雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:面朝大海(204)

Alan spoke of this 'crisis' in the computer laboratory, to Norman Routledge, and to Nick Furbank, with whom he stayed briefly at the end of March, while attending a conference on computers at the NPL.

在計算機實驗室裏，圖靈還對諾曼講了這次"危機"。後來他去國家物理實驗室，參加一場計算機研討會時，又對佛本科講了這件事。

But he never 'told all', dismissing the story as another absurd police folly, involving his own house being under watch.

但圖靈並沒有講出故事的全部，他彷彿只是以自己的住處被警察監視爲背景，在講述一部有趣的荒誕劇。

It did not occur to those whom he told that there was a different kind of explanation for what had happened.

他所告訴的那些人，對所發生的事觀點一致。

His letter to Robin said no more, and passed on to other concerns: I've got a shocking tendency at present to fritter my time away in anything but what I ought to be doing.

在他給羅賓的信中，也沒有說更多，他把話題轉向：我現在的狀態很糟糕，每天都碌碌無爲，用各種事情消磨時間，不想做那些該做的事。

I thought I'd found the reason for all this, but that hasn't made things much better.

其實我知道原因是什麼，但知道又有什麼用？

One thing I've done is to rig the room next (to the) bathroom up as electrical lab. Am not doing very well over your vision model.

我把浴室隔壁的屋子，改成了一個電子實驗室，但估計沒有你想象的那麼好啦。

In this 'laboratory' he was able to do 'desert island' experiments of an electrolytic kind, using current from the electricity mains supply.

在這個實驗室裏，圖靈可以做一些電子化的"荒島實驗"了。

He would use coke as electrodes, saying that using carbon sticks from old batteries was a form of cheating, and weed juice as a source of oxygen.

爲了保證"荒島性"，他用焦炭作爲電極，而不用舊電池裏的碳棒，並利用草汁來製取氧氣。

He liked to see how many chemicals he could produce, starting from common substances like salt-much as he would have done at Dinard if his mother had allowed it.

他想試看看，自己在這樣的原始環境下，能夠造出多少種化學物質。他從最平常的物質開始，比如食鹽。其實若不是母親阻止，當年在迪納時，他就已經能製出鹽了。

The room he used was in fact a small space left in the middle of the house when the bathroom had been carved out of a larger room.

圖靈夫人不讓他做這些實驗，主要是擔心他會搞出意外，也許正是爲了嘲諷這種擔憂，

He called it 'the nightmare room'—playing on Mrs Turing's fears of an accident.

圖靈把這間實驗室（其實是爲間隔浴室而留出的一個小空間）命名爲"惡夢室"。