雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:水銀延時線(98)
Monday 18 August 1947 was declared to be the official start to the building of the ACE.
Darwin presided over a special morning.
達爾文主持了一場晨會。Alan attended, but said nothing.
圖靈也到場參加了，但卻一言未發。
Womersley, reporting to Darwin that the ACE should be complete by early 1950, was satisfied. In theory the ACE was still a venture of immense national importance, and Hiscocks had called this its 'D-Day'.
沃默斯利得意地向達爾文報告，ACE將於1950年年初竣工。ACE是一項回報率巨大的風險投資，希斯考克把這場晨會稱爲ACE的"諾曼底之日"。The truth, however, was that the NPL had now almost succeeded in cutting the ACE down to its own bureaucratic size.
爲了滿足政治需要，國家物理實驗室幾乎已經成功地把ACE閹成了太監，Only Alan Turing prevented the triumph being complete, awkwardly remaining to voice the original vision. On 30 August he wrote to Darwin that
現在只有圖靈還在頑強地阻止這場"勝利"，他尷尬地堅持着自己的想法。8月30日，圖靈寫信給達爾文：A letter has come from Ministry of Supply ng us to do their programming for them.
軍需部來信……要求我們承擔一些編程工作。This is work that we ought to be able to undertake, but it will not be possible with our present very small programming staff.
這項工作從技術上來說，我們是可以做到的，但是我們目前的編程人員數量太少，所以實際上不可能完成。This staff is quite inadequate for our own needs; it will have to be at least three times greater than it has been up to now, if we are to make a success of the ace project.
現有的人員，對於我們自己的項目來說，已經是非常緊張了，要想讓ACE項目獲得成功，至少需要三倍的工作人員。The arrival of Mr D.W. Davies , of course, be of some help, but we need in addition another two or three bright (Scientific Officers) diately.
D·W·戴維斯先生的到來，自然是很有一些幫助的，但是我們仍然需要立即再增加兩到三位科學家……It is essential to recruit the ace planning staff now, because it must be trained and in full production long before the machine itself is available for use.
立即爲ACE項目招募預備人員，這是非常緊要的，因爲在機器完工之前，必須有足夠的時間對他們進行培訓。A large body of programming must be completed beforehand, if any serious work is to be done on the machine when it is made.
如果我們想在機器竣工後馬上做出一些像樣的成果，那麼就有大量的編程工作需要事先完成。
