乔布斯授权传记将出版

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs used the last interview before his death to explain to his children why "I wasn't always there for them", it was revealed today.

据英国《每日邮报》2011年10月7日报道，苹果公司创始人史蒂夫 乔布斯在他去世前的最后一次采访中，向他的孩子们解释了为什么他“一直没能陪在他们身边”，这一真相今日得以披露。

Stricken with terminal cancer and too ill to climb stairs the 56-year-old, whose death was announced on Wednesday, wanted to ensure that his biography was ultimately a love letter to his family.

在晚期癌症的折磨下，病得太重以至于上楼都有困难的乔布斯于上周三离世，享年56岁。生前他希望自己的传记最终可以成为一封写给家人的情书。

"I wanted my kids to know me", he told Pulitzer Prize nominee and author Walter Isaacson, when asked why he agreed to a tell-all book despite living a famously private life.

“我希望我的孩子了解我”，当乔布斯被问及为何他过着名人那种隐私的生活，却同意将之公诸于众时，他这样告诉沃尔特 艾萨克森，普利策奖的提名者，知名作家。

"I wasn't always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did", he added poignantly at his home in Palo Alto, California.

“我一直没能陪在他们身边，我希望他们明白原因，希望他们理解我所做的一切”，在加州帕洛阿尔托的家中，乔布斯令人心酸地补充道。

On that final visit last month Isaacson found Jobs coiled up in pain in a downstairs bedroom where he had moved to avoid going up and down stairs, "but his mind was still sharp and his humour vibrant", Isaacson said today.

在上个月最后的那次访谈中，艾萨克森发现乔布斯被疾病的痛苦所缠绕，他坐在楼下的卧室里，搬到这里是为了避免上下楼梯，“但他的思维依旧犀利，言谈也很幽默”，艾萨克森说。

He is survived by his wife Laurene Powell Jobs and their three children Eve, Erin and Reed but he also fathered a love child with his high school sweetheart Chrisann Brennan.

他留下了妻子劳伦娜 鲍威尔 乔布斯和三个孩子伊娃、艾伦和利德，但其实他与高中时期的恋人克丽丝 布伦南还有一个私生女。

Lisa Brennan-Jobs, 33, was only accepted by her father two years later after a court-ordered blood test proved she was his.

丽萨 布伦南 乔布斯，现年33岁，在通过法庭下令的血缘测试，证明其父是乔布斯两年后，才被乔布斯接受认可。

Ms Brennan-Jobs has made a living for herself, after graduating from Harvard University, as a journalist and writer.

布伦南 乔布斯早已自己谋生，从哈佛大学毕业后，她成为了一名记者和作家。

The biography, simply titled Steve Jobs, was at the top of the best-seller lists within hours of Apple's announcement of his death.

在苹果宣布乔布斯死亡后的几小时内，这本被简单题名为《史蒂夫 乔布斯》的传记登上了畅销书排行榜的榜首。

It is top of the Amazon chart, number three on Barnes & Noble.com and most fittingly the book also tops Apple's own chart: the iTunes books best-seller list.

它也是亚马逊（Amazon）书店的销售榜首，巴恩书店（Barnes & Noble.com）排行第三名，而最为理所应当的是，这本书也占据了苹果公司自身榜单的榜首：iTunes畅销书排行榜冠军。

Due to this incredible demand, publisher Simon & Schuster has announced that the release date has been moved up from November 21 to October 24.

由于令人难以置信的需求量，出版商西蒙与舒斯特公司（Simon & Schuster）已经宣布发布日期将由11月21日提前至10月24日。