雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:水銀延時線(136)
Robin had rented Blackett's holiday home in Wales on occasion, and did so again this year.
By inviting Alan, he made possible a third holiday before the summer was out.
並且邀請了圖靈，於是在這個夏天過去之前，圖靈又享受了第三次度假。Another of the party was Nicholas Furbank, the friend of E.M. Forster, who had lately been writing a book on Samuel Butler.
還有一場聚會，是與尼古拉斯·佛本科一起，這是佛斯特的朋友，寫了一本關於塞繆爾·勃特勒的書。
This too was rather like an old-style Cambridge reading party.
這場聚會，活像一場經典的劍橋讀書會。Alan seemed very happy.
圖靈似乎非常開心。They played rationalist Twenty Questions as they filed along the hill paths and old railway tunnels.
他們走在山間的小路上，做着提問猜詞的遊戲，Alan developed a theory of how to choose the next question so as to maximise the expected weight of evidence of the answer.
圖靈還提出一套理論，來說明如何提問才能獲得最大的證據權重。One day they took a taxi and a bus at dawn for an expedition to the real mountain slopes of the Snowdon horseshoe,
有一天黎明，他們搭了一輛出租車，前往斯諾頓山，沿着克利布科奇山脊漫步。where Nick Furbank was suitably terrified and went on all fours along the narrow ridge of Cribgoch, but Alan strode on in dogged Turing fashion, as twenty years before, but with friends at last.
佛本科感到身心很愉悅，圖靈也以一貫的風格大步前進，一切都與20年前一樣，但不同的是，圖靈終於與朋友同行了。Down from the mountain tops, it was time to pack up.
圖靈站在了山頂，一覽衆山小，現在到了下山的時候了。The suitcase with the parts for the zeta-function machine was still in his room, along with the star globe and Christopher's picture.
他的房間中，還有一些ζ函數機的零件，跟他的天球儀和克里斯朵夫當年的圖畫放在一起。He kept as souvenirs some of the gear wheels that had been cut, but gave the rest to Peter Matthews to sell for scrap. Alan was rather disappointed with the price they fetched.
圖靈留了幾個齒輪作爲紀念，其餘的都交給彼得·馬修斯，當作廢品賣掉了，圖靈對賣價很失望。
