雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第4章:彼岸新星(46)
It had all been said before, in The Loom of Youth:
Then Jeffries' wild anger, the anger that had made him so brilliant an athlete, burst out:
接着傑弗裏瘋狂地宣泄，他大聲咆哮道：'Unfair? Yes, that's the right word; it is unfair.
不公平嗎？對，就是不公平，這就是不公平！
Who made me what I am but Fernhurst? …
是誰把我變成這個樣子，難道不是弗赫斯特嗎？And now Fernhurst, that has made me what I am, turns round and says,
……它把我變成了這樣，然後轉身對我說，“You are not fit to be a member of this great school!” and I have to go. …'
我不配成爲這個偉大學校的一員，然後我不得不滾蛋The deeply embarrassing moment brought to light a vein of self-pity that he otherwise never showed, as well as an analysis which he must have known to be facile.
這令人尷尬的時刻，使艾倫覺得自己很可憐，否則他永遠不會將此表露出來，也不會思考該如何解脫。It would not do. It was time to look forward, not backward—but to what? How was he to continue?
現在他應該向前看了，而不是一直糾結，可是前面是什麼？如何向前？Maurice accepted the explanation, and they never spoke of it again.
莫瑞斯接受了他的解釋，並且再也沒有提起此事。Alan boarded the Queen Mary on his twenty-fifth birthday, and on 28 June disembarked at Southampton.
艾倫在25歲生日那天，登上皇后瑪麗號，並於6月28日在南安普頓上岸。He missed the Fourth of July softball match at the Graduate College, between the British Empire and the Revolting Colonies.
他錯過了6月4日的研究生壘球比賽。
