雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第7章:運轉起來(24)
Alan simply took what he was given, which was not very much, and he was offered some mathematical assistance in the form of Mary Wilson, who did direction-finding analysis with Keen. She was a graduate from a Scottish university.
But she did not have enough mathematics to understand what Alan wanted when he explained his idea.
但是當艾倫給她講解他的工作時，她卻完全聽不懂艾倫在說什麼。So over the next six months he had to work alone on the project, coming in a couple of days a week, not every week.
所以在接下來的六個月裏，艾倫基本上只能獨立工作。他每週會有一些任務，但也不是每週都有。
Two Army signalmen were assigned to assemble pieces of electronic equipment under his direction, but that was all.
兩名軍隊的信號員被分配過來，根據艾倫的指示，組裝一些電子設備，一共就是這樣。In mid-March 1944 that there was a distinct change in the Hanslope staffing, with an influx of mathematical and engineering expertise.
1944年3月中旬，漢斯洛普的員工有了大變化，大批的數學家和工程專家加入了。Such a change was needed. There was, for instance, an occasion when 'Jumbo' Lee showed Alan a problem on which they were stuck.
這種變化是必要的。比如有一次，"大個兒"給艾倫看一個使他們焦頭爛額的問題，It was no more than a trigonometrical series (in connection with aerial design) easily within the grasp of a Cambridge scholarship candidate, but he was most impressed when Alan immediately produced the answer, the more so as Post Office engineers had been laboriously summing it term by term.
其實只是一個三角級數（與天線設計有關），對於劍橋獎學金得主來說，顯然是小菜一碟。艾倫立刻給出了答案，"大個兒"感到非常震撼，而那些拼命吭哧着一項一項計算的郵政工程師們則更爲震撼。The authorities had chosen five new young officers, selected from those taking courses at the Army Radio School near Richmond in Surrey.
他們從無線電學校選拔了五位年輕官員，Two of them would take special places in Alan Turing's life.
其中有兩位對艾倫·圖靈的人生有着非凡的意義，Indeed, this was a fresh start for him. In 1943, he had met Victor Beuttell over lunch in London, with some of their personal troubles coming out. (Victor had finally rebelled against his father, and joined the RAF.)
這是他新起點。1943年，艾倫在倫敦和維克托·別特爾共進午餐，維克托終於反抗了父親的意願，加入了皇家空軍。They would never see each other again; but the personal rapport that thereby lapsed was to be found within new friendships.
那是他們最後一次見面，從此之後他們再也沒有見過。現在艾倫有了新的友誼。
