雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:面朝大海(145)

The sociologist 'Gordon Westwood', whose book Society and the HoMosexual opened the British debate in 1952, described male homosexuality in all of these ways, one after the other.

社會學家戈登·韋斯伍德的《社會與同性戀》在1952年引起了英國公衆的討論，他逐一從各種角度描述了男性同性戀行爲。

Reaching a wider audience, the Sunday Pictorial's series of reports on 'Evil Men' also broke what it called 'the conspiracy of silence on the subject' the same year,

《星期日畫報》關於"罪惡男人"的系列報道也引來了更多的關注者，打破了所謂的"緘默之陰謀"，

and likewise treated it from a modern psychological and social perspective, rather than in terms of the law.

他們是從現代心理學和社會學的角度來看待這個問題，而不是從法律角度。

'Most people', the newspaper explained, 'know there are such things—“Pansies”—mincing effeminate, young men who call themselves queers.'

"我們都知道這樣的事，"報道中說，"有些年輕的男人，走着女性化的小碎步，把自己稱作『酷兒』。"

But these obvious 'freaks and rarities', it continued, represented but the tip of the iceberg.

他接着說，這些表面上的"怪人和異類"，只是冰山一角，其深處隱藏的問題。

The problem was far greater than most people realised, and the time had come to tackle it.

比大多數人想象的更爲嚴重，需要更長時間才能解決。

One of the difficulties pervading these discussions was that no single description was adequate to the matter in hand, although there was an obvious virtue to each of them.

這些討論都涉及到一個難題，即雖然每一種描述方式都有一些可取之處，但對於解決問題來說，卻又都是不夠的。

There were certainly many homosexual acts—in schools, for example—which had little to do with deep-seated desires, nor with a social 'minority'.

有很多同性戀行爲，與"慾望"和"社會圈子"都沒什麼關係，比如說在學校裏。

In contrast, the diffuse, romantic ambience of The Cloven Pine fell into no category recognised by the English criminal law.

相反，《邪惡之鬆》的浪漫氣氛沁人心脾，但它卻是英國刑法所禁止的。

While there were others, like Arnold, who did not know what they wanted, but who were very familiar with the social patterns, with their advantages and disadvantages, of what a Methodist minister, quoted in the Sunday Pictorial, called 'the worst city for homosexuality that I have been in'.

還有一些人，比如阿諾德，他並不知道自己想要什麼，但他卻非常清楚一種社會模式的運作關係及其利益點，一個衛理公會牧師，在星期日畫報上，稱“我所經歷過的最糟糕的同性。