"With iPod, Apple has invented a whole new category of digitalmusic player that lets you put your entire music collection in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go," he said at the time."With iPod, listening to music will never be the same again."

喬布斯在那時(shí)說：“隨著iPod的出現(xiàn)，蘋果開創(chuàng)了一種新的數(shù)字音樂播放器，能讓你把你所有的音樂收藏全部裝進(jìn)口袋，去哪都能聽。有了iPod，聽音樂將始終是一種不同的體驗(yàn)?！?/span>

Similar MP3 players released by Microsoft and Sony did not have the same success as the iPod.

微軟和索尼發(fā)售的類似的MP3播放器并沒有獲得和iPod一樣的成功。

Apple has released five versions of its music player - the Classic, Touch, Shuffle, Mini and Nano.

蘋果共發(fā)行了五種版本的iPod——Classic，Touch，Shuffle，Mini和Nano。

The company has been slowly killing its iPod range in recent years, with mobile phone technology enabling customers to listen to music services on their phones.

近年來，隨著移動(dòng)手機(jī)技術(shù)的發(fā)展，用戶可以在他們的手機(jī)上使用音樂服務(wù)，所以蘋果一直在緩慢縮小iPod的產(chǎn)品線。

In 2014, the classic click wheel model was discontinued, and the Shuffle and Nano were killed off three years later.

2014年，經(jīng)典按鈕輪型號停止了生產(chǎn)，Shuffle和Nano兩個(gè)版本也在三年后被砍掉。

The seventh-generation iPod touch was the only model still on sale today.

第七代iPod touch是目前仍然在售的唯一型號。

Without the iPod, there would never have been an iPhone or iPod, according to its inventor Tony Fadell.

如iPod的發(fā)明者托尼·法德爾所言，沒有iPod，也不會(huì)有iPhone和后續(xù)其他的iPod。

Key points：

1，discontinue /d?sk?n?t?nju?/ v.停止，中斷，停產(chǎn)

The Leica M2 was discontinuedin 1967.

徠卡M2型照相機(jī)于1967年停產(chǎn)。

2，industry-leading 行業(yè)領(lǐng)先的

Recruiters often prefer candidates who have worked for industry-leadingcompanies.

招聘人員往往偏愛那些曾在行業(yè)內(nèi)領(lǐng)先企業(yè)工作過的員工。

3，digital /?d?d??t(?)l/ adj. 數(shù)字的，數(shù)碼的

The indies convert their digitalmovies to film.

獨(dú)立制片公司把他們的數(shù)字電影轉(zhuǎn)為膠片電影。

*文章摘自sky news：Apple discontinues iPod, 20 years after it was released（蘋果公司停產(chǎn)了發(fā)布20年的iPod）

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