Turing's fond of the football field
图灵为什么喜欢冰球场
For geometric problems the touch-lines yield
因为边线是一道几何题
Later another verse had him 'watching the daisies grow' during hockey, an image which inspired his mother to a whimsical pencil sketch. And although intended as a joke against his dreamy passivity, there might have been a truth in the observation. For something new had happened.
艾伦的母亲,图灵夫人艾赛儿,还想象着这样的场面,画了一幅素描。虽然这只是同学们对他的心不在焉的一种嘲讽,但这句话里确实有一些真实成分,因为在这个时期,有一些新鲜的事情发生了。
At the end of 1922, some unknown benefactor had given him a book, called Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know.8 Alan told his mother later that this book had opened his eyes to science. Indeed, it must have been the first time that he became conscious that such a kind of knowledge as 'science' existed. But more than that, it opened the book of life. If anything at all can be said to have influenced him, it was this book which, like so many new things, came from the United States.
1922年末,不知道是谁送给艾伦一本书,叫《儿童必读的自然奇迹》。他后来告诉母亲,这本书让他大开眼界,让他知道了世界上还存在一种知识,叫作科学。这本书,不仅让他认识到什么是生命,而且也改变了他的生命之............