艾伦图灵苹果公司 双语畅销书《艾伦图灵传》第8章:面朝大海(169)

双语畅销书《艾伦图灵传》第8章:面朝大海(169)  

More effective than cold baths
or Nowell Smith's eloquence
it was the oestrogen which had been useful in 'enabling one of the provisions of the Criminal Justice Act
1948
to be carried out.'
相比于冷水浴，或是史密斯校长的训话，雌性激素是更有效的办法，可以使1948年《刑事审判法》的原则得以落实。
It was the beginning of a new era
in which chemical solutions could be found for the problems of social control.
这开创了一个新的领域，即用化学手段解决社会问题。
These advances did not escape the notice of other scientists.
其他科学家也注意到了这个发展。
In 1952 Sir Charles Darwin
who always took a long-term view
published a book called The Next Million Years.
1952年，一直高瞻远瞩的达尔文爵士经过长期研究，出版了《下一个100万年》。
Biology
rather than physics
he held to offer 'the most exciting possibilities'
one being that there might be a drug
which
without other harmful effects
removed the urgency of sexual desire
and so reproduced in humanity the status of workers in a beehive.
其中他从生物学而非物理学的角度，提出了"那些最激动人心的可能性"，其中一个就是：也许会有一种药，没有副作用，它能以人道的方式，抑制急迫的性欲望。
Other chapters in the progress of mankind had given rise to alternative methods of treatment
but these had generally disappointed the experts.
在人类历史中，曾经也有过其它治疗方法，但结果都很令人失望。
Gordon Wesood summed up the experience of analytical psychoanalysts as that of finding homosexuality to present the most problems
of all the cases that they met.
戈登·韦斯伍德总结综述过所有关于同性恋治疗的实验和案例，其中包括脑额叶皮层切除，
Lobotomy had been tried but
as Wesood wrote
this did not seem to be any more 'successful'.
但韦斯伍德认为，这些方法都不成功。