And both the Apple III and the Lisa were dead in the water.

而Apple III电脑和丽萨电脑都彻底失败。

At first, he hoped that the Apple III would play that role.

最初，他希望 Apple III 能承担这个角色。

There was the ill-fated Apple III. There was the Lisa project, which was beginning to disappoint Jobs.

有命运凄惨的 Apple III，还有已经开始让乔布斯失望的丽萨项目。

By then Jobs had distanced himself from the Apple III and was thrashing about for ways to produce something more radically different.

那个时候，乔布斯已经疏远了 Apple III 项目，正焦急地想办法创造出更加与众不同的东西。

Both the Apple III and the Lisa failed to become commercial hits.

Apple III 和 Lisa 都未能成为商业热门产品。

This failure, it was followed by another — the Apple III, which again, failed to live up to expectations (and not just Job's expectations, but everyone's).

在这一失败经历过后，第三代苹果电脑依然不成功，它并不像期望的那样好，这不仅仅是乔布斯的期望，而是所有人的期望。

Sculley tried to impose an agenda; he wanted to discuss how to differentiate their products the Apple II, Apple III, Lisa, and Mac—and whether it made sense to organize the company around product lines or markets or functions.

斯卡利试着提出一个方案；他们将讨论如何区分他们的产品Apple II、AppleIII、丽萨和Mac，以及是否应该围绕产品线、市场或者职能来组织公司。

Randy Wigginton, one of the engineers, summed it up: " The Apple III was kind of like a baby conceived during a group orgy, and later everybody had this bad headache, and there's this bastard child, and everyone says, 'It's not mine.'"

工程师兰迪·威金顿总结道：“Apple III 有点儿像集体狂欢时怀上的孩子，事后大家都头痛得厉害，至于这个野孩子，人人都说不是自己的。”