雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:面朝大海(288)
The fact that men received a conscious attention not accorded to women was, therefore, an aspect of male privilege-although perhaps Alan Turing would not have seen it in quite this way.
這其實是男性特權的某種體現——儘管圖靈也許不會這樣認爲。
Once John Turing had asked his father what he hated most. 'Humbug', he replied without a moment's hesitation.
有一次約翰問父親最討厭什麼，圖靈先生毫不猶豫地回答："欺騙。"
Thus an exposition of this idea appeared in the 1931 American novel Strange Brother, one of the few accessible pre-war exceptions to the general silence: 'You see the generative gland is made up, not only of the gland of reproduction, but of a gland which manufactures the chemicals that cause a man to be masculine in temperament, and a woman feminine.'
1931年的美國小說《異兄怪弟》中出現過這個想法："你看，我們的生殖器，並不只是用來生殖，它還控制化學物質，使男人像個男人，女人像個女人。"
'Both these chemicals are found in every human embryo. But if normal development does not take place, the feminine chemical may predominate in a male, or the masculine in a female. And we then get a man attracted by men, or a woman attracted by women.'
"每個人的胚胎中都同時存在這兩種化學物質，如果發生某種差錯，就會出現雌性激素在雄性個體中起支配作用的情形，或是反之。於是就造成某些雄性被雄性吸引，或雌性被雌性吸引。"
'This, at least, is the most plausible theory that modern science has to offer. And our experiments on rats and guinea pigs bear out the theory We've proved that, aside from the function of reproduction, sex differences are chemical.'
"這是現代科學所能給出的最合理的理論了，而且我們對白鼠和荷蘭豬也已經證明……我們可以證明，性別差異是化學的作用。"
Some of the results did not fit in, because the 'normals' sometimes had low ratios, and the gay men high ratios.
結果中存在一些例外，比如某些"正常人"也會出現很低的比值，而某些同性戀者有時反而會很高。
But this was ingeniously explained: 'Those few normal subjects may be latent homosexuals, whereas the homosexuals with the high ratios may not be of the true constitutional type.'
這一情況被巧妙地解釋爲："某些正常人其實是潛在的同性戀，而那些高比值的同性戀者則並不是先天的同性戀。"
In similar vein: 'The growing importance of the sociological aspects of the subject makes urgent the continued investigation of the problem from a broad psychosomatic perspective.'
"該問題導致的社會影響日趨重要，迫切需要通過更廣泛的手段進行解決。"
