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Spender also does not seem to have remarked on Oppenheimer's eyes, which had a kind of wary luminescence. Siamese cats make a similar impression. But more important, Oppenheimer appears in Spender's journal as a disembodied figure with no contextual relevance to Spender's own life.
斯彭德似乎也沒有對奧本海默的那雙總是閃著一種謹慎的寒光的眼睛進行評論。暹羅貓的眼睛也可以給人一種類似的感覺。但是更更重要的是，出現在斯彭徳的日志中的奧本海默是一個游離于斯彭德本人的生活環境之外的脫離實體的人物。
There is no comment about the fact that, three years earlier, Oppenheimer had been "tried" for disloyalty to this country and that his clearance had been taken away. One of the charges brought against him was that his wife, Katherine Puening Oppenheimer, was the former wife of Joseph Dallet, who had been a member of the Communist Party and who had been killed in 1937 fighting for the Spanish Republican Army. In 1937, Spender was also a member of the Communist Party in Britain and had also spent time in Spain. Did Oppenheimer know this? He usually knew most things about the people who interested him. Did "Kitty" Oppenheimer know it? Did this have anything to do with the fact that, during Spender's visit, she was upstairs "ill"? Spender offers no comment. What was he thinking? There were so many things the two of them might have said to each other, but didn't. They talked about the invasion of the Suez Canal.
日記中也沒有評論這樣一個事實：三年前奧本海默曾因被疑為對國家不忠而受到“審訊”，其接觸國家機密文件的權利被剝奪。不利于他的一項指控是他的妻子凱瑟琳·普寧·奧本海默也是約瑟夫·戴勒特的前妻。約瑟夫·戴勒特曾是一名共產黨員，在1937年與西班牙共和軍的戰斗中犧牲。同一年，斯彭德也是英國共產黨員，當時也在西班牙。奧本海默知道這件事嗎？他總是知道他所感興趣的人的大多數事情。“基蒂”·奧本海默知道這件亊嗎？這與斯彭德來訪期間她正在樓上養“病”避而不見的事實是否有關？斯彭德在日記里沒有任何評述。他那時在想什么？他們兩人有許多可以互相傾訴的事情，卻什么都沒談，談的只是蘇伊士運河的入侵。
In the fall of my second year at the institute, Dirac came for a visit. We all knew that he was coming, but no one had actually encountered him, despite rumored sightings. By this time, Dirac, who was in his mid-fifties, had a somewhat curious role in physics. Unlike Einstein, he had kept up with many of the developments and indeed from time to time commented on them.
我在研究院的第二年的秋天，狄拉克來到這里訪學。我們都知道他要來，卻沒有人真的遇到過他，盡管謠言有人看到他在遠處的身影。當時已經50多歲的狄拉克，在物理學界仍然占據游有點奇怪的一席之地。與愛因斯坦不同的是，他能夠緊跟研究領域的發展形勢，還能不時地品頭論足一番。
