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Monday 18 August 1947 was declared to be the official start to the building of the ACE.
1947年8月18日，星期一，ACE的制造工作正式启动。
Darwin presided over a special morning.
达尔文主持了一场晨会。
Alan attended, but said nothing.
图灵也到场参加了，但却一言未发。
Womersley, reporting to Darwin that the ACE should be complete by early 1950, was satisfied. In theory the ACE was still a venture of immense national importance, and Hiscocks had called this its 'D-Day'.
沃默斯利得意地向达尔文报告，ACE将于1950年年初竣工。ACE是一项回报率巨大的风险投资，希斯考克把这场晨会称为ACE的"诺曼底之日"。
The truth, however, was that the NPL had now almost succeeded in cutting the ACE down to its own bureaucratic size.
为了满足政治需要，国家物理实验室几乎已经成功地把ACE阉成了太监，
Only Alan Turing prevented the triumph being complete, awkwardly remaining to voice the original vision. On 30 August he wrote to Darwin that
现在只有图灵还在顽强地阻止这场"胜利"，他尴尬地坚持着自己的想法。8月30日，图灵写信给达尔文：
A letter has come from Ministry of Supply ...asking us to do their programming for them.
军需部来信……要求我们承担一些编程工作。
This is work that we ought to be able to undertake, but it will not be possible with our present very small programming staff.
这项工作从技术上来说，我们是可以做到的，但是我们目前的编程人员数量太少，所以实际上不可能完成。
This staff is quite inadequate for our own needs; it will have to be at least three times greater than it has been up to now, if we are to make a success of the ace project.
现有的人员，对于我们自己的项目来说，已经是非常紧张了，要想让ACE项目获得成功，至少需要三倍的工作人员。
The arrival of Mr D.W. Davies ...will, of course, be of some help, but we need in addition another two or three bright (Scientific Officers) ...immediately.
D·W·戴维斯先生的到来，自然是很有一些帮助的，但是我们仍然需要立即再增加两到三位科学家……
It is essential to recruit the ace planning staff now, because it must be trained and in full production long before the machine itself is available for use.
立即为ACE项目招募预备人员，这是非常紧要的，因为在机器完工之前，必须有足够的时间对他们进行培训。
A large body of programming must be completed beforehand, if any serious work is to be done on the machine when it is made.
如果我们想在机器竣工后马上做出一些像样的成果，那么就有大量的编程工作需要事先完成。
