雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第6章:連接兩個世界(2)
From Bletchley's point of view, America was the miraculous land across the rainbow bridge, possessing resources and skilled labour in quantities that desperate Britain could not supply.
The CSAW was already closely connected with the most advanced sections of American industry, using Eastman Kodak, National Cash Register, and IBM to plan and build its machinery.
通信保障中心與美國發達的工業界廣泛合作，他們在柯達公司、國家收銀機器公司，還有IBM公司的協助下，設計和製造各種機器。As in other ways, Hitler had the effect of adding British ideas to the massive capacity of American business.
如果說希特勒的實力結合了英國的思想力和美國的生產力，
Again it was Alan Turing's role to connect the logical and the physical.
那麼艾倫·圖靈現在就要再次扮演一個橋樑角色，以聯合邏輯的力量和實體的力量。But CSAW was certainly not without its own brains, and one of its staff was the brilliant young Yale graduate mathematician, Andrew Gleason.
當然，通信保障中心並不是沒有自己邏輯大腦。這裏有一位成員，名叫安德魯·格力森，是耶魯大學畢業的年輕數學家。He and another member of the organisation, Joe Eachus, looked after Alan during his period in Washington.
他和另一位成員，喬·伊查斯，負責在艾倫訪問華盛頓期間接待並照顧他。Once Alan was taken by Andrew Gleason to a crowded restaurant on 18th Street.
有一次，安德魯·格力森帶艾倫去十八街的飯店吃飯。They were sitting on a table for two, just a few inches from the next one,
這家飯店很擁擠，他們的桌子與旁邊的桌子只相距幾英寸。and talking of statistical problems, such as that of how best to estimate the total number of taxicabs in a town, having seen a random selection of their licence numbers.
他們在飯桌上討論統計學問題，比如通過一系列隨機的出租車執照號，如何估計一個鎮上的出租車總數。The man on the next table was very upset by hearing this technical discussion, which he took to be a breach of 'security', and said, 'People shouldn't be talking about things like that.'
鄰桌的人聽到這種技術討論，感到很厭煩，便以有可能危害安全爲由，說："別討論這類問題！"Alan said, 'Shall we continue our conversation in German?'
艾倫立即反問："那我們換德語討論，如何？"The man was insulted and told them in no uncertain terms how he had fought in the First World War.
那個人覺得很尷尬，支支吾吾地對艾倫炫耀他在一戰中的戰鬥經歷。
