福尔摩斯：基本演绎法 第一季第8集The Long Fuse（16）

 

You have 23 days.

你还有23天

Then our time is up.

然后我们就散伙

My name is Alfredo, and I'm an addict¹.

我叫阿弗雷多，我是个瘾君子

Hi, Alfredo.

你好，阿弗雷多

Started boosting cars when I was 14.

我14岁就开始偷车

By the time I turned 18,

到了18岁的时候

I was the best there is.

我就成了当地最好的偷车贼

Ain't a car in the city I can't steal.

城里没有我偷不了的车

Him.

就是他

Hmm? Now I'm flush with cash,

什么， 现在我钱多得花不完

I'm bored... I turn to drugs.

我觉得没劲...所以吸毒寻找刺激

I want him to be my sponsor.

我要他做我的担保人

Took my first hit at 19...

19岁我第一次吸毒...

This phrase, "On your beam ends,"

这个短语， "你已在船梁之末"

it appears in five of the seven threats.

七封恐吓信中有五封都出现了这句

I'm certain I've heard it before;

我以前肯定听过

I just... can't recall where.

只是...想不起在哪

"On your beam ends."

"你已在船梁之末"

A nautical² idiom first documented

这是个航海术语，首次出现是在

in Captain Frederick Marryat's 1830 novel

弗雷德里克·马里亚特上校1830年的小说

The King's Own,

《王权直属》里

signifying a situation of great peril³.

意指非常危险的境地

Strange for such an aberrant⁴ phrase

这么一个生僻的短语反复出现

to appear so repeatedly.

真是太奇怪了

1 addict   

v.使沉溺；使上瘾；n.沉溺于不良嗜好的人

参考例句：

• He became gambling addict,and lost all his possessions.他习染上了赌博，最终输掉了全部家产。
• He assisted a drug addict to escape from drug but failed firstly.一开始他帮助一个吸毒者戒毒但失败了。

2 nautical   

adj.海上的，航海的，船员的

参考例句：

• A nautical mile is 1,852 meters.一海里等于1852米。
• It is 206 nautical miles from our present location.距离我们现在的位置有206海里。

3 peril   

n.(严重的)危险；危险的事物

参考例句：

• The refugees were in peril of death from hunger.难民有饿死的危险。
• The embankment is in great peril.河堤岌岌可危。

4 aberrant   

adj.畸变的，异常的，脱离常轨的

参考例句：

• His aberrant behavior at the party shocked everyone.他在晚会上的异常举止令所有人感到震惊！
• I saw that the insects and spiders were displaying the same kind of aberrant behavior.我看到昆虫和蜘蛛正在表现出相同反常的行为。