雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第7章:運轉起來(35)
Once of an evening he went out for a run and managed to break his ankle by slipping on a slime-covered brick which formed part of the garden path, just as he was getting into his stride. He had to be sent off in an ambulance to have it set in hospital.
But at other times the Prof delighted everyone by winning the sports day race, and by defeating the young Alan Wesley (another of the March intake) who rashly challenged him to a circuit of the large field.
不過在大多數時候，大家都覺得圖靈很有活力，他贏得了運動會跑步比賽，還戰勝了挑戰他的艾倫·衞斯理。At lunchtimes, they would gather in the mess, and look at the newspapers: the Daily Mirror first, for the comic strip Jane.
在午餐時間，他們會坐在一起看看報紙，先看《每日鏡報》，因為上面有連環漫畫《珍妮》。
Don Bayley, who was very keen on military matters, might tell them about the developing strategy of the eastward moving armies, while Alan might hold forth on some topic of a scientific or technical flavour, such as why water was opaque to electromagnetic radiation of the radar wavelength, or how a rocket could accelerate its own fuel quickly enough.
對戰況感興趣的唐·貝利會給大家講東進策略，而圖靈則比較熱衷於科技方面的話題，比如為什麼雷達波在水裏很難傳播，或者火箭如何加速推進。They would sometimes go for lunchtime walks together, Timothy the cat accompanying them.
有時他們還會在午後一起散步，提摩西也會陪同。Robin Gandy was learning Russian—not because of his earlier membership of the Communist party (which had lapsed in 1940), but because of his admiration for the Russian classics.
羅賓·甘迪正在學俄語，但並不是因為他曾經加入過共產黨（1940年退出了），而是因為他很喜歡俄國的經典。Robin still considered himself a fellow-traveller, and in this respect 1941 had not changed Alan's view that he was quite misguided.
羅賓對十月革命心存讚賞，圖靈仍然他在這一點上很不明智。But there was little discussion of politics at Hanslope, where the prevailing attitude was that of doing the job without asking questions.
漢斯洛普也有過一些政治討論，儘管這裏是個不問為什麼、只有埋頭苦幹的地方。
