雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:水銀延時線(93)
The British government was well-disposed to finding scientific solutions to its problems, and had announced on 5 February a grand plan to plant its East African colonies with groundnuts.
The ACE, likewise, though it represented only a fraction of the investment in the groundout scheme, was still in 1947 a highly progressive project.
雖然ACE項目的投資力度只是花生項目的零頭，但它同樣也是1947年的一個重要政府項目。It was just what the left-wing pressure groups had called for in the 1930s, with the state taking over the development of new science and technology instead of leaving it to the caprice of commerce.
這是左翼人士在1930年提出的主張，應該由政府來接管新型科學技術的發展，而不是將其扔進商業的旋渦。
Blackett, as president of the Association of Scientific Workers, was at the vanguard of this movement.
布萊克特是科學工作者協會的主席，也是這場運動的先驅，Blackett himself, by enticing F.C. Williams to work on a pure-mathematical computer at Manchester, had not exactly helped the national plan.
然而他把威廉姆斯挖到曼徹斯特，實際上卻是傷害了ACE項目。Darwin's position was more paradoxical still. Whether for hereditary or other reasons, he held the right-wing views of a Social Darwinist, taking a dim view of the welfare state.
達爾文的情況則更加矛盾，他持有右翼的社會達爾文主義觀點，('The policy of paying most attention to the inferior types is the most inefficient way possible of achieving the perfectibility of the human race.') His recipe for progress, or rather for a check to what he considered to be European racial suicide, was that men who had been 'promoted' should endeavour to have more children than others.
認爲優勝劣汰是獲得最優結果的有效途徑，並認爲精英人士應該多生孩子。Yet the dispensations of the NPL resembled less the jungle of cut-and-thrust competition than the ham-fisted management of the Soviet Union.
然而在他的領導下，國家物理實驗室的管理制度卻是蘇聯的大拳頭主義，They did not create an environment in which variety and initiative could long survive.
他並沒有爲多樣性和創造性提供一個良好的生存環境。
