福尔摩斯：基本演绎法 第一季第2集 While You Were Sleeping（22）

Do you you close yourself off to people and

你把自己封闭起来

deny yourself things that might bring you pleasure...

还拒绝能带给你快乐的事情

not because it makes you a better investigator¹,

不是因为这能让你成为更优秀的侦探

but because it's some sort of penance²?

而是某种自我惩罚吧

Penance?

自我惩罚

For what happened in London.

因为在伦敦发生的事

Being addicted³.

你吸毒的原因

I don't know. I guess it just occurred to me

我不知道，我只是突然想到

that it might be something

人可能会在

that someone might do and not even know it.

无意识的情况下惩罚自己

Well, you always know it, Watson.

其实是有意识的，华生

If you didn't,

要是无意识的

it wouldn't be penance.

就不叫自我惩罚了

1 investigator   

n.研究者，调查者，审查者

参考例句：

• He was a special investigator for the FBI.他是联邦调查局的特别调查员。
• The investigator was able to deduce the crime and find the criminal.调查者能够推出犯罪过程并锁定罪犯。

2 penance   

n.（赎罪的）惩罪

参考例句：

• They had confessed their sins and done their penance.他们已经告罪并做了补赎。
• She knelt at her mother's feet in penance.她忏悔地跪在母亲脚下。

3 addicted   

adj.沉溺于....的，对...上瘾的

参考例句：

• He was addicted to heroin at the age of 17.他17岁的时候对海洛因上了瘾。
• She's become addicted to love stories.她迷上了爱情小说。