雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第7章:運轉起來(63)
More precisely, the point was that electronic components could be regarded as operating upon discrete, on-or-off, quantities, and so could realise a Turing machine.
This he had learnt in 1942, and thereafter he had known all about the Robinsons, the X-system, and the Rockex; he had also picked up a fund of radar knowledge from his new friends at Hanslope.
圖靈在1942年就掌握了這一點，後來他又掌握了關於羅賓遜機、X系統和勞凱克斯機的相關知識，他還從漢斯洛普的新朋友那裏，學到了很多雷達方面的知識。But above all there were the two developments that had begun in 1943.
但最重要的兩個進展，發生於1943年。
Whatever its usefulness to the war effort, the technical success of the Colossi told him that thousands of electronic valves could be used in conjunction—something that few could have believed in until it had been done.
巨人機的技術成功讓圖靈認識到，成千上萬的電子管真的可以連接起來，在實際成功之前，幾乎沒有人相信這一點。And then he had worked with his own bare hands on the Delilah. There had been a method in his madness all along.
接下來他徒手研究黛麗拉，用了一套幾乎是發瘋的方法。By working in these second-rate conditions, on a device that officialdom had not called for, he had proved that he could carry off an electronic project of his own.
在惡劣的條件下，用一臺官僚們淘汰下來的破設備，他證明了自己可以獨立承擔電子工程項目。Coordinated with his theoretical ideas and his experience of mechanical methods, this direct knowledge of electronic technology formed the last link in his plans.
在他的理論想法和機械經驗的基礎上，電子科技知識成爲他的計劃中的最後一塊拼板。He had learned how to build a brain—not an electric brain, as he might possibly have imagined before the war—but an electronic brain.
他已經知道了如何建造一個大腦，不是他戰前想象的電動大腦，而是電子大腦。It was thus that 'round about 1944', Alan's mother heard him talking about 'his plans for the construction of a universal (machine) and of the service such a machine might render to psychology in the study of the human brain.'
因此，大約在1944年，艾倫的母親聽到他說，他要建造通用機，並用它來研究人類大腦的工作原理。
