雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第2章:下一個星期(6)
I am getting more and more settled down. But I won't be quite right until my things come. Fagging starts for us next Teusday. It is run on the same principle as the Gallic councils that tortured and killed the last man to arrive; here one fagmaster calls and all his fags run the last to arrive getting the job. You have to have cold showers in the morning here like cold baths at Marlborough. We have tea at 6.30 here on Mon., Wed., Frid. I manage to go without food from lunch to then. … The general strike had a part of it as a printer's strike the result of that is that 'Bennetts' booksellers had none of the books ordered and I am without a lot of them. As in most public schools new boys have to sing some song. The time has not yet come. I am not sure what to sing anyhow it won't be 'buttercup'. … The amount of work we are given for Hall here is sometimes absurdly small e.g. Read Acts chapters 3 and 4 and that is for 3/4hr.
我越來越適應這裏了。但行李還是沒到，所以我也好不到哪去。下週二我們要開始沉悶吃力的工作了。在這裏，折磨遲到者的手段，就跟高盧委員會一樣，老大一喊小弟們就趕緊跑最慢的人就得去幹活。這裏早上要衝冷水澡，就像馬爾伯勒的冷水澡一樣。我們每週一三五6: 30吃茶點，所以我從中午就憋着不吃飯……印刷工人也罷工了，結果伯納特書店沒有我們訂的書，所以我缺很多書。跟別的公學一樣，新來的男孩必須唱些歌。不過現在還沒到時候。我還不知道要唱什麼，反正不是《金鳳花》……我們的作業極少，比如讀《使徒行傳》第三章和第四章，只要45分鐘。
Yr loving son Alan
愛你 艾倫
There was indeed a song-singing and another ceremony in which he was kicked up and down the day room in a waste paper basket. However, if his mother read between the lines, she subordinated sympathy to her sense of duty. Her comment on this letter was that it displayed Alan's 'whimsical sense of humour'.
唱歌確實是有的，還有一些別的典禮，但是在這種時候，艾倫往往是被踢來踢去扔進紙簍的角色。艾倫的母親對這封信的評價是，這顯示了艾倫「古怪的幽默感」。然而，如果她能讀出言外之意，她更應當感到一種責任，而不是同情。
