雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第7章:運轉起來(89)
His attitudes still had more in common with the democratic individualism of J.S. Mill.
But he did not share Mill's interest in commercial competition.
但他與密爾不同，他對商業競爭沒興趣。Indeed, he did not know anything about it.
事實上，他對此一無所知。
His life had been in interlocking schools, universities and government service.
他的軌跡就是從公校，到大學，再到政府部門。In his undergraduate days business had been a holiday, and the small Beuttell and Morcom firms were themselves exceptions to the twentieth century trend, representing a spirit which had largely died with Gladstone.
他在大學假期時打工的別特爾公司，本身就是20世紀的異類，代表著與格萊斯頓一同死去的精神。And during the war, the contractors for equipment had been working on carte blanche government contracts in which ordinary considerations of profit had no application.
而且在戰時，裝置的承約人完全受政府合約的委託，不需要考慮利潤問題。Money, commerce, and competition had played no obvious part in the central developments in which Alan Turing was enmeshed, developments which had allowed him in many ways to remain the idealistic undergraduate.
金錢、貿易、競爭，這些都與艾倫的生活中心不相關，他在很多方面，仍是一個保持理想主義的學生。His retention of a primitive liberalism, his 'championing of the underdog' as it was seen at Hanslope, like his obsession with the absolutely basic, had the flavour of more Utopian thinkers than Mill.
他對原始的自由主義的推崇，他在漢斯洛普表現出來的對弱者的同情，還有他對絕對本質的痴迷，比密爾更具有烏托邦的味道。Tolstoy was a figure that he brought to one person's mind, and Claude Shannon had perceived him as like Nietzsche, 'beyond Good and Evil'.
他將自己比作托爾斯泰，而克勞德·夏農感覺他更像尼采，超越了善惡。But perhaps closer in spirit than either of these, and certainly closer to home, was another late nineteenth-century figure who had lurked more in the back room of political consciousness.
但也許比起這兩位，在精神上與他更為接近的，是另外一個19世紀後期人物，愛德華·卡本特。That awkward figure Edward Carpenter, while sharing much in common with each of these European thinkers, had criticised Tolstoy for a restrictive attitude to sex and Nietzsche for overbearing arrogance.
圖靈與這些歐洲思想家有很多共同之處，但他批判托爾斯泰對性的壓迫，以及尼采的傲慢和自負。
