福尔摩斯：基本演绎法 第一季第8集The Long Fuse（15）

 

Effluvium, fussbudget, Cairo.

恶臭，吹毛求疵，开罗

9 across, 14 down, 32 down.

横9 竖14 竖32

I-I have a sort of thing for puzzles.

我是填字游戏天才

When I first tried getting clean,

在我第一次戒毒的时候

I started drinking.

我开始酗酒

Before long, I realized that I had swapped¹

不久以后，我发现其实我只是

one addiction² for another.

换了一样上瘾的东西

Please put those away.

拜托你别看了

"You cannot stop this. You can only submit.

"你不能阻止我，你只能服从

Submit or be destroyed"

服从，或是被毁灭"

That's something the ELM would say.

地球解放自卫队就会这么说

Here...

这里...

Not the time, not the place.

不是现在，别在这儿

I'm sorry, but from a forensic³ linguistics⁴ standpoint,抱歉，但从法律语言学的角度看these threats are quite fascinating.

这些恐吓信写得太好了

For example, I see clues here that would suggest比如说，我能从这里的线索发现that the ELM was not an organization, per se,地球解放自卫队本身并不是一个组织but one man posing as an organization.

而是一个伪装成组织的个人

Seriously, can you just examine those at home?

说真的，你能回家再看吗

We have work to do here.

我们在这有事要做

Oh, yeah. Sponsor Search 2012.

哦对， 2012担保人大搜寻

I have to say, Watson,

我不得不说，华生

it's a bit of a motley crew tonight.

今晚在这的都是一群乌合之众

I don't think these are my kind of addicts⁵.

我跟他们可不是一个型的

I think this is going to be a much longer

我觉得这过程

and more involved process than we initially⁶ thought.

会比我们预想的更漫长更复杂

1 swapped   

交换（工作）( swap的过去式和过去分词 )； 用…替换，把…换成，掉换（过来）

参考例句：

• I liked her coat and she liked mine, so we swapped. 我喜欢她的外套，她喜欢我的外套，于是我们就交换了。
• At half-time the manager swapped some of the players around. 经理在半场时把几名队员换下了场。

2 addiction   

n.上瘾入迷，嗜好

参考例句：

• He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
• Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。

3 forensic   

adj.法庭的，雄辩的

参考例句：

• The report included his interpretation of the forensic evidence.该报告包括他对法庭证据的诠释。
• The judge concluded the proceeding on 10:30 Am after one hour of forensic debate.经过近一个小时的法庭辩论后，法官于10时30分宣布休庭。

4 linguistics   

n.语言学

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• Linguistics is a scientific study of the property of language.语言学是指对语言的性质所作的系统研究。

5 addicts   

有…瘾的人( addict的名词复数 )； 入迷的人

参考例句：

• a unit for rehabilitating drug addicts 帮助吸毒者恢复正常生活的机构
• There is counseling to help Internet addicts?even online. 有咨询机构帮助网络沉迷者。 来自超越目标英语 第3册

6 initially   

adv.最初，开始

参考例句：

• The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
• Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。