雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:面朝大海(284)

In some ways the fears about scientists 'planning for our minds' were unjustified by events. Thus the plans for eradicating homosexuality by scientific means, like the claims of cybernetics, and like the other current dreams of truth drugs and lie detectors, were far too ambitious. They were certainly not a practical proposition in the Britain of the 1950s.

對於科學家"規劃我們的思想"的恐懼，事實上是毫無道理的，比如利用科學手段消除同性戀，比如控制論，比如吐真劑和測謊儀，這些東西在50年代的英國，都是不可行的提議注。

Although academic research and medical practice continued towards this goal, it never succeeded in attracting the full support of government.

雖然這方面的學術研究和醫學實驗一直不斷，但從那時起，就再也得不到政府的全力支持了。

Meanwhile the growth of a new economy, in which advertising, travel, leisure and entertainment made sexuality ever more conscious an attraction, would undermine the conservative and the medical models alike.

同時，隨着新型經濟的發展，廣告、旅遊、休閒、娛樂，這些都使性變得更爲開放，逐漸削弱了保守主義和醫學模型。

There would even be room for the notion of individual choice—an idea unheard in 1954.

像"個人選擇"這樣的前所未有的概念，也開始有了一席之地。

The state never adopted such great plans, scientific or otherwise, to control the behaviour of the whole population. There was an air of fantasy, ritual display, clashing of symbols, about the whipped-up 'moral crisis' of 1953-4.

關於1953-1954年爆發的“道德危機”，有一種幻想的氣氛，儀式的展示，符號的碰撞。

Instead the 1950s saw British government continue to relinquish much of the civilian economy to the fray of international business, tempered by the traditions of class, tribe, religion, elections and so forth. Thus Winston Churchill set the people free.

相反，在20世紀50年代，英國政府在階級、部落、宗教、選舉等傳統的影響下，繼續將大部分平民經濟交給國際商業的競爭。溫斯頓·丘吉爾就這樣解放了人民。