福尔摩斯：基本演绎法 第一季第6集Flight Risk（20）

 

Actor.

演员

Well, a struggling one at that.

好吧，是有点费解

Your Mr. Sherlock

夏洛克先生

hired me from my manager.

从我上司那雇了我

Said it wouldn't be a problem if I took

他说我今晚

his father's place tonight because...

可以用他父亲的位子，因为

Dad never shows. Dad never shows.

他爸根本不会来， 他爸不会来

I was discussing an artificial¹ sweetener

我刚在说一个

with a suspect earlier on.

有嫌疑的人造甜味剂

Yeah, looks and feels like regular sugar,

看起来很像一般的糖

but it's not.

但它不是

There are minute differences,

只有细微的不同

carcinogenic ones in that case,

却可能是致癌物

but it got me thinking about some unusual sand这让我想起了在事故现场I noticed at the crash site.

发现的一些不寻常的沙子

It was new, hadn't been weathered by the elements yet.

很新，还没有被风化

First I thought, "Well, the city must have trucked it in刚开始我想"肯定是城建部门装运了它们to offset² erosion³ on the beach,"

防止在沙滩上被腐化"

but according to the Parks Department,

但根据城建部门说

they haven't done that at Far Rockaway

洛克威在过去的一年内

in over a year, so how did the sand

没有做过这事，那么这些沙

make it there?

怎么会在这儿

1 artificial   

adj.人工的，人造的，人为的；做作的，假装的

参考例句：

• The new dam will form a large artificial lake behind it.新筑的水坝将会在后面形成一个人工湖。
• We don't use any artificial flavourings in our products.我们的产品不使用任何人工调味剂。

2 offset   

n.分支，补偿；v.抵消，补偿

参考例句：

• Their wage increases would be offset by higher prices.他们增加的工资会被物价上涨所抵消。
• He put up his prices to offset the increased cost of materials.他提高了售价以补偿材料成本的增加。

3 erosion   

n.腐蚀，侵蚀，磨损，削弱，减少

参考例句：

• The erosion of beach here is serious.这里海岸的腐蚀很严重。
• Drought and soil erosion had long been a major problem.干旱和水土流失一直是个老大难问题。