Here at least was something they could speak of freely.
在贝尔实验室，有些东西是他们可以自由谈论的。
Once Alan said at lunch, 'Shannon wants to feed not just data to a Brain, but cultural things! He wants to play music to it!' And there was another occasion in the executive mess, when Alan was holding forth on the possibilities of a 'thinking machine'.
有一次，艾伦在午饭时，滔滔不绝地谈论一台"思考机器"的可能性，他说："香农不光要把数据输入这个大脑，他还要让它能够演奏音乐！"
His high-pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion within the Bell corporation.
艾伦的尖细嗓音，在贝尔实验室那些温文尔雅的年轻主管中，已经显得非常突出了，
Then he was suddenly heard to say: 'No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain.
然而这时突然有另一个声音说："不，我对超级大脑不感兴趣，
All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.'
我只想要个一般的大脑，比如AT&T公司总裁的大脑。
The room was paralysed, while Alan nonchalantly continued to explain how he imagined feeding in facts on prices of commodities and stock, and asking the machine the question 'Do I buy or sell?'
"整个房间都被这句话惊得鸦雀无声，而艾伦却毫不在意，继续谈论他想象中的机器，给它输入商品或股票价格，然后问它"我应该买进还是卖出？"
All afternoon the phone was ringing in his laboratory, with people asking who on earth it was.
整个下午，艾伦的电话响个不停，人们都在问他，这到底是个什么机器。
On 2 February 1943, the German surrender at Stalingrad had marked the turning of the tide.
1943年2月2号，德国在斯大林格勒的失败，标志着浪潮的逆转。
But while the eastern front was turned by sheer brute force, the western powers had the space and time for developments in which force was not the only element.
但是，虽然东线被武力征服，但西线仍有发展的空间和时间，因为这里并非只靠武力。
The intricacy and sophistication of their cryptanalysis was the most extreme example, but this was not the only sphere in which machinery was taking the war out of the old world of duty and self-sacrifice.
复杂而精巧的密码分析，引领战争走出了旧世界，但这并不是唯一的例子。