雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:面朝大海(212)

It described the relationship between a fifteen-year-old boy and his teacher, and like The Cloven Pine tried to see life through teenage eyes.

與《邪惡之鬆》一樣，這本書也是以少年的視角，塑造了一個15歲男孩與老師之間的關係。

It was, however, a relationship very different from the vague nuances of Fred Clayton's cri de coeur.

然而在這部小說中，這種關係完全不同於弗雷德·克萊頓那種含混而微妙。

In the old days Alan had often teased Fred, shocking him with rather over-simplified assertions about the prevalence of homosexual activity,

以前，圖靈常以一種輕鬆的語氣，給弗雷德形容同性戀之盛行，弗雷德感到驚慌失措。

and this was a book which caught up with the serious thread that had underlain that delight in gossip-a wish to defy the 'social stigma' and discuss sex in the same way as one might discuss anything else.

這本書中，就是以嚴肅地態度來審視這件事，它要打破所謂的社會禁忌，試圖用討論普通事物的心態，來討論性行爲。

Meanwhile Finistere also did full justice to the reality of the 'social taboo', and its plot followed a complex pattern of private and public disclosures.

它通過明暗交錯的複雜線索，對社會禁忌進行了客觀地揭露。

These the novelist made lead to a conclusion of hopeless doom, as though homosexual life were something inherently self-contradictory and fatal:

但故事最後，卻還是註定的毀滅，正如同性戀本身，充滿了自我矛盾：

'the strip of sand, the distinct footprints leading in one single trail into the black water.'

"這是一條溫柔的路，卻又是一條不歸路。"