名人教你讲英文：苹果的成功之道

名人教英文：苹果的成功之道

《乔布斯传》上周全球发行，不少人希望从中了解乔布斯的成就。daniel gross在雅虎财经专栏说："it's difficult to put a tag on what it is precisely that jobs did. "

"put a tag on something"的字面义是“贴上标签”，比喻“以只言词组描述”。另一用语 "put a price tag on something" 更常见，但意思不同，解作“标价”或“用金钱衡量”。例如，西九文化区项目很可能超支超时，目前难以确定成本："it is difficult to put a price tag on the west kowloon cultural district project at this stage because of the strong possibility of cost and time overruns."

乔布斯与过往的商业奇才不同：

"he didn't create a fundamentally new business structure, the way john d rockefeller did with the vertical integration of standard oil. he didn't democratise a product that had only been available to the very rich, as henry ford did with the model t. and he didn't fundamentally alter the distribution, logistics, and production systems the way that sam walton did with wal-mart. "