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2013.1.30Jobs was able to get his first car, with his father’s help, when he was fifteen. It was a two-tone Nash Metropolitan that his father had fitted out with an MG engine. Jobs didn’t really like it, but he did not want to tell his father that, or miss out on the chance to have his own car. “In retrospect, a Nash Metropolitan might seem like the most wickedly cool car,” he later said. “But at the time it was the most uncool car in the world. Still, it was a car, so that was great.” Within a year he had saved up enough from his various jobs that he could trade up to a red Fiat 850 coupe with an Abarth engine. “My dad helped me buy and inspect it. The satisfaction of getting paid and saving up for something, that was very exciting.”wickedly[wikidli]?adv. 心眼坏地, 居心叵测地Nash[n??]?n. 纳什(姓氏)tone[t?un]?n. 音调,语气,品质,调子,色调vt. 使更健壮,装腔作势地说, 定调, 调色 vi. 调和(颜色), 呈现悦目色调retrospect[retr?uspekt]?n. 回顾,追溯 v. 回顾,回想,追溯 n.对症,参照 adj. =retrospective 回顾过去的metropolitan[metr?p?lit(?)n]?n. 大都市的居民,大主教,母国的居民 adj. 大都市的,大主教区的,母国的fiat[fi:?t]?n. 由（政府）授权而具有特别意义的, 如fiat-money, 即政府授权发行的货币。 n. 命令，法令 n. (=FabbricaItaliana Automobile Torino) 菲亚特(财富500强公司之一, 总部所在地意大利, 主要经营汽车)coup[ku:]?n. 砰然的一击, 妙计, 出乎意料的行动inspect[inspekt]?vt. 调查, 检阅 vi. 调查various[v??ri?s]?adj. 各种各样的That same summer, between his sophomore and junior years at Homestead, Jobs began smoking marijuana. “I got stoned for the first time that summer. I was fifteen, and then began using pot regularly.” At one point his father found some dope in his son’s Fiat. “What’s this?” he asked. Jobs coolly replied, “That’s marijuana.” It was one of the few times in his life that he faced his father’s anger. “That was the only real fight I ever got in with my dad,” he said. But his father again bent to his will. “He wanted me to promise that I’d never use pot again, but I wouldn’t promise.” In fact by his senior year he was also dabbling in LSD and hash as well as exploring the mind-bending effects of sleep deprivation. “I was starting to get stoned a bit mor