雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第4章:彼岸新星(78)

By 1937 it was established that, unlike their Japanese and Italian counterparts, the German Army, the German Navy and probably the Air Force, together with other state organisations like the railways and the SS used,

在1937年，與日本和意大利不同，德國的陸軍、海軍，也許包括空軍，還有一些其它組織比如納粹黨衛軍，使用了一種完全不同的通信系統——謎機。

for all except their tactical communications, different versions of the same cypher system—the Enigma machine which had been put on the market in the 1920s but which the Germans had rendered more secure by progressive modifications.

這種機器在20年代就已經推向市場了，德國人通過不斷的修改，使它更加安全。

In 1937 GC and CS broke into the less modified and less secure model of this machine that was being used by the Germans, the Italians and the Spanish nationalist forces.

1937年，政府編碼密碼學校已經破解了修改之前的原型，它被德國、意大利、西班牙等一些勢力使用。

But apart from this the Enigma still resisted attack, and it seemed likely that it would continue to do so.

但是現在的新型謎機，我們無法破解，而且它似乎能繼續堅持下去。

The Enigma machine was the central problem that confronted British Intelligence in 1938.

在1938年，這個謎機就是英國情報問題的核心。

But they believed it was unsolvable.

但是他們認爲，這個問題是無法解決的。

Within the existing system, perhaps it was.

以他們目前的人員來看，也許確實是這樣的。

In particular, this department of classicists, a sort of secret shadow of King's down in Broadway Buildings, did not include a mathematician.

在這個古典主義者的部門中，甚至一位數學家都沒有。

No addition was made to permanent staff in 1938 to meet this striking deficiency.

1938年，仍然沒有增加長期員工來彌補這個缺陷。