双语畅销书《艾伦图灵传》第7章:运转起来(38)
It was like the last two terms at school, staying on after having won a scholarship, without any clear function but accorded a gratifying respect.
In August 1944, at about the same time as he came to live at the Hanslope mess, a small extension was built on to the large laboratory hut, and one of the four ten-foot by eight-foot rooms in it was allocated for work on Delilah.
1944年8月，差不多在他住进汉斯洛普军官中心的时候，大实验室扩张了许多，有了四个10英尺×8英尺的房间，其中一间被分配给黛丽拉的研究工作。This gave him a more self-contained world in which to experiment, read, and think for the future.
这给了图灵更多的个人空间，他在那里做实验、阅读、思考未来。
It was an odd position for 'the top cryptanalyst in England', waiting for his opponent to concede the game now dragging on and on.
这位英国顶级解密专家，现在就在这里跟他的德国对手进行拉锯战。The Delilah project made more sense now that he had a qualified engineer to sort it out, but even this had been something of an accident.
在那位靠谱的工程师过来帮忙之后，黛丽拉项目有意思多了，但这是个意外之福，Don Bayley had not been assigned to it, but had been obliged to enveigle his way into participation, and there were always pressures on him to forsake it for other duties.
唐·贝利本来并没被安排过来，他只是勉强参与进来，而且经常会被人施压，要求他为其它工作而离开这里。Alan was irritated when this happened and would sometimes help in getting them out of the way.
每当发生这种事，图灵就会很生气，并帮助他摆脱压力。Once, for instance, his advice was sought on the question of whether the 'wide-band' amplifiers, used in the process of distributing signals from a single large aerial to several different receivers, were introducing an element of noise into the system.
图灵建议研究一下，当使用一个大天线将信号分发到几个不同的接受点时，如果使用宽带放大器，是否会引入噪声。He devised some experiments for testing them and did a little theoretical analysis. For this there was an outing to Cambridge, to search for appropriate literature on thermal noise.
他设计了一些验证实验，为此需要去一趟剑桥，检索有关热噪声的文献。They had the privilege of an official car, and Don Bayley was rather pleased at being able to make a first visit to Cambridge.
他们有权使用专车，唐·贝利很高兴自己第一次拜访剑桥。Before they went, Alan told the others not to call him 'Prof' while they were there.
在出发前，图灵提醒他们，到了之后不要称呼他为"教授"。
