雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:水銀延時線(114)
The war had given him a false sense of what was possible.
For him, breaking the Enigma was much easier than the problem of dealing with other people, especially with those holding power.
對圖靈來說，破解謎機比人際關係要簡單得多，尤其是那些附帶權力的關係。During the war his own kind of work had been amplified into something enormously real, but only because other people had done all the work of organising coordination, and because he had Churchill's personal backing.
在戰爭中，他的工作被放大到極其可觀的規模，但這只是因爲別人替他完成了所有的組織和協調，而且得到了丘吉爾的個人支持。
Now there was nobody to do this for him, the NPL administrators not really having tried.
但是現在，沒有任何人爲他做這樣的事，那些國家物理實驗室的領導們從未這麼做過。A different person could more easily have compromised, and more effectively have fought on for the success of the project. But with him, it was all or nothing.
如果換作別人，可能會比較容易適應和妥協，但是對圖靈來說，要做就十全十美，要不就乾脆不做。Like his father, he had resigned from the Civil Service when the system did not work for him.
他就像他的父親一樣，當這個體制沒有按照他的想法運作時，他就辭掉了公務員。Unlike his father, however, he did not moan afterwards.
然而，圖靈與他父親不同的是，他沒有任何抱怨。Indeed, he very rarely referred to his time at the NPL. It became another great blank, to add to all the others.
圖靈後來很少提起他在國家物理實驗室的時光，這變成了他人生中的另一段空白。Despite his resignation, and all the embarrassment that surrounded it, he completed a report for the NPL in July and August 1948.
儘管圖靈已經辭職了，而且面臨着各種各樣的尷尬，但在1948年7月與8月間，他還是爲國家物理實驗室寫了一份報告。Its almost conversational style reflected the discussions he had pursued, many at Bletchley, in advancing the idea of Intelligent Machinery.
這其中反映了很多他在布萊切利談到的智能機器的思想。Although nominally the work of his sabbatical year, and written for a hard-line technical establishment, it was really a description of the dream of Bletchley Park,
雖然名義上他是在休假，但這份技術基礎理論卻非常強而有力，這是一份真正的對布萊切利莊園的夢想的描述。and reviewed in an almost nostalgic way the course of his own life rather than contributing to any practical proposals that the NPL might adopt.
圖靈把這當成對自己過往生命的一份懷念，而不是貢獻給國家物理實驗室的實質性建議。
