雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第5章:解謎接力賽(44)
Like most wartime scientific work, it was not so much that it needed the most advanced knowledge of the day.
It was rather that it required the same kind of skill that was used in advanced research, but applied to more elementary problems.
而是運用最先進的研究方法，把它用在最基礎的問題上。The idea of automating processes was familiar enough to the twentieth century;
自動化的想法，在二十世紀是很普遍的，
it did not need the author of Computable Numbers.
並不是只有《可計算數》的作者才知道。But his serious interest in mathematicAl machines, his fascination with the idea of working like a machine, was extraordinarily relevant.
但是，艾倫對於數學機器很有興趣、對機械化想法很有興趣，這是非常有價值的。Again, the 'contradictions' and 'consistency' conditions of the plugboard were concerned only with a decidedly finite problem, and not with anything like Gdel's theorem, which concerned the infinite variety of the theory of numbers.
配線板的矛盾或相容，只是一個確定的、有限的問題，並不是像哥德爾定理那樣，涉及到變化無窮的數論。But the analogy with the formalist conception of mathematics, in which implications were to be followed through mechanically, was still a striking one.
但是，形式化的數學概念和分析方法，仍然會在其中起到很大的作用。Alan was able to embody this idea in the design of a new form of Bombe at the beginning of 1940.
1940年初，艾倫在新型炸彈機的設計中體現了這個想法。Practical construction began, and was pursued with a speed inconceivable in peacetime, under the direction of Harold 'Doc' Keen at the British Tabulating Machinery factory at Letchworth.
在英國報表機器公司的哈羅德·克伊恩的幫助下，該機器投入了實際製造，其進度之快，是和平時期無法想象的。
