似乎让人讶异，因为他是因苹果电脑公司而闻名于世的。
Mr. Jobs’s emphasis on secrecy, say acquaintances, led him to shy away from large public donations. At one point, Mr. Jobs was asked by the Microsoft founder Bill Gates to give a majority of his wealth to philanthropyalongside a number of prominent executives like Mr. Gates and Warren E. Buffett. But Mr. Jobs declined, according to a person with direct knowledge of Mr. Jobs’s decision.
乔布斯的友人称，乔布斯强调隐私这点让他避开了一些大型的公共捐赠活动。有一次，微软创始人比尔·盖茨建议乔布斯将他的大部分遗产捐赠给慈善事业，当时在他们旁边还有另外几位著名的企业家，如沃伦·巴菲特，但是乔布斯婉拒了。
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