不给我工作我就不走了翻译学习之双语阅读

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不给我工作我就不走了翻译学习之双语阅读

　　Atari’s founder was a burly entrepreneur named Nolan Bushnell, who was a charismatic visionary with a nice touch of showmanship in him—in other words, another role model waiting to be emulated. After he became famous, he liked driving around in a Rolls, smoking dope, and holding staff meetings in a hot tub. As Jobs would learn to do, he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and intimidate and distort reality with the power of his personality. His chief engineer was Al Alcorn, beefy and jovial and a bit more grounded, the house grown-up trying to implement the vision and curb the enthusiasms of Bushnell. Their big hit thus far was a video game called Pong, in which two players tried to volley a blip on a screen with two movable lines that acted as paddles. (If you’re under thirty, ask your parents.)When Jobs arrived in the Atari lobby wearing sandals and demanding a job, Alcorn was the one who was summoned. “I was told, ‘We’ve got a hippie kid in the lobby. He says he’s not going to leave until we hire him. Should we call the cops or let him in?’ I said bring him on in!” “In retrospect, it was weird to hire a dropout from Reed,” Alcorn recalled. “But I saw something in him. He was very intelligent, enthusiastic, excited about tech.” (Chapter 4 Atari and India: Atari)

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　　雅达利电脑游戏公司的创始人叫诺兰·布什内尔，他是一个身材魁梧的企业家，一个魅力四射表现力十足的梦想家。换句话说，又是一个人们会竞相模仿的偶像。出名之后，他喜欢开着一辆劳斯莱斯四处转悠，吸毒成瘾，喜欢在按摩浴缸里开员工会议。他身上有一种能力乔布斯后来学到了，那就是能把魅力变成巧妙的说服力，利用人格的力量，哄骗、胁迫和扭曲的手段都用上，改变事实。他手下的总工程师叫阿尔·奥尔康，身材健壮，天性活泼，更加脚踏实地。他是雅达利大家庭的家长，努力实现着布什内尔的愿景，同时又克制着他的热情。他们的经典之作是街机电子游戏《乒乓》（又名跳跳弹子台），这个游戏规则很简单：两个玩家利用两条移动的光标当球拍，互相击打屏幕上的'圆点。（要是你没到30岁，那回家问问父母这个游戏是怎么玩的。）当脚穿凉鞋的乔布斯初次来到雅达利找工作的时候，奥尔康也得到了通知。“他们跟我说，大厅里有个嬉皮男孩来找工作，不雇他他就赖着不走了。叫警察还是让他进来？我说把他带进来吧。”他后来回忆道：“现在回头想想，雇个里德学院的退学生真的还蛮奇怪的，不过我在他身上看到了一些东西，他很聪明，对科技有热情有干劲。”

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