雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第5章:解謎接力賽(4)

But only three of these first recruits came from the science side.

在第一批招募的人員中，只有三位來自學術界，

Besides Alan, there were only W.G. Welchman and John Jeffries. Gordon Welchman was the senior figure, lecturer in mathematics at Cambridge since 1929 and six years older than Alan.

除了艾倫以外，還有W.G.威爾奇曼和約翰·傑弗裏注。戈登·威爾奇曼很資深，他比艾倫大6歲，自1929年起在劍橋擔任數學講師。

His field was algebraic geometry, a branch of mathematics then strongly represented at Cambridge, but one which never attracted Alan; their paths had not crossed before.

他的研究領域是代數幾何，這個數學分支後來成了劍橋的中堅，但卻一直沒有引起艾倫的興趣，他們的之前的發展道路沒有交點。

Welchman had not been involved with GC and CS before the outbreak of war as Alan had, and thus found himself, as a newcomer, relegated by Knox to the task of analysing the pattern of German call-signs, frequencies, and so forth.

威爾奇曼與艾倫不同，在戰爭爆發之前，他與政密學校沒有任何聯繫，他在這裏完全是新手。諾克斯指派他分析德國信號。

As it transpired, this was a job of immense significance, and his work rapidly brought such 'traffic analysis' to a quite new standard.

這項工作意義重大，他的努力很快就將分析水平提高到了新檔次。

It made possible the identification of the different Enigma key-systems, as was soon to prove so important, and opened GC and CS eyes to a much wider vision of what could be done.

威爾奇曼使識別不同的謎機內核成爲了可能，這是一個非常重要的進展，使政密學校大開眼界，也使他們看到了明天的希望。

But no one could decipher the messages themselves.

但是，仍然沒有人能夠破解謎機，

There was just a 'small group which, headed by civilians and working on behalf of all three Services, struggled with the Enigma.'

有一個小組正在與之苦苦鬥爭，

This group consisted first of Knox, Jeffries, Peter Twinn and Alan

這個小組的成員，包括諾克斯、傑弗裏、彼得·吐溫，還有艾倫·圖靈。