雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第4章:彼岸新星(63)

Such a machine, Alan had realised, could be used on the zeta-function calculation, to save the dreary work of adding, multiplying, and looking up of cosines.

艾倫意識到，這樣的機器就可以用於ζ 函數的計算，從而避免那些繁瑣的工作，比如乘法和查餘弦表。

Alan must have described this idea to Titchmarsh, for a letter from him dated 1 December 1937 approved of this programme of extending the calculation, and mentioned:

艾倫一定是把這個想法告訴了蒂施馬奇，因爲有一封1937年12月1日來自蒂施馬奇的信，贊同了這項計劃，並且提到：

'I have seen the tide-predicting machine at Liverpool, but it did not occur to me to use it in this way.'

"我在利物浦也見過那臺潮汐預測機，但我沒想到可以用在這裏。"

There were some diversions.

這時還有一些插曲。

The hockey playing continued, although without Francis Price and Shaun Wylie the team had lost its sparkle.

艾倫仍然在玩曲棍球，他們的隊伍已經潰不成軍了，因爲缺少了弗蘭西斯·普利斯和肖恩·懷利。

At Thanksgiving he drove north to visit Jack and Mary Crawford for a second time.

感恩節的時候，他第二次開車去北方，拜訪傑克和瑪麗·克勞福德，

('I am getting more competent with the car.')

他的駕駛技術已經很有進步了。

Before Christmas, Alan took up an invitation from his friend Venable Martin to go and stay with him.

聖誕節前，艾倫接受維納博·馬丁的邀請，前去和他一起度假。

He came from a small town in South Carolina.

他住在南卡羅萊那的一個小鎮上。

We drove down from here in two days and then I stayed there for two or three days before I came back to Virginia to stay with Mrs Welbourne.

兩天後我們開車南下，在那裏待了兩三天，然後回到弗吉尼亞，拜訪了威爾伯尼夫人。