雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第4章:彼岸新星(55)
He was currently writing a dissertation on the claim of Kant that moral categories could be justified even if human actions were as determined as the motions of the planets.
He canvassed Alan's opinion as to whether quantum mechanics had affected the argument—so much the problem to which Alan had addressed himself five or so years before!
他與艾倫討論量子力學是否會在這個問題中產生影響，這個問題已經困擾艾倫五年多了。But now he gave the impression that he had long been happy with the Russellian view, that at some level the world must evolve in a mechanistic way.
現在來看，他似乎同意羅素的觀點，在某種層面上講，世界確實是以確定的方式發展的。
He was not now very interested in philosophical, as opposed to scientific, discussions of the problem of free will.
他現在不太有興趣在哲學角度上討論自由意識，Perhaps the trace of his former conflict lay in his very vehemence in the materialist direction.
也許是因爲，這會與他強烈的唯物主義信仰產生衝突。'I think of people as pink-coloured collections of sense-data,' he once joked.
有一次，他開玩笑說“我認爲人類是粉紅的監測數據集合。”If only it were so easy! Symbolically, the Research fountain pen that Mrs Morcom had given him in 1932 was lost on the voyage.
要是這麼簡單就好了。值得一提的是，默卡夫人在1932年送給他的鋼筆，在這航行中被他弄丟了。Will Jones also had Alan explain to him some of the theory of numbers, and enjoyed the way that Alan did it,
艾倫還給威爾·瓊斯講了一些數論，他很喜歡艾倫講解的方式，showing how from the most simple axioms, all the properties could be precisely derived—an approach quite different from the rote-learning of school mathematics.
從最簡單的公理出發，精確地推導出其它東西，不是像學校裏面的那種死記硬背的數學。Alan never talked to Will about his emotional problems, but it might well be that he derived moral support in a much more general way, for Will appreciated in him the embodiment of the moral philosophy of G.E. Moore and Keynes.
艾倫沒有和威爾談論他的感情問題，但他可能從更廣泛的交談中得到了安慰，因爲威爾也很贊同G.E.摩爾和凱恩斯的道德觀。Alan and Will had become aquainted through being members of the same circle of friends the previous year, and another of the circle had also returned to Princeton.
艾倫和威爾去年就已經認識了，在他們的朋友圈中，還有一個人也回到了普林斯頓。
