双语畅销书《艾伦图灵传》第5章:解谜接力赛(153)
日期:2018-10-04 15:13

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Alan knew all about this project, but his active part in the Fish analysis was confined to 'Turingismus'.
艾伦非常了解这个项目,但他对此做出的贡献基本上就只有图灵法。
This, in the autumn of 1942, was taken up by the section called the Testery, where they tried out hand-methods on the Fish traffic—just as, years before, the Enigma decryption had painfully begun.
1942年秋天,图灵法被另外一个部门负责实施,他们使用手工方法来检查鱼机通信,就像几年前刚开始破解谜机的时候一样艰难。
Peter Hilton had been moved there from Hut 8, and then another arrival, in autumn 1942, was that of an even younger man, straight from Rugby School.
8号营房的彼得·希尔顿,被调到那里进行这项工作,另外还有一个更年轻的小伙子,名叫唐纳德·米奇。
This was Donald Michie, who had won an Oxford classics scholarship, and while waiting to do a Japanese course had entered elementary cryptological training.
他获得了牛津大学的奖学金,而且接受过基本的密码分析训练。
His talent recognised, he was thrust into the deep end at Bletchley.
他的才能得到赏识,并被派到了布莱切利的深处。
Both he and Peter Hilton developed Turingismus and reported their ideas back to its originator.
他和彼得·希尔顿一起负责研究图灵法,并把他们的想法报告给艾伦。
Although the news was so unremittingly bleak, and the prospects so uncertain,
虽然战局仍然令人沮丧,前途很不明朗,
1942 could be a wonderful, liberating year for the young, given opportunities and ideas that would never have been possible in peacetime.
但是1942年对于这里的年轻人来说,是精彩而自由的一年,因为他们在这里看到了许多和平时期看不到的机会和想法。
It was in fact his thirtieth birthday when the fall of Tobruk came as the latest in a series of disasters,
在一系列灾难之后,图卜鲁格沦陷了,而就在这时,艾伦迎来了30岁生日。
but to those fresh from school it would be hard to decide whether one so 'schoolboyish' himself could be as much as thirty, or whether one carrying so much intellectual standing could be so young.
这些新来的年轻人们都很喜欢艾伦,他们很难想象,这么一个孩子气的人,竟然已经30岁了。他们同样也很想象,这样一位能力过硬经验丰富的人,竟然只有30岁。

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重点单词
  • enigman. 费解的事情,谜,谜一般的人
  • uncertainadj. 不确定的
  • analysisn. 分析,解析
  • prospectsn. 预期;前景;潜在顾客;远景展望
  • classicsn. 古希腊、古罗马的文学著作 名词classic的复数
  • elementaryadj. 基本的,初级的,元素的
  • intellectualn. 知识份子,凭理智做事者 adj. 智力的,聪明的
  • bleakadj. 萧瑟的,严寒的,阴郁的
  • confinedadj. 幽禁的;狭窄的;有限制的;在分娩中的 v. 限
  • thrustn. 推力,刺,力推 v. 插入,推挤,刺