雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第9章:退隱山林(12)
She was struck by Alan, with 'his off-hand manners and his long silences-silences finally torn up by his shrill stammer and the crowing laugh which told upon the nerves even of his friends'; there was his 'strange way of not meeting the eye' and of 'sidling out of the door with a brusque and offhand word of thanks.'
Nor did he compromise with Manchester society by associating with the small homosexual set centred on the university, In this respect life centred still on Cambridge.
圖靈沒有加入曼徹斯特的同性戀羣體，他的性生活仍然留在劍橋。The exile in Manchester meant in particular a separation from Neville, whom over the next two years he would visit at Cambridge every few weeks.
他自我流放到曼徹斯特，與奈維爾分開了，在接下來的兩年中，他每過幾周，就會去劍橋找他。
Neville was taking a two-year postgraduate course in statistics.
奈維爾已經修完了兩年統計學的研究生課程。At Easter 1949 they had another short holiday together in France, cycling and visiting the Lascaux Caves.
1949年他們一起去法國，度過了一個短暫的假期。他們一起騎單車，還遊覽了拉斯科巖洞。The prehistoric paintings rather suited Alan, who always wanted to draw nature from scratch himself.
圖靈很喜歡那些原始的壁畫，他常常想畫一些速寫來描繪自然。Alan also spent the August of each year back for the long vacation in King's, rather as he had in 1937.
就像1937年一樣，圖靈回到國王學院，度過8月。So King's retained its protective role, and Robin in particular was the White Knight in the forest, as the most helpful character in the story.
國王學院繼續擔當他的守護神，尤其是羅賓，就像白騎士一樣，爲他提供了最多的幫助。In other ways, Robin was not the White Knight at all, being rather dashing and energetic.
但在其它方面，羅賓根本不是白騎士，他比圖靈更不安分。Later he acquired a powerful motor-cycle and a full set of black leathers, and sometimes took Alan for rides in the Peak District.
他搞了一輛馬力很大的摩托車，有時會帶着圖靈去皮克區飆車。Alan told his friends about the Princeton treasure hunts, and he, with Robin, Nick Furbank and Keith Roberts, organised several of them over the next few years.
圖靈給他的朋友們講了普林斯頓的尋寶遊戲，在接下來的幾年裏，他跟羅賓、尼克·佛本科、凱斯·羅伯茲一起，組織起來玩了幾次。Alan would run round in search of the clues, while the others would cycle.
圖靈負責研究線索，其他人負責騎車。
