雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第3章:思考什麼是思考(7)

Alan was also interested in perspective drawing:

艾倫現在對畫透視圖很感興趣：

This week's efforts in drawing are not on any better paper … I don't think much really of Miss Gillet's efforts. I remember she did once or twice say something in a vague sort of way about parallel lines being drawn concurrent, but she usually had the slogan 'vertical lines remain vertical' on the tip of her tongue. I wonder how she managed drawing things below her. I have not been doing much by way of drawing bluebells and things like that but mostly perspective.

這周我們畫畫了……但是我不聽吉麗特小姐講得那一套。她就講了一些很模糊的方法，畫平行線，然後有一些“讓垂線保持垂直”之類的口訣。我倒想知道，她怎麼畫低於視線的東西？我不按她說的畫，我用的是透視法。

Mrs Turing wrote to Mrs Morcom:

圖靈夫人給默卡夫人寫：

… Alan has taken up drawing which I was anxious for him to do long ago: I think this is quite likely an inspiration from you. He is quite devoted to you and I think he was just wishing for an excuse to pay you a call when he went up to Town the day after saying 'Goodbye' to you! You were all most awfully good to him, and in many ways opened up a new world to him.… Whenever we were alone he wanted to talk just of Chris and you and Col. Morcom and Rupert.

……艾倫喜歡上了畫畫。我以前一直很苦惱他不喜歡這個，我想，他是從你那得到了鼓舞。我覺得他真的很喜歡你，就在與你告別的第二天，他非要跑到城裏去，爲了給你打個電話。你對他實在是太好了，從很多方面爲他打開了新的世界……每當我們單獨一起時，他總會談起克里斯，你，還有默卡上校和拉普特。

Alan hoped this summer to gain an improved mark in the Higher Certificate. His name was put down for Pembroke College, Cambridge, which awarded a number of scholarships on Higher Certificate marks alone, although he half-hoped to fail, so that he would have a chance of trying for Trinity. He did fail for he found the mathematics paper much more difficult than in the previous year, and his marks showed no improvement. But Eperson reported:

艾倫希望能在夏天的高等認證考試中考得好一些。他報了劍橋大學彭布羅克學院，它的獎學金很高，要求的分數也很高。雖然他只有一半的勝算，但只有這樣他纔有機會挑戰三一學院。結果他失敗了，數學卷子比去年難了很多，所以他的分數並沒有提高。但愛普森在報告中說：

… I think he has succeeded in improving his style of written work, which is more convincing and less sketchy than last year…

……我想他已經成功地改善了數學風格，比去年好多了，馬虎少多了……