雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第5章:解謎接力賽(111)
In 1941 everyone had to knit and glue and make their own entertainments. At the Clock House, where Mrs Morcom died this year, they were eating the young goats,
and at Bletchley the shipping crisis was reflected not only in the work of Hut 8, but in the miserable regime of school dinners.
海運危機不但反映在8號營房的情報中，也反映在餐廳日益低劣的飲食中。Apart from the diet, the siege mentality suited Alan rather well, with matters of social protocol that in the 1930s seemed so important now falling into abeyance.
社會禮儀在30年代是很重要的，而現在卻緩和了，這種心理屏障很適合艾倫。
He always liked making things for himself, be they gloves, radio sets or probability theorems.
他喜歡爲自己做事，無論是手套、無線電臺，還是研究概率論。Now the war was on his side. In a more self-sufficient England, everyone had to live in a more Turingesque way, with less waste of energy.
戰爭就在眼前，在自傲的英國，人們不得不學學圖靈式的生活，減少對社會資源的浪費。In many ways a New Statesman readers' establishment, distilling the more creative elements of the ancient universities.
這位《新政客》的讀者，從古老的大學中吸取了新鮮的元素。Alan was as shy as ever of this sort of thing, and never became a figure in the Bletchley social world.
他從未想過在布萊切利的小社會中成爲一個人物。To some extent he was a 'character', but without the dominating egoism of the much older Dillwyn Knox.
某種程度上講，他是一個人物，但他卻沒有迪爾威·諾克斯的獨裁氣質，He retained a shy boy-next-door manner which muted his detachment from convention.
他就像是一個害羞的鄰家男孩。Among the Hut 8 people, his persona was that of 'the Prof'; for while all the new men were 'men of the professor type', the word suited him particularly well.
在8號營房的人們看來，他的人格和外貌都像一位"教授"，這個稱呼格外適合他，Joan also called him 'Prof' while they were at work,
當他和瓊一起工作時，瓊也稱他爲教授。although off-duty Alan commented on this, not actually objecting, but making her promise that she would not ever do so when he really was a professor, or indeed had returned to academic life.
下班後，艾倫對此頗有不滿，於是瓊保證說，將來他真的當上教授後，就不這麼稱呼他了。But it was also that he did not want to sound presumptuous of professorial status.
艾倫不喜歡這種感覺。
