雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:面朝大海(161)

Attitudes were one thing. Practical prospects were another.

心態是一回事，現實是另一回事。

There was the nauseating business of having authorities ransack his emotional life and pronounce upon it, and there was the actual punishment that lay in store.

被警察審查私生活並指手劃腳，這是非常令人厭惡的，更何況還將面臨實實在在的懲罰。

The circumstances of his crime, with their elements of age and class difference, were against him.

他犯罪的各方面情況，比如年齡因素、階級差別，對他來說都是非常不利的。

Even to the kindly disposed, this might seem a case of the 'elderly degenerate' of The Green Bay Tree, rather than the romantic wantonness of the greenwood tree.

即使從非官方的角度來看，他這個案子也屬於"老不正經"，而不是浪漫的愛情故事。

His intransigent attitude was also a challenge to the authority of the law.

另外，圖靈毫不妥協的態度，對法律的威嚴來說，也是一種挑釁。

But on the other hand, only 174 of the 746 men prosecuted in 1951 for the crime of 'gross indecency' had been imprisoned, and then mostly for less than six months.

不過，一個有利的事實是，在1951年被指控"嚴重猥褻罪"的746人中，最終只有174人入獄，而且絕大部分都不超過6個月。

He would have been in a more dangerous position had the charge been that of 'buggery', for the law distinguished carefully between different kinds of sexual activity.

如果圖靈被指控"雞姦罪"之類，他的處境就會更加危險，法律對各種性行爲區分得很仔細。

He was also a 'first offender', which diminished the chances of imprisonment.

此外，圖靈這次是初犯，這也會減小入獄的可能性。

But beyond this, the times were changing, and a more modern attitude was coming to prevail.

但是，隨着時代變化，人們的想法也在變化，那些研究同性戀的人。

The backroom boys were beginning to affect not only descriptions, but prescriptions.

現在不僅研究如何描述，還要研究如何治療。