雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第4章:彼岸新星(64)
It was quite as far south as I had ever been about 34°.
The people seem to be all very poor down there still, even though it is so long since the civil war.
雖然內戰已經過去很久，但那裏的人們似乎仍然很窮。Mrs Welbourne was 'a mysterious woman in Virginia' who had a habit of inviting English students from the Graduate College for Christmas.
維爾伯尼夫人，用艾倫的話說，是一個弗吉尼亞州的神祕女人。她的愛好之一，就是在聖誕節的時候，邀請一些英國研究生前來度假。
Alan and Will Jones organised another treasure hunt, although it lacked the élan of the previous year; one of the clues was in his collected Shaw.
艾倫和威爾·瓊斯又組織了一次尋寶活動，但已經不像去年那麼熱鬧了。And in April he and Will made a trip to visit St John's College, Annapolis, and Washington.
四月時，艾倫和威爾一起去旅遊，他們去了安那波里斯的聖約翰大學，還去了華盛頓。'We also went and listened to the Senate for a time.
我們還去聽了一會參議會，They seemed very informal. There were only six or eight of them present and few of them seemed to be attending.'
看起來很不正規，只有六七個人出席。They looked down from the gallery and saw Jim Farley, Roosevelt's party boss. It was another world.
他們從旁聽席往下看，看到了羅斯福的黨主席吉姆·法利。但對於艾倫來說，這都是另一個世界的人。The main business of the year was the completion of his PhD thesis, investigating whether there was any way of escaping the force of Gdel's theorem.
艾倫這一年的主要任務，是完成他的博士論文，關於是否有辦法逃脫哥德爾定理。
