雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:面朝大海(247)

Unlike the American Senate, the British legislature was not expected to interfere so openly with the practice of government.

與美國參議院不同，英國立法機構不敢這樣明目張膽地干涉政府行爲，

But the same pressures of the modern world were at work, and there was an event which had goaded the British government into taking parallel steps.

但國際環境的壓力也同樣影響着英國，所以在發生了一個事件之後，英國政府自身也採取了相似的措施。

It was on 25 May 1951 that the two Foreign Office officials Burgess and Maclean disappeared, and then on 10 June the Sunday Dispatch had drawn attention to the disappearance, dropping a strong hint that it was time to follow the American policy of 'weeding out both sexual and political perverts'.

這個事件發生在1951年5月25日，外交部的兩名官員，伯格斯和麥克林，突然神祕失蹤了。6月10日，《星期日電訊報》報道了這次失蹤，並且極力暗示英國政府，應該向美國學習，採取強硬措施，清洗性異常者。

British 'security' had come under scrutiny the previous year, with the Fuchs case being heard.

自從富克斯案件發生以後，英國對安全問題本來就非常擔憂。

But Fuchs was a German refugee, and the atomic bomb project had been highly irregular, resting largely upon the work of exiles who in 1940 could not be trusted with anything that seemed likely to be important.

但與失蹤案件不同的是，富克斯是一個德國流亡者，這些流亡者在40年代是不受信任的，原子彈項目大量使用了這樣的人員，這是該項目本身存在的管理缺陷。