雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:面朝大海(263)
Regardless of any post-1945 developments, he had been the top-level liaison between the two countries in 1943, and admitted into secret American establishments.
無論他在1945年以後做了什麼工作，但至少在1943年，他是英美兩國的祕密橋樑，有權進入美國的機密部門。
Besides knowing so many technical details, he was a person 'on top of intelligence problems'. He knew how the systems worked as a whole—the people, the places, the methods, the equipment.
他身爲情報領域的核心人物，掌握着這個龐大系統的一切細節，從人員、地點，到技術、設備，這些全都在他的腦子裏。
Had the headline been 'ATOMIC SCIENTIST FOUND DEAD', the questions would have been immediate and public.
《原子能科學家突然身亡》的新聞，迅速在公衆層面引起了劇烈轟動。
In Alan Turing's case, the questions were not obvious, but precisely because the field of his expertise was even more closely guarded than that of nuclear weapons.
而圖靈的案子之所以不明顯，是因爲情報領域比原子能領域受到了更爲嚴格的保密。
And it was the Ultra secret that Churchill personally cared about, the adventures of the secret service being useful largely as cover stories.
這是丘吉爾個人關心的超級祕密，特勤局的冒險活動在很大程度上可以作爲封面故事。
Alan Turing had stood at the very centre of the Anglo-American alliance. His very existence was a glaring embarrassment, and one which put the British government in the position of being answerable for his behaviour.
但在英美聯盟這個層面上，圖靈是個核心人物，現如今他的存在，成了英國政府的一種恥辱。
Fundamentally it was not his homosexuality that presented a difficulty to the mind of security, but the lack of control, the element of the unknown.
對於圖靈這個人，從本質上來說，真正的難題並不是他的同性戀身份，而是他的那種神祕感，那種無法控制的未知感。
The coroner said that 'with a man of his type'—a man of the Professor type!—no one could tell what his mental processes would do next.
正如法官所說，像圖靈這樣的人，沒有人能猜透他接下來會做什麼。
That iconoclastic 'originality' had been acceptable in the brief period of 'creative anarchy', which had even stomached the arrogance and will-power required to solve the unsolvable Enigma, and force the implications upon an unwilling system.
當年在特殊的社會局勢下，人們不得不容忍他的特殊性，哪怕是最傲慢的人，也要對這位解謎大師禮讓三分。
