福尔摩斯：基本演绎法 第一季第6集Flight Risk（8）

 

I'm about to disabuse¹ you of several notions,

我要纠正你几个概念

so please listen very carefully.

麻烦你听听好

One, my father does not care about me.

第一，我爸根本不会关心我

He does what he does out of a sense of familial obligations.

他所做的从某种意义上来说是家庭责任

Big difference.

这两者根本不同

Two, he does not care about you

第二，他也压根不在乎你

or what you think.

或者你的想法

Meeting you would be a formality.

见你不过是走形式而已

Three, as I've already told you,

第三，我告诉过你的

your concern is unwarranted, 'cause he has absolutely

你的担心是多余的，因为他

no intention of showing up tonight.

今晚压根不会出现

How could you possibly know that?

你怎么这么确定

Because he is a serial² absentee.

因为他是习惯性爽约

A pathological maker³ and breaker of promises.

一个病态的，不遵守承诺的人

Been that way since I was a boy.

从我小时候就这样了

Fool me once, shame on you.

愚弄了我一次，可耻的是你

Fool me ad nauseam...

欺骗我到了令人作呕的程度

Holmes.

福尔摩斯

Got something for you and the captain.

我有进展要告诉你和警监

Captain, just got off the phone with

警监，刚刚接到沃特·戴夫林公司的

one of the junior partners at Walter Devlin's firm.

一个次级合伙人打来的电话

He said that Devlin, Hank Gerrard and Ellie Wilson

他说戴夫林，汉克·杰拉德和艾莉·威尔逊

were headed to a retreat in Martha's Vineyard to work on

是飞往玛莎葡萄岛闭关并致力于

a class action case against a company called Carmanto Foods.

同卡曼陀食品公司的集体诉讼案

There were allegations that the company's

有指证说他们公司的

sugar substitute causes cancer.

糖替代物致癌

Plaintiffs were seeking damages

原告要求赔偿

in the neighborhood of a hundred million.

接近一亿的巨款

1 disabuse   

v.解惑；矫正

参考例句：

• Let me disabuse of that foolish prejudices.让我消除那个愚蠢的偏见。
• If you think I'm going to lend you money,I must disabuse you of that wrong idea.你若认为我会借钱给你，我倒要劝你打消那念头。

2 serial   

n.连本影片，连本电视节目；adj.连续的

参考例句：

• A new serial is starting on television tonight.今晚电视开播一部新的电视连续剧。
• Can you account for the serial failures in our experiment?你能解释我们实验屡屡失败的原因吗？

3 maker   

n.制造者，制造商

参考例句：

• He is a trouble maker，You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼，你不要跟他在一起。
• A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。