雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第5章:解謎接力賽(146)
These developments were begun in the spring of 1942, but were disappointing in their outcome.
Wynn-Williams often seemed about to succeed with the high-speed rotor, but never managed it in that year.
維恩威廉姆斯的快速轉盤似乎總是即將成功，但是一直到年底也沒成功。The stop-testing machine, in contrast, was designed, built and working by the summer of 1942. But it turned out not to be of practical application after all.
停機檢測設備在1942年夏天就設計並製造了，但結果卻很不實用。
Meanwhile Flowers and his colleagues had made suggestions to Keen for the improvement of the Bombes by the inclusion of some electronic components, but these were rejected.
同時，弗洛文斯和他的同事向克伊恩提出了一些關於炸彈機的改進意見，引入一些電子組件，但都被拒絕了。Thus the summer of 1942 saw an unhappy state of affairs and highly frustrated young engineers.
因此在1942年夏天，局面很不愉快。年輕的工程師們非常沮喪。No use had been made of their electronics and Alan, who told them what was required, had not achieved anything either.
他們的電子技術無法發揮作用，焦頭爛額的艾倫沒有看到任何成果。It was a step in the right direction, but the Atlantic remained as opaque as it had become in February.
他們的方向是正確的，但是現在，大西洋仍然還是像2月一樣無法看穿。Hut 8, meanwhile, had acquired more high-level cryptanalytic staff, although the total never rose much above seven.
同時，8號營房又增加了更多的人員，但總人數一直沒有超過7人。At the end of 1941 Hugh Alexander had brought in Harry Golombek, the chess master, who also had returned from Argentina but had been obliged to serve two years in the infantry.
1941年年末，休·亞歷山大帶來了哈利·哥洛博，他是一名象棋專家，從阿根廷回來，並且當了兩年步兵。Then in January 1942 arrived Peter Hilton, who had done just one term at Oxford reading mathematics and was only eighteen.
1942年1月，彼得·希爾頓加入了，他剛在牛津學了一學期數學，還只有18歲。He would describe his initiation thus:
他這樣描述他的師父：... this man came over to speak to me and he said, 'My name is Alan Turing. Are you interested in chess?' And so I thought, 'Now I am going to find out what it is all about!'
……這個男人來找我談話，他說："我叫艾倫·圖靈，你喜歡下棋嗎？我正在研究這方面的問題。"So I said, 'Well, I am, as a matter of fact'. He said, Oh, that is very good, because I have a chess problem here I can't solve.'
我說："這方面我是專家。"然後他說："哇，那真是太好了，我正好有一個問題無法解決。"
