雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第3章:思考什麼是思考(50)
Alan was at the one place that could support that development.
而艾倫處在一個能夠發展的地方。
Here, after all, was the circle round which Forster passed the manuscript of his novel Maurice which conveyed so much about being 'an unmentionable of the Oscar Wilde sort'.
這裏畢竟是福斯特傳播他的小說手稿《莫瑞斯》的地方。這本書說做一個微不足道的王爾德，
How to complete the work, that was one problem.
但要想實現這件事，卻有一個問題，
It had to have its own integrity of feeling, yet be credible as a story of the real world.
那就是這本書必須是一個符合現實世界的故事。
There was a fundamental contradiction, which was not resolved by having his hero escape into the 'greenwood' of a happy ending.
但實際上它卻不是，其中有一個矛盾──主人公最後隱入山林了。
There was another contradiction, in that this attempt at communication remained secret for fifty years.
還有另一個矛盾是，必須保守祕密五十年。
But here at least was the place where these contradictions were understood,
但是，這裏仍是一個能夠協調這些矛盾的地方。
and although Alan's self-contained nature placed him on the edge of King's society, he was protected from the harshness of the outside world.
儘管國王學院把艾倫排擠到了邊緣，但至少能保護他不受到外面更殘忍的世界的傷害。
