雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:面朝大海(248)

The difference was that Burgess and Maclean were from the upper middle class and Cambridge, the nurseries of British administration.

然而，伯格斯和麥克林卻不同，他們出身於上流階級，而且畢業於有着"政治家搖籃"之稱的劍橋大學。

Previously it might have been assumed that the public school training would guarantee those subtly distinguished loyalties to house and school,

在這之前，人們毫不懷疑，從公學走出去的人，都是非常忠於國家的人。

and during the war the British government had saved itself the laborious and expensive surveillance of personnel that had been requiRed in the less trusting United States.

而且在戰爭時期，英國政府沒有采取美國那種"懷疑一切"的管制政策，節省了大量的人力資源。

But now, bafflingly, the public school code had been broken, and something new had to be done.

但是現在，人們困惑了，公學的信譽破產了，必須要採取一些新的手段了。

The form taken by the new procedures was not, however, entirely the result of the Red Queen's flight.

然而這些新的手段，並不完全基於紅皇后的經驗，

It was an aspect of the managerial revolution, overtaking the legacy of more aristocratic government, and also a reflection of the American alliance.

它不但擺脫了貴族統治的後遺症，而且充分體現了英國與美國的結盟關係。