With Alan fulfilling a consultant role for GCHQ, it may be reasonably supposed that he played a part in suggesting how they should use the universal machine he had promised to Travis six years or so before.

图灵在政密学校担任顾问的角色，可以想见，他一定强烈建议他们引进电子计算机，也就是他六年前向特拉维斯许诺的通用机。

But this was not where his heart lay now.

不过现在，图灵的心已经不在这里了。

As electronic computers began to impinge upon the world economy, Alan Turing continued to back away, and remained engrossed in the otherwise forgotten 'fundamental research'.

当电子计算机开始影响世界的时候，图灵退出了这个江湖，他只愿埋头故纸堆，继续做他无人问津的基础研究。

A big inaugural conference was planned for July, but this work was done entirely by the engineers and Ferranti Ltd.

发布仪式在七月举行，出席的都是工程师和弗兰蒂公司公司的人员。

It was not that Alan got in the way; he simply avoided participation.

图灵没有参加，他不喜欢抛头露面。

No one could have guessed that officially he was paid to 'direct' the laboratory.

没有人能够猜到，他才是正式受任来"指导"实验室的人。

In the spring of 1951 he found a way to off-load his remaining responsibilities when R.A. Brooker, a young man from the Cambridge EDSAC team, called in to have a look at the new machine on his way back from a climbing weekend in west Wales.

1951年春天，图灵找到一个机会，卸下了这个担子。剑桥的EDSAC团队有一位年轻人，名叫R·A·布鲁克，他在周末去西威尔士爬山归来的途中，来到这里，想参观那台新机器。

For reasons of his own he liked the idea of moving to the North, and asked Alan if he had a job to offer. Alan said he did, and in fact Tony Brooker joined later in the year.

他因为个人的原因，想到北方来工作，所以他问图灵，能不能给他安排一下。图灵同意了。同年没过多久，布鲁克就加入了。

Alan's detachment was annoying to the engineers, who felt that their achievement was hardly getting the recognition it deserved within the mathematical and scientific world.

图灵的卸任，使那些工程师们感到很困扰，他们知道，自己在数学和科学方面很欠缺。

In many ways the Computing Laboratory remained as secret as Hut 8, just as computation remained the lowest form of mathematical life.

从某些方面来讲，计算实验室与8号营房的关系，就像计算与数学的关系，对图灵来说，前者只是后者的低级形式。

In the 1951 elections, which took place on 15 March, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society.

1951年3月15日，图灵被选为皇家学会院士，

The citation referred to his work on computable numbers which had, of course, been done fifteen years earlier.

以表彰他15年前，关于可计算数的研究。