雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第3章:思考什麼是思考(41)
But the world of Keynes and Forster, the parties and comings and goings of Bloomsbury people, lay far above Alan's head.
但是凱恩斯和福斯特，布魯斯伯裏派，對艾倫來說，卻是高高在上的。
There was a glossiness about King's, whose greatest strength lay in the arts, and drama in particular, in which he had no share.
國王學院的強項在於藝術，特別是戲劇，但這對艾倫來說，卻將它拒之門外。
He would have been too easily deterred and frightened by the more theatrical elements in expressing his homosexuality.
當艾倫表演着最戲劇的元素──同性戀時，他受到了太多的威懾和恐嚇。
If at Sherborne his sexuality was described in terms of 'filth' and 'scandal', he now also had to come to terms with that other kind of labelling that the world found so important: that of the pansy, an affront and traitor to masculine supremacy.
如果說，在舍爾伯尼，他的性取向被打上下流和骯髒的標籤，那麼現在，他同樣要忍受一個外界覺得很重要的標籤──對雄性權利的背叛。
He did not find a place in this compartment; nor did the King's aesthete set, flourishing in its protected corner, reach out to a shy mathematician.
在這裏，他找不到立足之地，在國王學院，沒有一個合適的角落，能容納這位靦腆的數學家。
As in so many ways, Alan was the prisoner of his own self-sufficiency.
在很多方面，艾倫就像個作繭自縛的囚徒，國王學院能做的，
King's could only protect him while he worked out the problems for himself.
只是在他自己想要走出來的時候，對他給予保護。
It was the same with regard to religious belief, for while agnosticism was all but de rigueur in King's, he was not the person to follow a trend, only to be stimulated and liberated by the freedom to ask hitherto forbidden questions.
在宗教信仰上也是一樣，當國王學院將不可知論奉爲一切時，他拒絕跟隨潮流，他只是對觸及禁忌的自由而感到刺激。
In developing his intellectual life, he did not form the social connections that a less shy person could have made.
他在發展他的學術生涯方面，並未形成一個正常人的社會關係，他不像他的大部分朋友，
Unlike most of his close acquaintances, he was a member neither of the 'Ten Club' nor of the Massinger Society – two King's undergraduate societies of which the first read plays and the other discussed far into the night, over mugs of cocoa, papers on culture and moral philosophy.
他既不是第十社也不是麥森格社的成員――這是兩個國王學院學生社團，他們一起讀劇本，談論到深夜，喝着可可飲料，探討關於文化和道德哲學的論文。
