雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:水銀延時線(109)
They were often together, and sometimes with Alan's friends, although Neville then felt rather out of place.
Neville joined in the game of poker that they determinedly played in order to test out Alan's minimax strategy.
奈維爾也加入了撲克遊戲，他們以此來測試圖靈的最大值最小化策略。(It was not very exciting, as the strategy was largely the obvious one anyway.)
這並沒什麼特別可說的，因爲這套策略基本上就是人們的自然打法。
In other ways, Alan was back to the difficulties of 1939.
圖靈彷彿又回到了1939年。For his mind still straddled mathematics, engineering and philosophy in a way that the academic structure could not accommodate.
他的思想跨越了數學、工程和哲學，而這是主流學術界無法容納的一種結構。Temporarily the war had resolved his frustration, giving him something to do that was intellectually satisfying, yet which actually worked.
戰爭暫時解開了他的困境，給了他智力上的滿足，讓他做了一些真正有效的事情。But that was over now, and instead of being drawn in, he was being pushed out.
但是那些都已經成爲過去了，而且在這一切之後，圖靈仍然沒有被容納，而是被再次排擠開外。How was he to continue, having won the war, and lost the peace?
他要怎麼繼續呢？他在戰爭中獲勝了，卻要在和平中失敗嗎？If he did not return to the NPL then the Entscheidungs problem lay between Cambridge and Manchester.
如果他不去國家物理實驗室，那麼選擇將存在於劍橋與曼徹斯特之間。He could stay at King's, and a lectureship ought to come his way.
他可以回國王學院，繼續做他的講師，He could return to the world of Hilbert and Hardy, as though the last nine years had never been.
他可以回到希爾伯特和哈代的世界，就像過去的九年不曾存在一樣。Yet no more than in 1939, was that the way his spirit moved.
但是不管怎麼說，現在不再是1939年了，圖靈的精神世界也已經變了，He did not want to go backwards, and he still wanted to grasp the computer that he had invented.
他不想撤退，他捨不得他發明的計算機。At Cambridge, the computer was firmly in the grasp of M. V. Wilkes, and Alan was far, far too proud to go cap in hand to use it.
在劍橋，計算機由威爾克斯牢牢掌控，圖靈不想爲此卑躬屈膝，看人臉色。If he wanted a computer, it meant going to Manchester.
如果他想使用計算機，現在還有一條出路，那就是去曼徹斯特。
