雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第5章:解謎接力賽(79)
But anyone could see that a U-boat force just three times larger, enjoying a corresponding degree of success, would have a crippling effect both on the level of current supply, and on the total stock of shipping.
Each U-boat was sinking more than twenty ships in its life-time, and there was no counter-strategy while the U-boat remained invisible.
每艘潛艇至少會擊沉20艘船，而且當它潛入水底時，拿它一點辦法也沒有。It was the logical, rather than the physical, power of the U-boat that was its strength.
要想對付潛艇，相比於物理的力量，更關鍵的是邏輯上的力量。
It was the German failure to follow up this tremendous advantage against its only remaining enemy that allowed a period of reprieve in which to counter this logical power with new weapons of information and communication.
德國的失敗就在於，沒有利用這個極大的優勢，來追打它唯一存留的敵人，反而給了這敵人喘息之機，容他們發展出了新型的通信武器，來發揮邏輯的力量。Radio direction finding and radar had already joined sonar in taking the Admiralty a short way beyond the resources of Nelson. The work of Hut 8 was still far behind.
無線電測向和雷達已經加入了聲納，使海軍部離納爾遜的資源很近。“小屋”8的工作仍遠遠落後。Alan had begun his investigation of the naval Enigma messages on his own, but then was joined (for a time) by Peter Twinn and Kendrick.
艾倫現在已經開始研究海軍謎機了，後來（有段時間）彼得·吐溫和肯德里克也加入進來了。Clerical work was done by women who would be called 'big room girls'.
文書工作由一些被叫做“大屋女孩”的女性人員來做。Then in June 1940 there was a new mathematical recruit:
1940年6月，又僱用了一名新的數學家：Joan Clarke, who was one of several 'men of the Professor type' to be a woman.
瓊·克拉克，她是幾個“男專家”中的一員，但實際上是個女性。So in the summer of 1940, Alan Turing found himself in the position of telling other people what to do, for the first time since school.
在1940年夏天，艾倫圖靈發現，自己擁有了指揮別人的地位，這是公學畢業之後的第一次。It was like school inasmuch as the WRNS and the 'big room girls' played the role of 'fags', and because it meant meeting, or avoiding, members of the armed services.
就像在公學一樣，女勤隊和大屋女孩扮演了跟班的角色，而且他要負責接洽武裝部門的成員。
