雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第4章:彼岸新星(38)
One clue was 'Role of wily Franciscan', which wittily attracted the party into the bathroom that Francis Price and Shaun Wylie shared, to locate the next clue in the toilet paper.
Shaun Wylie himself was amazingly good at anagrams.
肖恩·懷利發現自己很擅長編寫密碼。There were charades and play-readings, in which Alan joined.
艾倫參加解謎和話劇活動，
At lunchtimes they would play chess and Go and another game called Psychology.
午餐時他們又玩了象棋和其它遊戲，Tennis began as the snow melted, and the hockey was energetically continued.
雪融化時他們開始玩網球，後來又精力十足地玩起了曲棍球。'Virago Delenda Est', wrote Francis Price on the notice board as they set off for an away match, and some bolder spirit crossed out the first 'a'.
這些新人在普林斯頓的運動場上，成立了一個旅美英國人聯盟。On the playing-fields of Princeton, from which in May 1937 they watched the flames of the Hindenburg illuminate the horizon, the new men rehearsed an Anglo-American alliance.
1937年5月，正是在這個運動場上，他們目睹了興登堡號的大火映紅了地平線。Alan enjoyed all this, but his social life was a charade.
艾倫很喜歡這一切，但他的社會生活就是一個謎。Like any homosexual man, he was living an imitation game, not in the sense of conscious play-acting, but by being accepted as a person that he was not.
像任何同性戀者一樣，他的生活就像一場模仿秀，而不是扮演自己的真正角色。The others thought they knew him well, as in conventional terms they did; but they did not perceive the difficulty that faced him as an individualist jarring with the reality of the world.
有些人會覺得自己很瞭解他，某種程度上確實是這樣，但他們並不真正瞭解他面對着多麼艱難的困境。He had to find himself as a homosexual in a society doing its best to crush homosexuality out of existence;
艾倫作爲一個同性戀者，卻要盡最大的努力去消滅同性戀的存在。and less acute, though equally persistent as a problem in his life, he had to fit into an academic system that did not suit his particular line of thought.
還有一個困境不這麼嚴重，但同樣始終與他糾纏，那就是他必須融入學術界的傳統體制，但這種體制並不適合他。In both cases, his autonomous self-hood had to be compromised and infringed.
在這兩件事上，他只能破壞他的自我世界。
