It was nearly three years ago, on a warm De- cember morning, that Ellen M. Hancock hit rock- bottom. Fired five months earlier as Apple Computer Inc.'s chief technology officer by boss Steven P. Jobs, Hancock was still out of work. She had bucked long odds to become one of high tech's brightest female stars, but she was spending her days reflecting on three years of bitter disappointment: being run out of IBM in 1995 by CEO Louis V. Gerstner Jr. after 29 years, getting passed up a year later for the vacant CEO job at chipmaker National Semiconductor Corp., and being pushed out by the cocky Jobs, who had dismissed her as a "bozo."
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机译：大约三年前，在一个温暖的12月一个早晨，艾伦·汉考克（Ellen M. Hancock）跌到了谷底。五个月前，汉考克被老板史蒂文·乔布斯（Steven P. Jobs）任命为苹果计算机公司首席技术官，被解雇。她一直努力争取成为高科技界最耀眼的女明星之一，但她却度过了自己的日子，经历了三年的痛苦失望：1995年，首席执行官路易五世（Louise V. Gerstner Jr.）在被IBM淘汰后，走了29年，过世了一年后因在芯片制造商美国国家半导体公司（National Semiconductor Corp.）担任空缺的CEO职位而被抬高，并被自高自大的乔布斯（Jobs）淘汰，乔布斯（Jobs）认为她是“ bozo”。
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