雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第4章:彼岸新星(12)
September 13: … Alan did problems with R(eginald) … Alan Rup(ert) and 2 girls bathed at Cadbury's pool … Rup(ert) and Alan tea with me …
Alan tried to explain what he is working at … they went off to catch 7.45 New Street.
艾倫努力講解他正在研究的東西……他們走了。It would have been hard for Mrs Morcom to feel that this 'abstruse branch of logic' had anything to do with the scientific imagination of her lost son, so that Alan had done something that Christopher had been called away from.
默卡夫人無法體會，這個"深奧的邏輯分支"與他失去的孩子在有什麼關係，她不知道艾倫研究的這些事情怎麼就把克里斯朵夫召喚去了。
Mrs Turing saw Alan off at Southampton on 23 September, when he embarked on the Cunard liner, the Berengaria.
9月23日，圖靈夫人在南安普頓爲艾倫送行，把他送上了冠達公司的拜倫加利亞號郵輪。He had picked up a sextant in the Farringdon Road market to amuse himself on the voyage.
艾倫在弗靈頓路的市場上買了一個六分儀，作爲航行中的消遣。He also went equipped with all the standard upper-middle-class British prejudices about America and Americans, and the five days on the Atlantic did little to disabuse him.
他還帶上了所有中上層英國人對美國和美國人的偏見。五天的大西洋之旅，絲毫沒有改變他的偏見。From '41°20′N, 62°W', he complained:
在"北緯41度20分，西經62度"處，他抱怨道：It strikes me that Americans can be the most insufferable and insensitive creatures you could wish.
我很驚訝，美國人簡直是最讓人不能忍受、最遲鈍的一種生物。One of them has just been talking to me and telling me of all the worst aspects of America with evident pride.
剛纔有一個人來和我聊天，展現了美國糟透了的一面。However they may not all be like that.
當然，他們也不會全都是這個樣子。
