雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第2章:下一個星期(21)

Anyone might like him personAlly, but as part of a system it was a very different story. At Christmas 1927 the headmaster wrote:

每個人私下都挺喜歡他，但是如果把他放在體制中來看，就是另外一個故事了。1927年聖誕節，校長寫道：

He is the kind of boy who is bound to be rather a problem in any kind of school or community, being in some respects definitely anti-social. But I think in our community he has a good chance of developing his special gifts and at the same time learning some of the art of living.

艾倫是個走到哪都讓人頭疼的孩子。某種程度上講，他是反社會的，但我認爲如果讓他走入社會，倒是有很好的機會發展他特殊天賦，並且學會一些生活的藝術。

With that judgment Nowell Smith suddenly retired, perhaps not sorry to relinquish the contradictions of his community, and the problem of Alan Turing's independent character.

在作出這番評論之後，史密斯校長就退休了。他離開了公學體制的矛盾，也離開了艾倫的獨立人格問題。也許，他沒有遺憾。

The new year of 1928 marked a period of change for Sherborne. Nowell Smith's successor was a C. L. F. Boughey, who had been an assistant master at Marlborough. By chance, the headmaster's departure had coincided with the death of Carey, the school games master. Between them, as 'Chief' and 'The Bull', the two had divided the Sherborne world into mens and corpus, and ruled them respectively for twenty years. Carey was succeeded in his role by that bulldog figure Ross.

1928年的新年，舍爾伯尼變了。史密斯校長的繼任人，是C.L.F.鮑爾黑，他曾在馬爾伯勒做過助教。巧合的是，在校長離開時，正逢體育老師凱瑞去世了，這兩個人被稱爲「首領」和「公牛」，二十年來一直掌管着舍爾伯尼的世界。正是因爲凱瑞，羅斯成了「鬥牛犬」。