雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第5章:解謎接力賽(103)
Yet there was no question that navAl Enigma was Alan Turing's, and that he was in charge of it inasmuch as anyone was.
He had lived with it from beginning to end, and threw himself into the whole process, relishing the shift work on the incoming messages as much as any of the others.
他徹底地掌控着它，與它一起生活，形影不離。This was Snow White's little hut in the forest, where they all worked together with a will, and whistled as they worked.
這是白雪公主森林裏的小木屋，他們都帶着自己的興趣來工作，一邊工作一邊吹口哨。
Partly his position of leadership was because, like R.V. Jones, he was one of 'the men who went first'.
艾倫的領導地位，一部分是因爲他像瓊斯一樣來得早，He just happened to be in at the beginning.
他一開始就加入了。But it was also analogous to his attack on the Hilbert problem.
而且，正如他對希爾伯特問題的研究，The Turing machine idea had owed nothing to the Mathematical Tripos, and likewise his cryptanalytic ideas stormed ahead without the benefit of books or papers to build upon, for there were none.
圖靈的機器想法，並不依賴於他的劍橋數學學位。同樣，他的密碼分析想法，也沒有依靠什麼書籍或論文，因爲根本就沒有。In the British amateur tradition, he took out his pencil-box, sat down in his Hut, and set to work.
按照英國業餘的傳統，他只是拿着他的文具盒，坐在他的營房裏工作。In this respect the war had resolved some of his conflicts.
在這方面來說，戰爭解決了他的一些矛盾。
