不給我工作我就不走了翻譯學(xué)習(xí)之雙語(yǔ)閱讀
【英語(yǔ)原文】
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)
【譯文】
雅達(dá)利電腦游戲公司的創(chuàng)始人叫諾蘭·布什內(nèi)爾，他是一個(gè)身材魁梧的企業(yè)家，一個(gè)魅力四射表現(xiàn)力十足的夢(mèng)想家。換句話說(shuō)，又是一個(gè)人們會(huì)競(jìng)相模仿的偶像。出名之后，他喜歡開(kāi)著一輛勞斯萊斯四處轉(zhuǎn)悠，吸毒成癮，喜歡在按摩浴缸里開(kāi)員工會(huì)議。他身上有一種能力喬布斯后來(lái)學(xué)到了，那就是能把魅力變成巧妙的說(shuō)服力，利用人格的力量，哄騙、脅迫和扭曲的手段都用上，改變事實(shí)。他手下的總工程師叫阿爾·奧爾康，身材健壯，天性活潑，更加腳踏實(shí)地。他是雅達(dá)利大家庭的家長(zhǎng)，努力實(shí)現(xiàn)著布什內(nèi)爾的愿景，同時(shí)又克制著他的熱情。他們的經(jīng)典之作是街機(jī)電子游戲《乒乓》（又名跳跳彈子臺(tái)），這個(gè)游戲規(guī)則很簡(jiǎn)單：兩個(gè)玩家利用兩條移動(dòng)的光標(biāo)當(dāng)球拍，互相擊打屏幕上的'圓點(diǎn)。（要是你沒(méi)到30歲，那回家問(wèn)問(wèn)父母這個(gè)游戲是怎么玩的。）當(dāng)腳穿涼鞋的喬布斯初次來(lái)到雅達(dá)利找工作的時(shí)候，奧爾康也得到了通知�！八麄兏艺f(shuō)，大廳里有個(gè)嬉皮男孩來(lái)找工作，不雇他他就賴著不走了。叫警察還是讓他進(jìn)來(lái)？我說(shuō)把他帶進(jìn)來(lái)吧。”他后來(lái)回憶道：“現(xiàn)在回頭想想，雇個(gè)里德學(xué)院的退學(xué)生真的還蠻奇怪的，不過(guò)我在他身上看到了一些東西，他很聰明，對(duì)科技有熱情有干勁�！�
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