雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第5章:解謎接力賽(126)
They walked the lesser mountains,
It was soon after they returned that Alan made up his mind and burnt his bridges. It was neither a happy nor an easy decision.
回去之後不久，艾倫決定要燒掉這座橋。這是一個既難過又艱難的決定。He quoted to her Oscar Wilde's words, the closing lines from The Ballad of Reading Gaol, which bore both an immediate and a prophetic interpretation:
他引用奧斯卡·王爾德的《累丁獄之歌》中的句子：
Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
人必毀滅他之所愛，By each let this be heard,
且看他們不同手段：Some do it with a bitter look,
有人是用橫眉冷對，Some with a flattering word,
有人是用蜜語甜言；The coward does it with a kiss,
懦夫獻上輕輕一吻，The brave man with a sword!
勇者揮出鋒利的劍！There had been several times when he had come out with 'I do love you'. Lack of love was not Alan's problem.
他曾經說出過幾次"我真的愛你"，他的困難並不是缺乏愛。The break created a difficult situation in the Hut.
他們的分手，在營房中造成了很尷尬的氣氛。Alan told Shaun Wylie that the engagement had been broken off, but not the true reason.
艾倫告訴肖恩·懷利婚約解除了，但沒有說出真正的原因。In fact he used a dream to make up an explanation, saying that he had dreamt that they had gone to Guildford together and that Joan had not been accepted by his family.
他常常想要編造一個解釋，比如說他們一起去了格爾福特，而他的家人不接受瓊。Alan dropped out of shift work so that he and Joan did not have to meet more often than necessary at first.
艾倫不參加輪班了，以避免與瓊發生不必要的見面。It was very upsetting for both of them, but he had behaved in such a way that she knew she had not been rejected as a person. The break was a barrier, but the understanding of it continued as a link.
他們雙方都很沮喪，但她能夠理解他。
