????就連萊文也難以鼓足剛正不阿的勁頭。他似乎對(duì)手頭的材料并不太熟悉，靠著工作人員準(zhǔn)備的備注和（小聲提詞）硬撐，最后黔驢技窮，只得用冗長的發(fā)言阻撓立法投票。

????蘋果在調(diào)查委員會(huì)的亮相進(jìn)行到后面，就只剩下萊文一再重復(fù)蒂姆?庫克明顯不贊同的兩個(gè)要點(diǎn)，即蘋果公司已將自身最優(yōu)良的資產(chǎn)“轉(zhuǎn)移”到“不交稅”的實(shí)體中，而完全不給庫克機(jī)會(huì)反駁。

????你幾乎可以聽到無處不在的蘋果死忠粉絲大聲高呼，讓庫克打斷萊文這番高談闊論。

????不過庫克的忍耐沒有白費(fèi)。在庫克擔(dān)任證人的那兩個(gè)小時(shí)里，蘋果公司的股價(jià)從每股438美元漲到了每股444美元，讓《赫芬頓郵報(bào)》網(wǎng)站的論斷落了空。（財(cái)富中文網(wǎng)）

????譯者：項(xiàng)航

????Even Levin was having a hard time getting up a head of righteous steam. Working from staff-prepared notes (and whispered instructions) on material he didn't seem to have mastered fully, he was left, at the end, with no choice but to filibuster.

????Levin spent the last long minutes of Apple's appearance before the subcommittee repeating -- again and again -- two talking points with which Tim Cook clearly disagreed (that the company had "shifted" its crown jewels to entities that paid "no taxes") but to which Apple's CEO was never given a chance to respond.

????You could almost hear Apple partisans everywhere shouting for Cook to interrupt the harangue.

????But his forbearance served him well. In the two hours that Cook was on the stand, Apple's shares actually rose -- from $438 to $444 -- in defiance of the HuffPo curse.