雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第9章:退隱山林(93)
With Alan fulfilling a consultant role for GCHQ, it may be reasonably supposed that he played a part in suggesting how they should use the universal machine he had promised to Travis six years or so before.
圖靈在政密學校擔任顧問的角色，可以想見，他一定強烈建議他們引進電子計算機，也就是他六年前向特拉維斯許諾的通用機。
But this was not where his heart lay now.
不過現在，圖靈的心已經不在這裏了。
As electronic computers began to impinge upon the world economy, Alan Turing continued to back away, and remained engrossed in the otherwise forgotten 'fundamental research'.
當電子計算機開始影響世界的時候，圖靈退出了這個江湖，他只願埋頭故紙堆，繼續做他無人問津的基礎研究。
A big inaugural conference was planned for July, but this work was done entirely by the engineers and Ferranti Ltd.
發佈儀式在七月舉行，出席的都是工程師和弗蘭蒂公司公司的人員。
It was not that Alan got in the way; he simply avoided participation.
圖靈沒有參加，他不喜歡拋頭露面。
No one could have guessed that officially he was paid to 'direct' the laboratory.
沒有人能夠猜到，他纔是正式受任來"指導"實驗室的人。
In the spring of 1951 he found a way to off-load his remaining responsibilities when R.A. Brooker, a young man from the Cambridge EDSAC team, called in to have a look at the new machine on his way back from a climbing weekend in west Wales.
1951年春天，圖靈找到一個機會，卸下了這個擔子。劍橋的EDSAC團隊有一位年輕人，名叫R·A·布魯克，他在週末去西威爾士爬山歸來的途中，來到這裏，想參觀那臺新機器。
For reasons of his own he liked the idea of moving to the North, and asked Alan if he had a job to offer. Alan said he did, and in fact Tony Brooker joined later in the year.
他因爲個人的原因，想到北方來工作，所以他問圖靈，能不能給他安排一下。圖靈同意了。同年沒過多久，布魯克就加入了。
Alan's detachment was annoying to the engineers, who felt that their achievement was hardly getting the recognition it deserved within the mathematical and scientific world.
圖靈的卸任，使那些工程師們感到很困擾，他們知道，自己在數學和科學方面很欠缺。
In many ways the Computing Laboratory remained as secret as Hut 8, just as computation remained the lowest form of mathematical life.
從某些方面來講，計算實驗室與8號營房的關係，就像計算與數學的關係，對圖靈來說，前者只是後者的低級形式。
In the 1951 elections, which took place on 15 March, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society.
1951年3月15日，圖靈被選爲皇家學會院士，
The citation referred to his work on computable numbers which had, of course, been done fifteen years earlier.
以表彰他15年前，關於可計算數的研究。
