Alan posed a difficult problem. It was not in question that he must adapt to public school life. But what public school would cater best for a boy whose principal concern was to do experiments with muddy jam jars in the coal cellar? It was a contradiction in terms. As Mrs Turing saw it, 11

这件事情确实很棘手，艾伦必须得适应公学生活，否则哪个公学会喜欢一个整天用泥巴和果酱做实验的学生？这是一个很严重的矛盾。图灵夫人说：

Though he had been loved and understood in the narrower homely circle of his preparatory school, it was because I foresaw the possible difficulties for the staff and himself at a public school that I was at such pains to find the right one for him, lest if he failed in adaptation to public school life he might become a mere intellectual crank.

在小学时期，艾伦的生活圈子很小，大家能够理解他，并且喜欢他。但是，如果他去了公学，肯定会遇到很多困难。为了给他找个合适的学校，我真的煞费苦心，生怕他不能适应公学的生活，变成一个高智商低情商的怪物。

Her pains were not prolonged. She had a friend called Mrs Gervis, the wife of a science master at Sherborne School, a public school in Dorset. In spring 1926 Alan took the examination again, and was accepted by Sherborne.

但她的苦恼并没持续很久。她有一位朋友，格维斯夫人，是舍尔伯尼公学一位教师的妻子。1926年春天，艾伦再次参加了考试，并进入舍尔伯尼。

Sherborne was one of the original English public schools, whose origins12 lay in the abbey which itself was one of the first sites of English Christianity and in a charter of 1550 establishing the school for local education. In 1869, however, Sherborne had fallen into line as a boarding school on Dr Arnold's model. After a period of low repute, it had revived in 1909 when a Nowell Smith was appointed headmaster. By 1926 Nowell Smith had doubled the roll from two hundred to four hundred, and had established Sherborne as a moderately distinguished public school.

舍尔伯尼是一所历史悠久的英国公学，它最初是个修道院，1550年开始搞教育，到了1869年，彻底变成了学校。1909年，在一阵低迷期过后，诺威尔.史密斯担任了校长，学校由此开始复兴。到了1926年，诺威尔.史密斯已经使学生规模从200人增长到400人，把舍尔伯尼建成了比较卓越的公学。