雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第5章:解謎接力賽(99)
Whatever the capacities and dedication of the individuals, the system had not adjusted to the scale and significance of the information it processed.
If Bletchley had its successes through traditional British virtues of teamwork and of getting on with the job without a fuss, it suffered from limitations derived from an equally traditional British shabbiness and paltriness.
如果說布萊切利的成功是得益於英國傳統的合作與認真之美德，那麼它同樣飽受了英國傳統的遲緩和吝嗇之苦。In Hut 4 they had their own tracking charts in order to deduce the meaning of grid references and so forth,
在4號營房，他們有自己的追蹤圖來簡化座標查詢等工作，
and it must have seemed that they could easily take on all the work of plotting and guiding the convoys more effectively than the OIC.
在有效偵察或引導護航隊等方面，他們工作起來要比作戰情報中心容易得多。But this was a problem common to the higher reaches of the war effort, as young scientists and academics found themselves confronting the peacetime establishment.
但是，在作戰效率方面，此時還有一個更深層次的問題。在這個時期，這些年輕的科學家和學者們，內心都產生了一種聯想。In many ways, the war was, for Alan Turing's generation, the continuation of the conflicts expressed in another language in 1933.
從很多方面來說，對於艾倫這一代人，這場戰爭就是在延續1933年的衝突。They were not taking orders from brainless brass-hats, and, more positively, government was forced to adopt the central planning, scientific methods, and remedies for depression that had been argued for in the 1930s.
那時候他們不服從無腦領袖的領導，他們迫使政府採取中央計劃和科學手段對大蕭條進行補救。Bletchley was at the heart of this struggle. It was in 1941 that:
現在，布萊切利就處在一個這樣的漩渦的中心。在1941年：GC and CS had increased in size four-fold in the first sixteen months of the war.
政密學校的規模在戰前16個月時的基礎上擴大到了4倍。At the beginning of 1941 it was by Whitehall standards poorly organised.
1941年初，它的組織結構十分混亂。This was partly because the growth in its size and in the complexity of its activities had outstripped the experience of those who administered it. …
部分原因是因爲規模的迅速增長和行動的複雜性，這些超出了管理人員的經驗範圍。
