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Dear Mrs Morcom,
亲爱的默卡夫人：
I want to say how sorry I am about Chris. During the last year I worked with him continually and I am sure I could not have found anywhere another companion so brilliant and yet so charming and unconceited. I regarded my interest in my work, and in such things as astronomy (to which he introduced me) as something to be shared with him and I think he felt a little the same about me. Although that interest is partly gone, I know I must put as much energy if not as much interest into my work as if he were alive, because that is what he would like me to do. I feel sure that you could not possibly have had a greater loss.
我想说，关于克里斯我有多么难过。去年我和他一起工作和学习，我想我再也找不到像他那样聪明而迷人、又不自负的伙伴了。我很喜欢和他分享我的工作，还有他推荐我学习的东西，比如天文学。我想他对我也有同样的感觉。虽然他已经不在了，但我知道，我要像他还活着一样，在我的工作中，保持那个劲头。尽管物是人非，但这应该是他希望我做的。你懂的，这是人生最悲痛的事了。
Yours sincerely, Alan Turing
真诚的艾伦?图灵
I should be extremely grateful if you could find me sometime a little snapshot of Chris, to remind me of his example and of his efforts to make me careful and neat. I shall miss his face so, and the way he used to smile at me sideways. Fortunately I have kept all his letters.
如果你能寄一些克里斯的照片给我，我将感激不尽。他的照片可以作为榜样，提醒我努力，细心，整洁。我很想念他的脸，还有他在小路上对我笑的样子。还好，我保存了他写给我的所有的信。
Alan had awoken at dawn, at the time of the funeral:
艾伦那天清晨醒来，在葬礼上的时候：
I am so glad the stars were shining on Saturday morning, to pay their tribute as it were to Chris. Mr O'Hanlon had told me when it was to take place so that I was able to follow him with my thoughts.
我很高兴的是，星期六早上，那些星星也来参加葬礼了，向克里斯致哀。奥汉兰先生告诉我，克里斯会继续活在我的心中。
Next day, Sunday, he wrote again, perhaps in more composed form, to his mother:
第二天，星期天，他更加沉痛地写信给母亲：
Dear Mother,
亲爱的妈妈：
I wrote to Mrs Morcom as you suggested and it has given me a certain relief.…
我依你的建议给默卡夫人写信了，这让我产生了一种信念……
… I feel sure that I shall meet Morcom again somewhere and that there will be some work for us to do together, and as I believed there was for us to do here. Now that I am left to do it alone I must not let him down but put as much energy into it, if not as much interest, as if he were still here. If I succeed I shall be more fit to enjoy his company than I am now. I remember what G O'H said to me once 'Be not weary of well doing for in due season ye shall reap if ye faint not' and Bennett* who is very kind on these occasions 'Heaviness may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning'. Rather Plymouth brotherish perhaps. I am sorry he is leaving. It never seems to have occurred to me to try and make any other friends besides Morcom, he made everyone seem so ordinary, so that I am afraid I did not really appreciate our 'worthy' Blamey and his efforts with me for instance.…
我相信，我一定会在某个地方再次遇到默卡，在那里，我们又可以一起工作。现在，我要暂时独自前行，我不能让他失望，就算物是人非，我也要保持一样的干劲，就像他还活着一样。我只有获得成功，才能有资格享受他的陪伴。我记得奥汉兰对我说过“付出总会有收获”，还有善良的伯纳特说“在夜里要忍耐，因为清晨的欢愉就要到来”。我很难过默卡离开了我，我不想再与任何人交朋友了，他让所有人看起来都那么平庸，我想我甚至不是真的欣赏布来梅……
