雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第3章:思考什麼是思考(46)

Alan, upset by this attack, said to James, 'If you want to go to bed, it'll be one-sided.' But this was the exceptional moment in a relationship which continued – to a lessening degree – for several years.

艾倫的反應很激烈，他對詹姆斯吼道：如果你想上牀，滾邊兒待着去！但這只是幾年友誼中的例外時刻。

No one else knew of this, although in more general terms, as the Feast incident illustrated, Alan was not particularly secretive about his sexuality.

沒有其他人知道這件事，雖然一般來講，這次宴會事件也說明，艾倫對他的性取向並不是很保密。

There was another undergraduate for whom Alan (as he told James) had longings, and their names were linked by scurrilous clues like 'See under 2 down' for a crossword puzzle in an abortive King's rag magazine.

有一位本科生（對詹姆斯說）對艾倫很有憧憬。

In the autumn of 1933 Alan also made another friend, with whom the main link was discussion of sex.

1933年秋天，艾倫交了另一個朋友，他們的主要關係就是討論性。

This was Fred Clayton, who was a very different character.

他叫弗雷德.克萊頓，他的性格很不同。

While both Alan and James were reserved, but got on with it without making a fuss, with Fred it was the reverse.

艾倫和詹姆斯都很含蓄，他們就這樣，不捅婁子，這與和弗雷德的情況正相反。

His father was headmaster of a small village school near Liverpool, and he had not been through the public school training.

弗雷德的父親是一個利物浦附近的鄉村學校的校長，而且他沒有上過公學。

A rather small, rather young classics scholar, he had been cox of the boat in which Alan rowed, but their acquaintanceship developed as Fred became aware of Alan as someone whose sexuality seemed to be made no secret, either by himself or by others.

他的年齡更小，曾經是艾倫划船的舵手，但隨着慢慢了解，弗雷德知道艾倫是一個在性方面沒有祕密的人，無論是他自己還是別人，都不忌諱談討此事。

Fred was very interested in an exchange of views and emotional experiences, feeling himself very puzzled by sex, and confronted by ex-public schoolboys much more conscious of homosexual attraction.

弗雷德對觀點的交換和情感經驗很有興趣，他對性感到很困惑。

He had taken advantage of the King's freedom of discussion, and had been told by a Fellow that he 'seemed a pretty normal bisexual male'.

他也面對着同性戀的吸引，利用着國王學院允許自由討論的好處。

But it was not as simple as that, and nothing was ever simple for Fred Clayton.

一個研究員說他看起來是很正常的雙性戀男，但這其實並不簡單，對弗雷德.克雷頓來說，沒有什麼是簡單的。