雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第5章:解謎接力賽(163)
It meant that a cloud of mystery and obscurity was settling over the whole British war.
All of its documentation had to be falsified, acting out a charade in which 'the old procedures', as Muggeridge saw it,
所有的文件材料都要進行做僞，表現得就像看手勢猜詞語遊戲。如馬格瑞奇所說：like the setting of agents, the suborning of informants, the sending of messages written in invisible ink, the masquerading, the dressing-up, the secret transmitters, and the examining of the contents of waste paper-baskets, all turned out to be largely cover for this other source;
特工、反間、隱形墨水、僞裝、虛張聲勢、檢查紙簍裏的東西，這很大一部分都是幌子，用來掩飾另外一個信息源。
as one might keep some old-fashioned business in rare books going in order to be able, under cover of it, to do a thriving trade in pornography and erotica.
這就好比，一個人可能用很老舊的方式，賣一些沒什麼價值的書，這是爲了掩飾他偷偷賣得很興旺的色情書。It was the ability of the British system to absorb the necessary innovations in an ad hoc fashion, when forced to do so, that constituted its real secret weapon.
英國必須要這樣做，來掩飾他真正的武器，Without that flexibility, all the mathematical and linguistic skill would have been of no avail.
沒有這些幌子，所有的數學技術都無法發揮作用。While A.V. Alexander, the trade union man who followed Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty, was never allowed to know about naval intelligence, let alone cryptanalysis,
當A.V.亞歷山大就任海軍第一大臣時，他甚至無權知道海軍的情報，更不要說分析方法了。Fragments of ordinary life continued. Occasionally he saw his friend David Champernowne, himself now work.ng in the Ministry of Aircraft Production, but of course they never spoke of their work.
艾倫的生活還在繼續，他偶爾去看望大衛·晨佩儂，他正在飛機生產部門工作，當然他們從不談起各自的工作。He had continued to concern himself with Bob's future, being concerned that he should try for a Cambridge scholarship, but Bob felt that he had disappointed Alan.
他仍然關心鮑博的未來，希望他能獲得劍橋的獎學金，但是鮑博讓他失望了。Alan could not possibly afford to send him to Cambridge, so Bob went in autumn 1942 to take the telescoped chemistry course at Manchester University, earning his own keep by stoking the boilers in the Friends Meeting House.
艾倫無法資助他，於是在1942年秋天，鮑博離開了劍橋，去曼徹斯頓大學學習化學，通過當燒火工賺錢，來維持自己的開銷。
