雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第4章:彼岸新星(8)
As for the Central Limit Theorem, his fellowship dissertation was entered for the Cambridge mathematical essay competition, the Smith's Prize, that summer.
This caused a flurry down at Guildford, where Mrs Turing and John spent a frantic half-hour on hands and knees doing up the parcel, which Alan had left until the last minute before sending off.
這引起了格爾福特的一陣忙亂，圖靈夫人和約翰花了半個小時，趕在最後一分鐘給他準備好包裹。John had married in August 1934 and Alan had by now become an uncle.
約翰在1934年8月結婚了，艾倫現在做叔叔了。
Neither his brother, nor his parents, had the faintest inkling of the philosophical problems which underlay his work, or which underlay his life.
對於他的哥哥或父母來說，他在工作和生活中遇到的哲學困境，都是另一個世界的事情。News of Alan's successes came as glowing reports from a higher and higher Sixth Form.
艾倫成功的消息現在越來越多。Mrs Turing, with her interest in the spiritual world, would have been the most sensitive to Alan's concern with free will, but even she never saw this fundamental connection.
圖靈夫人對靈魂世界很有興趣，照理說她應該對艾倫關於自由意識的思考最敏感，但即使這樣，她也從未意識到這個問題。For Alan never expatiated on his inner problems, and only occasionally did rather cryptic hints of them emerge.
艾倫從沒有認真地把他的內心困境說出來，他只是偶爾做些非常隱祕的暗示。The university, like King's, took a charitable view of Alan's rediscovery of the theorem, and it won him the prize and hence 31 euros.
國王學院對艾倫的中心極限定理評價很高，讓他獲了獎，還有31英鎊獎金。By now he had taken up sailing as a holiday pastime, and thought of putting the money towards buying a boat.
他現在已經把帆船運動當作假期娛樂了，並打算用這筆錢用來買船。But he decided against it, perhaps needing it for his year in America.
但他最終決定不這麼做，他還要攢錢去美國。
