福尔摩斯：基本演绎法 第一季第8集The Long Fuse（29）

 

It was nice to be out in the country.

郊外的感觉真好

Would you excuse us a moment?

能让我们单独谈一会吗

Sure. Excuse me.

当然， 失陪了

Mrs. Singh was right... her husband is dead.

辛格夫人是对的，她丈夫的确去世了

He has been for quite some time.

他已经过世有一段时间了

What are you talking about?

你在说什么啊

The photograph at the end of the mantelpiece,壁炉架尾端的那张照片中it shows Pradeep and Mrs. Singh sitting on the sofa.

普莱蒂和辛格夫人坐在沙发上

It was taken in the same room that we were sitting in.

就是在我们刚坐过的房间拍摄的

I noticed several discrepancies¹ between the wall我注意到照片中的墙in the photograph and the one that we were facing.

与我们所面对的墙有几处不符

The spacing between the paintings was all wrong.

图片之间的距离不一样了

In the photograph,

在照片中

they were approximately 18 centimeters apart.

它们的间距大概是18厘米

In the room, 12 centimeters.

房间中则是12厘米

There also hang lower now by about 10 centimeters.

悬挂的位置也降低了大概10厘米

Someone took them all down,

有人把它们都取了下来

put them back up again,

又重新挂了上去

didn't get the measurements right.

但弄错了照片之间的距离

So, Himali moved them?

所以是海玛丽移动了它们

She says she hasn't had any work done in that room,她说她没动过那个房间and when I took the frames off the wall,

当我把相框从墙上取下来时

I saw that she was right-- there's no old nail holes我发现确实如此，墙上没有that correspond to the frames' original arrangement.

符合相框原始位置的钉孔

There is, however, a slight bulge².

但是墙上有个小鼓包

Bulge?

鼓包

The center of the wall is almost imperceptibly convex.

墙的中心呈细微的拱形

1 discrepancies   

n.差异，不符合（之处），不一致（之处）( discrepancy的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• wide discrepancies in prices quoted for the work 这项工作的报价出入很大
• When both versions of the story were collated,major discrepancies were found. 在将这个故事的两个版本对照后，找出了主要的不符之处。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 bulge   

n.突出，膨胀，激增；vt.突出，膨胀

参考例句：

• The apple made a bulge in his pocket.苹果把他口袋塞得鼓了起来。
• What's that awkward bulge in your pocket?你口袋里那块鼓鼓囊囊的东西是什么？