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But for Alan, who was excluded from the smarter circles of Cambridge society for his lack of sophistication, the more straightforward approach was an attraction.
但对于艾伦来说，这个因为缺乏修养而被剑桥的时髦圈子排除在外的人，则更加喜欢这种简单直接的风格。
In that way America suited him–but not in other respects. To his mother, he wrote on 14 October:
从这一方面来说，美国很适合艾伦，但仅仅是在这一方面。10月14日，艾伦写信给母亲：
Church had me out to dinner the other night. Considering that the guests were all university people I found the conversation rather disappointing.
丘奇前几天晚上带我出去吃晚餐。同座都是大学的人，我觉得交谈挺令人失望的。
They seem, from what I can remember of it, to have discussed nothing but the different states they came from.
他们基本上只谈他们来自哪个州，没有别的内容，
Description of travel and places bores me intensely.
还聊了一些旅行景点，反正我觉得十分无聊。
He enjoyed the play of ideas, and in the same letter he let slip a hint of ideas in which Bernard Shaw himself might have found a plot:
他喜欢思维的游戏，在这封信中，他隐隐地提到了一个想法，也许萧伯纳会认为这是一个阴谋：
You have often asked me about possible applications of various branches of mathematics.
你经常问我数学的各个分支有什么用。
I have just discovered a possible application of the kind of thing I am working on at present.
我刚刚发现，我现在的研究可能有一种用处。
It answers the question 'What is the most general kind of code or cipher possible', and at the same time (rather naturally) enables me to construct a lot of particular and interesting codes.
它让我认识到什么是最通用的加密方法，它使我能够构造很多特殊、有趣的密码。
One of them is pretty well impossible to decode without the key, and very quick to encode.
其中有一种的加密速度非常快，而且如果没有密钥是不可能解开的。
I expect I could sell them to H.M. Government for quite a substantial sum, but am rather doubtful about the morality of such things. What do you think?
我想以可观的价钱把它卖给英国政府，但不知道这是否有违道德。你怎么想呢？
