雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第9章:退隱山林(10)
He retained his connection with the Walton Athletic Club, and sometimes ran for them, as in the London to Brighton relay race on 1 April 1950.
His competitive days were, however, coming to a close and he ran more as a solitary exercise,
不過他參加比賽越來越少了，基本上都是一個人跑，Sometimes he ran into Manchester, though more often he cycled through the scrubby suburbs to work, cutting a comic figure in a yellow oilskin and hat when it rained.
有時他會跑步去曼徹斯特大學，但更多的時候是騎單車，下雨天時，他會穿着一件滑稽的帶有卡通圖案的黃色油布雨衣。
Later he added a small motor to his bicycle, but he never acquired a car: 'I might suddenly go mad and crash,' he told Don Bayley rather dramatically.
後來他給他的單車安裝了一個小型發動機，但他從來沒有過一輛汽車，他對唐貝利說：“我說不定哪天就會突然發瘋，然後就會出車禍。”He had not done too well at Princeton with the car, and probably tended to daydream with mathematical thoughts in a dangerous way.
他在普林斯頓時，就沒有學好開車，他總是走神，思考一些數學問題。He preferred in any case to use his own steam, He cared little for the Victoria University, as it was officially called, taking what he found relevant and ignoring the rest.
圖靈很少關心大學裏的事情，他只關注跟他自己有關的，然後忽略其餘的一切。For him there were those who were serious, in his own sense, and those who were not, and he wasted no time on the latter. This had little to do with formal positions.
他會主觀地區分，哪些人是正經的，哪些人是不正經的，然後絕不在後者身上，浪費一丁點兒時間。In September 1947, just as Alan effectively left the NPL,
1947年9月，就在圖靈真正離開國家物理實驗室時，they had appointed a young engineer, E.A. Newman, who did have knowledge of pulse electronics from his experience of the H2S airborne radar system.
他們任用了一名年輕的工程師，名叫E·A·紐曼，他從事過H2S機載雷達系統的工作，因此具備脈衝電子技術方面的經驗。Ted Newman, also a strong runner, used to go to Manchester to see Alan every month or so.
這位紐曼也是個強壯的跑步運動員，以前經常來曼徹斯特看圖靈。Beside training together, they would argue for hours about the idea of intelligent machinery.
除了在一起訓練之外，他們還會對智能機器的想法爭論幾個小時。In contrast, Alan would repulse abruptly any kind of ingratiating shop talk from those who might well be more academically qualified.
相反的是，那些更專業的學術人士，如果想跟圖靈討論一些問題，常常會被他斷然拒絕。
