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That's where the problem was in the method of Flach and Kolyvagin that I'd extended,
這個問題正出在我進行拓展了的弗拉赫和科里瓦金的方法之中，
so once I realised that at the end of September,
因此我在9月末一意識到
that there was really a problem with the way I'd made the construction,
在我搭建架構(gòu)的的方法當(dāng)中確實有一個問題時
I spent the fall trying to think what kind of modifications could be made to the construction.
我用了整個秋天來考慮對于這個架構(gòu)可以做什么樣的修改。
There are lots of simple and rather natural modifications, any one of which might work.
有許多簡單而且自然而然的修改方法，其中之一可能行得通。
And every time he would try and fix it in one corner some other difficulty would add up in another corner.
而每次當(dāng)他試著改好一個方面，又會有些難題加在另一個方面上。
It was like he was trying to put a carpet in a room where the carpet had more size than the room,
這就好似他想要給一個房間鋪上地毯，而地毯的尺寸要比房間的大，
but he could put it in any corner and then when he ran to the other corner, it would pop up in this corner
但他可以先將任何一個角拉平，但他跑向另一個角時，這個角上的就會翹起來，
and whether you could not put the carpet in the room was not something that he was able to decide.
是否可以將地毯安穩(wěn)地置入房間之中不是他能夠決定的事。
I think he externally appeared normal but at this point he was keeping a secret from the world
我想從外表來看他一如平常，但在此時他對外守著一個秘密，
and I think he must have been in fact pretty uncomfortable about it.
我認為事實上他一定是對此相當(dāng)?shù)夭皇娣?/div>
Well you know we were behaving a little bit like Kremlinologists.
要知道，我們的行為就有點像是蘇聯(lián)政體研究者。
Nobody actually liked to come out and ask him how he's getting on with the proof,
沒人會愿意出頭問他那證明進行得怎么樣了，
so somebody would say I saw Andrew this morning.
所以倒會說今天早上我看到安德魯了。
Did he smile? Well yes, but he didn't look too happy.
他笑了嗎？是的，但看不去不怎么高興。
The first seven years I'd worked on this problem, I loved every minute of it.
我研究這個難題的頭七年，每分鐘我都喜歡。
However hard it had been there'd been setbacks often, there'd been things that had seemed insurmountable
不管有多么艱難，經(jīng)常有多少挫折，有多少看來是不可逾越的事情，
but it was a kind of private and very personal battle I was engaged in.
但那是一種我所進行的隱秘而非常個人的戰(zhàn)斗。
And then after there was a problem with it,
而接著出現(xiàn)了一個問題
doing mathematics in that kind of rather over- exposed way is certainly not my style and I have no wish to repeat it.
在那種相當(dāng)過度曝光的方式下研究數(shù)學(xué)肯定不是我的風(fēng)格，而且我不愿意去重復(fù)它。
