雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:水銀延時線(47)
It was entirely in line with his original report that as experience was gained with writing instruction tables, he should modify aspects of the hardware design.
It was consistent, too, that he should sacrifice a certain amount of simplicity for the sake of greater speed.
以及爲了更高的速度，他需要犧牲一定的簡潔性。All the same, the assembling of actual components could not begin too soon for him; the paper 'tables' were intended for a real machine, not as theoretical exercises.
還有一點，不能過早地進行實際的硬件裝配，因爲現在要做一臺真正的機器，這跟理論設計完全是兩碼事。
In this respect, however, development was very far from speedy.
然而，這些方面的實際發展卻是舉步維艱。There was an overwhelming problem with the ACE project.
ACE項目現在面臨着一個致命的障礙，This was that although the PL had a Radio Division, it did not have a single electronic engineer capable of appreciating, let alone implementing, Alan's ideas.
那就是雖然國家物理實驗室有個無線電部門，但是那裏卻沒有一個工程師，能夠獨立地把圖靈的想法變成現實。Back in December 1944, Womersley had told the Executive Committee that plans for new machines 'could be put into effect only by cooperation between the Division and certain industrial organisations—possibly along the lines of extra-mural development contracts.'
早在1944年12月，沃默斯利就向執行委員會提議，新型機器計劃必須依靠各部門與工業界的共同合作，可能需要對外簽訂一些外包合同。But no progress had been made towards making this cooperation possible.
但是這種合作並沒得到真正地落實。There was one solid medium-term possibility, that of having English Electric, a firm with which Darwin had connections, manufacture a machine to commercial standards. Its director, Sir George Nelson, had attended the March meeting.
達爾文與英國電力公司有聯繫，他們有能力生產商業水平的機器，那裏的負責人喬治·尼爾森也參加了3月的那場會議，But it was not at all clear who was to do the immediate development work.
但現在還不清楚眼下的開發工作該由誰來負責。This was no small impediment to the confident hope expressed in Alan's report of being able to produce the equipment for the logical control within six months.
然而圖靈在當初的報告中，卻滿懷自信的聲稱，完全能在六個月內生產出合適的邏輯控制設備，這一點沒有任何問題。
