《神探夏洛克》精讲 434影响记忆

这太荒唐了

This is obscene.

我所做的  费斯  亲爱的

All I'm doing, Faith, dear...

不过是把我心里的话说出来

..is getting something off my chest,

却又不影响到你们

without getting it on yours.

我下面要说的话也许会吓到你们  但是

What you're about to hear me say may horrify¹ you, but...

你们会忘记的

..you will forget it.

仔细想想

If you think about it,

文明向来依靠

civilisation² has always

某种程度上的选择性无知

depended on a measure of elective ignorance.

这些点滴将会精准地控制你们血液里

These drip feeds will keep the drug in your bloodstreams

药物的剂量

at exactly the right levels.

你们对即将发生的事只会有

Nothing that is happening to you now will stay with you

几分钟的印象

for more than a few minutes.

恐怕你们现在所

I'm afraid that some of the

记得的一些事

memories you've had up to this point

也可能会

might also be...

受到影响

..Corrupted³.

1 horrify   

vt.使恐怖，使恐惧，使惊骇

参考例句：

• His family were horrified by the change.他的家人对这一变化感到震惊。
• When I saw these figures I was horrified.我看到这些数字时无比惊骇。

2 civilisation   

n.文明，文化，开化，教化

参考例句：

• Energy and ideas are the twin bases of our civilisation.能源和思想是我们文明的两大基石。
• This opera is one of the cultural totems of Western civilisation.这部歌剧是西方文明的文化标志物之一。

3 corrupted   

（使）败坏( corrupt的过去式和过去分词 )； （使）腐化； 引起（计算机文件等的）错误； 破坏

参考例句：

• The body corrupted quite quickly. 尸体很快腐烂了。
• The text was corrupted by careless copyists. 原文因抄写员粗心而有讹误。