" Wow, bring him on in, " Alcorn replied.

“天哪，快让他进来。”奥尔康回答。

Alcorn at Atari would sell them chips only if they paid cash up front.

雅达利的奥尔康愿意卖给他们芯片，但必须预付现金。

He dropped by Atari to consult with Alcorn, who knew old-fashioned electrical engineering.

乔布斯去雅达利公司咨询奥尔康，他了解老式的电气工程。

They complained to Alcorn that he dressed and smelled like a bum and behaved rudely.

他们向雅达利公司抱怨，说乔布斯的穿着和身上的味道像个流浪汉，而且举止粗鲁。

So Alcorn sent him on his way with the exhortation, " Say hi to your guru for me."

就这样，奥尔康送走了乔布斯，还叮嘱“代我向你的导师问好。”

" In retrospect, it was weird to hire a dropout from Reed, " Alcorn recalled.

“现在想想，雇用一名里德学院的辍学生真有点儿不可思议，”奥尔康说。

Alcorn assigned him to work with a straitlaced engineer named Don Lang.

奥尔康让乔布斯与一个叫唐·朗（Don Lang)的工程师一起工作，此人的思想极其保守。

" They don't even have a word for vegetarian, " he complained (incorrectly) in a phone call to Alcorn.

“他们甚至没有素食这个词。”他在给奥尔康的电话中抱怨。

Alcorn sketched out a fix with Jobs and then offered to pay for him to go to Europe to implement it.

奥尔康简单地向乔布斯描述了补救方案，然后花钱送他去欧洲解决问题。

Jobs went to Al Alcorn and asked for the chance to pitch it to Atari's management.

乔布斯去找了阿尔·奥尔康，希望能得到机会向雅达利的管理层进行推销。

" Steve goes in to pitch him, but Joe couldn't stand him, " Alcorn recalled.

“史蒂夫进去向他推销，但是乔根本无法忍受他，”奥尔康回忆说，。

When Jobs arrived in the Atari lobby wearing sandals and demanding a job, Alcorn was the one who was summoned.

当乔布斯穿着凉鞋来到雅达利公司要求工作时，有人通知了奥尔康。

When Jobs told the folks at Atari that he was quitting to go search for a guru in India, the jovial Alcorn was amused.

当乔布斯告诉雅达利的同事们自己要辞职去印度寻找精神导师的时候，奥尔康被逗乐了。

He set up a meeting with the company's president, Joe Keenan, who was a lot more conservative than Alcorn and Bushnell.

奥尔康安排他与公司的总裁乔·基南会面，此人相比奥尔康和布什内尔要保守许多。