雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第4章:彼岸新星(9)
Victor Beuttell came to stay with Alan at Cambridge in the early summer.
Alan was returning the hospitality that the Beuttells had offered him but another reason for Victor's visit was that he had now joined the family firm and had been set to work on developing the K-ray system.
他們雙方都非常熱情。維克托來訪的一個重要原因是，他現在加入了家庭企業，正在致力於開發K射線系統。The geometry that he had discussed with Alan at school had helped him, but he was hoping to have Alan's advice on the new problem which was to make a double-sided system so that both sides of a poster could be illuminated evenly by a single light source.(It was required by a brewery chain).
他和艾倫在學校時討論的幾何學幫助了他，他希望從艾倫這裏得到一些建議。他要做一個雙面的系統，兩面都有海報，只用一個光源，使它們都能均勻地反光（這是一個啤酒連鎖企業要求的）。
Alan, however, said he was too preoccupied with his own work, and instead they went off to watch the May Bumps boat races.
然而艾倫說他正在致力於自己的研究，於是他們只是一起觀看了"五月激情"船賽。Once they were talking about art and sculpture and it was in this connection that Alan suddenly amazed Victor by saying that he found the male form beautiful, and the female unattractive.
有一次，他們在聊藝術和雕塑，就在這時，艾倫突然說了句讓維克托很驚奇的話。他說他覺得男性的身體結構很美，而女性的身體則很醜陋。Victor now found himself a double crusader, and tried to convince Alan that Jesus had indicated the right course by befriending Mary Magdalene.
維克托試圖使艾倫相信，耶穌與瑪麗亞的關係，已經指明瞭正確的道路。Alan had no answer to this, but then this was not a problem of reason.
但艾倫對此不置可否，這不是一個有答案的問題。All he could do was to express the sensation of being in a Looking-Glass world, in which from his point of view the conventional ideas were the wrong way about.
他所能做的，就是表達自己身處鏡中奇遇世界的感受，在這個世界裏，傳統的想法在他看來都是錯的。This was probably the first time that he opened the subject outside the King's ambience.
這大概是他第一次在國王學院之外，提起這個話題。
