雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第4章:彼岸新星(28)
Princeton is suiting me very well.
Beyond the way they speak there is only one—no two!—
不過這裏的人們說話有一種固定的模式，絕無例外！features of American life which I find really tiresome, the impossibility of getting a bath in the ordinary sense, and their ideas on room temperature.
美國人的生活方式很討厭，你找不到一個真正意義上的浴缸，而且他們對室溫的看法也很討厭。
By 'the way they speak', Alan meant such complaints as:
對於"說話的方式"，艾倫抱怨如下：These Americans have various peculiarities in conversation which catch the ear somehow.
這些美國人在說話時，會有摸耳朵等各種各樣的怪癖。Whenever you thank them for anything, they say 'You're welcome'.
如果你對他們表示感謝，他們會回答"你是受歡迎的"。I rather liked it at first, thinking I was welcome, but now I find it comes back like a ball thrown against a wall, and become positively apprehensive.
剛開始我還挺喜歡這個說法，我以爲我很受歡迎，但是現在，我覺得這種感覺就像把球打到牆上一樣討厭。Another habit they have is to make the sound described by authors as 'Aha'.
他們還有一個習慣，經常發出"啊"的聲音，They use it when they have no suitable reply to a remark, but think that silence could be rude.
當他們沒有適當的回答時，就用這個聲音來代替，他們認爲保持沉默是不禮貌的。The proofs of Computable Numbers had been sent to him at Princeton just after he had arrived, so that publication of the paper was imminent.
艾倫到達普林斯頓之後，收到了《可計算數》的印刷件，它現在馬上就要發表了。Meanwhile, Alonzo Church had suggested that Alan might be able to give one of the regular seminars, to launch his discovery into the mainstream of Princeton mathematics.
阿隆佐·丘奇建議艾倫召開一個研討會，把他的發現與普林斯頓的主流研究結合起來。On 3 November he had written home:
11月3日他寫信回家：Church has just suggested to me that I should give a lecture to the Mathematical Club here on my Computable Numbers.
丘奇剛纔建議我，給數學俱樂部做一個關於可計算數的講座。I hope I shall be able to get an opportunity to do this, as it will bring the thing to people's attention a bit.
我希望能得到這個機會，讓別人注意到我的研究，I don't expect the lecture will come off for some time yet.
但不知道是否能成功。In fact he only had to wait a month, but then there was a disappointment:
一個月後，他成功了，但後來的結果卻令人失望：
