雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第5章:解謎接力賽(109)

Joan had only a cardboard pocket set, and proper chess pieces were unobtainable in wartime conditions, so they improvised their own solution.

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瓊只有一副硬紙板做成的口袋棋子，在戰爭期間，很難弄到像樣的棋子，於是他們打算自己動手做。

Alan got some clay from one of the local pits, and they modelled the figures together.

艾倫從附近的坑裏挖了一些泥土，他們一起捏製棋子，

Alan then fired them on the hob of the coal fire in his room at the Crown Inn.

艾倫在皇冠旅店的房間中燒製它們。

The resulting set was quite usable, if somewhat liable to breaking.

做好之後很實用，只是有點容易碎。

He also tried to make a one-valve wireless set, telling her about the one he had made at school, but this was not such a success.

艾倫還試着自制一個無線電臺，他對瓊說以前在學校裏做過一個，但這次卻沒有那麼成功。

They had been to see a matinee of a Bernard Shaw play while making their London visit,

他們在倫敦旅遊的時候，去觀看了下午場的蕭伯納戲劇。

and besides Shaw, Alan was currently keen on Thomas Hardy, lending Tess of the d'Urbervilles to Joan.

除了蕭伯納，艾倫現在還喜歡托馬斯·哈代，他把《苔絲》借給瓊。

These were, after all, with Samuel Butler, the writers who had attacked the Victorian codes.

這些都是對維多利亞時代的批判。

But they spent more time taking long country bicycle rides.

他們更多的時間是在鄉村的小路上騎單車。

And because she had studied botany at school, Joan was able to join in one of Alan's enthusiasms which went back to Natural Wonders.

瓊在學校裏學過植物學，所以能和艾倫一起重拾對《自然奇蹟》的熱情，

He was particularly interested in the growth and form of plants.

艾倫對植物的生長和結構特別有興趣。