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苹果公司新总部办公楼宛如宇宙飞船

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Ask yourself, is it good that a company headquartersis roughlythe size of the Pentagon? Or should that be a red flag? I jest. Somewhat. But that's basically the size of Apple's new building, proposed by CEO Steve Jobs, although a bit of a s

  

  Ask yourself, is it good that a company headquartersis roughlythe size of the Pentagon? Or should that be a red flag? I jest. Somewhat. But that's basically the size of Apple's new building, proposed by CEO Steve Jobs, although a bit of a smaller footprint overall. Check out the graphicbelow from the Mercury News.

  试想一下,某个公司的总部办公楼和五角大楼一个规模,好还是不好呢?它会不会成为众矢之的呢?开个玩笑。但是据乔布斯表示,苹果的新总部办公楼正是这个尺寸,尽管总体的实际办公区域更小了。一起来看看水星报提供的对比图。

  

  从左到右依次是超美金字塔(1500人办公)、惠普总部大楼(20000人办公)、五角大楼(23000人办公)以及苹果新办公大楼(12000人办公)

  In a presentationbefore the Cupertino City Council on June 7, Jobs said, "Apple's growing like a weed."

  6月7日,在库比蒂诺城市委员会做演说之前,乔布斯表示,“苹果的发展如雨后春笋一般。”

  He said they have almost 12,000 people in the area and were renting buildings at an ever greater radiusfrom their campus. They have a plan that allows them to stay in Cupertino and "continue to pay taxes." Apple bought some land formerly owned by Hewlett Packard, and have designed an unusual building.

  他表示,苹果总部的办公人员数量已达12000人,并且租来的办公区域的辐射半径正在持续扩大。他们的计划是让所有人员都能留在库比蒂诺并且能够“继续贡献税收”。苹果之前买了一段曾属于惠普公司的地皮,并且设计了一座造型奇异的办公楼。

  "It's a little like a spaceship landed," Jobs told the council. Here's what the building will have:

  “它看起来就像是一架着陆的宇宙飞船,”乔布斯在委员会上说。以下是该建筑的一些数据:

  ·4 stories high

  · 楼高4层

  ·3.1 million square foot sphereof glass

  · 310万平方英尺玻璃球面结构

  ·energy-generating center

  发电中心

  ·150 acres of land

  · 总占地150亩

  ·capable of holding 12,000

  · 可容纳12000人

  ·auditorium

  · 大礼堂

  ·employee gym

  · 员工健身房

  ·cafeteriathat can hold 3,000 people

  · 可容纳3000人的咖啡厅

  ·some aboveground but mostly underground parking

  · 大部分位于地下、小部分位于地上的停车场

  ·research facilities

  · 科研设施完备

  ·move-in: 2015

  · 投用时间:2015年

  ·6,000 trees and apricotorchards

  · 6000棵树木以及若干片杏园

  ·80 percent of the land will be landscaped

  · 百分之八十的区域会被打造成园林式景观。



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