双语畅销书《艾伦图灵传》第5章:解谜接力赛(144)
日期:2018-09-27 11:34

(单词翻译:单击)

The point was that electronic valves could respond in a millionth of a second, there being no moving parts but the electrons themselves, while the electromagnetic relay had to make a physical click.
电子管的反应时间只有0.000001秒,与电磁继电器不同的是,它本身并不发生物理上的移动,而是其中的电子在移动。
Here lay the possibility of a thousand-fold increase in speed at a time when they were frantic.
这为他们带来了提速1000倍的希望。
But electronic valves were notoriously prone to failure, besides being hot, cumbersome, and expensive.
但是电子管也有缺点,比如温度高,成本高,
There were few people with the knowledge and skills required for using them.
而且没几个人懂得如何使用。
More precisely, applications to Bletchley problems required the use of electronic components in logical systems, to act as switches in place of relays.
准确地说,布莱切利现在的问题,就是要将系统中的继电器升级成电子管。
But the pre-eminent use of the electronic valve had remained that of acting as an amplifier in radio reception.
电子管在这之前的主要用途是作为无线电接收机的放大器,
It was a quite different matter to think of electronic components as providing on-or-off switches, although the principle had been demonstrated in 1919.
现在要用它们来做开关,完全不是同一回事,虽然其原理在1919年就发现了。
In this respect Wynn-Williams had the advantage of having pioneered electronic Geiger counters, and so was one of the even fewer people aware that electronics could be applied to a discrete problem.
维恩威廉姆斯的优势就在这里,他在电子盖革计数器方面的先驱工作,使他成为少数几个懂得如何将电子技术用于离散问题的人之一。
While radar research had created a fund of high-powered electronic expertise, TRE was not the only establishment with electronic engineers.
电子通信研究所并不是唯一拥有电子工程师的机构。
There was also the Post Office Research Station, located in the London suburb of Dollis Hill.
此外还有坐落在伦敦郊区的邮政实验室。
It had been established to protect the Post Office, in its installation of a modern telephone system, from the monopolistic practices of the equipment manufacturers.
这个研究所要保障电话系统不被个别设备制造商垄断。
It was the vanguard of what was the only state-owned industry of the 1930s, and despite being run on a shoestring, had maintained a high level of research.
尽管他们规模不大,但却搞出了高水平的研究。
Its young engineers, picked out by fierce competition, had ambitions and skills which went far beyond the opportunities offered in the 1930s economic climate.
这里的年轻工程师们,都是在激烈的竞争中选拔出来的,有着领先于30年代的雄心和技术。

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