雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第1章13:圖靈夫人

Turing's fond of the footbAll field

圖靈爲什麼喜歡冰球場

For geometric problems the touch-lines yield

因爲邊線是一道幾何題

Later another verse had him 'watching the daisies grow' during hockey, an image which inspired his mother to a whimsical pencil sketch. And although intended as a joke against his dreamy passivity, there might have been a truth in the observation. For something new had happened.

艾倫的母親，圖靈夫人艾賽兒，還想象着這樣的場面，畫了一幅素描。雖然這只是同學們對他的心不在焉的一種嘲諷，但這句話裏確實有一些真實成分，因爲在這個時期，有一些新鮮的事情發生了。

At the end of 1922, some unknown benefactor had given him a book, called Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know.8 Alan told his mother later that this book had opened his eyes to science. Indeed, it must have been the first time that he became conscious that such a kind of knowledge as 'science' existed. But more than that, it opened the book of life. If anything at all can be said to have influenced him, it was this book which, like so many new things, came from the United States.

1922年末，不知道是誰送給艾倫一本書，叫《兒童必讀的自然奇蹟》。他後來告訴母親，這本書讓他大開眼界，讓他知道了世界上還存在一種知識，叫作科學。這本書，不僅讓他認識到什麼是生命，而且也改變了他的生命之路。如果說，有一樣東西，曾經改變過圖靈，那無疑就是這本來自美國人的書。

The book had first appeared in 1912 and its author, Edwin Tenney Brewster, had described it as … the first attempt to set before young readers some knowledge of certain loosely related but very modern topics, commonly grouped together under the name, General Physiology. It is, in short, an attempt to lead children of eight or ten, first to ask and then to answer, the question: What have I in common with other living things, and how do I differ from them? Incidentally, in addition, I have attempted to provide a foundation on which a perplexed but serious-minded parent can himself base an answer to several puzzling questions which all children ask – most especially to that most difficult of them all: By what process of becoming did I myself finally appear in this world?

這本書出版於1912年，作者埃德文?特尼?布魯斯特如此描述它：「……這是首次嘗試爲年輕的讀者們講述生理話題。總之，這是一次嘗試，啓發孩子們產生這樣的疑問：『我和其他生物有什麼共性？又有什麼區別？』並且給出了回答。另外，孩子們經常會問一些讓人爲難的問題，其中最難回答的就是：『我是怎麼形成的？是怎麼來到這個世界的？』在本書中，我也嘗試爲那些嚴肅卻困惑的家長，提供一些解答這類問題的基本原理。」