雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第6章:連接兩個世界(24)
This dimension of the war went without saying, and did not need talking about.
Yet in Alan Turing's case there was a sharp irony,
而對艾倫·圖靈而言，還有一個更尖銳的刺激注。in that Himmler had sneered at British Intelligence for making use of homosexuals, and had specifically directed that in Germany useful talents could not exempt those so identified from the general rule.
希姆萊嘲笑英國情報局任用同性戀者，而且特意諷刺說，德國的人才實在沒有能力嘗試如此有特色的行爲。
Few indeed could have appreciated that irony, and fewer still have believed that this strange civilian on the Empress of Scotland was playing as much of a part as any in bringing Himmler to his own poison.
然而，也許很少有人知道，正是這位有特色的同性戀者，把希姆萊引向了他的墳墓。In 1939 Forster13 had expressed the numbing conviction that to defeat fascism it would be necessary to become fascist.
1939年，佛斯特說，要想打敗法西斯，自己必須先成爲法西斯。Yet far more subtly, the logic of the game was reflecting something inhuman into what was called democracy: not just in the bombing raids alone, but in a deep internal way.
這場遊戲的邏輯，隱約反映出民主違揹人性的一面：不光是轟炸空襲，還有深層的內在問題。As the Allied war turned from defence to offence, from innocence to experience, from thinking to doing, an undefinable naivete was going with the wind.
隨着盟軍從思考變爲行動、從防禦轉爲進攻、從新手上陣變得經驗豐富，那些說不出來的天真就已經隨風遠去了。The very success and efficiency of its scientific solutions was bringing this about.
這種情況正是由成功而高效的科學技術導致的。In 1940 there had been a feeling, quite illusory perhaps, of individual contact with the course of events.
在1940年，人們普遍有種幻覺，彷彿自己與世界是脫節的，But now even a Churchill was dwarfed by the scale and complexity of operations.
現在就算是丘吉爾，在如此大規模和超級複雜的軍事行動中，也顯得太渺小了。In the 1930s it had seemed that there were simple choices to be made between good and evil.
在30年代，似乎在正義與邪惡之間，可以簡單地做出判斷。But after 1943, as the Allies prepared to join the Russians in biting on the Nazi apple, nothing would be simple again. Nothing could even be properly known.
但是在1943年後，當盟軍與蘇聯一道去咬納粹的蘋果時，什麼都不簡單了，什麼都不再有真相了。
