《复仇》 第267期:助理的野心

 Well, here she is-- 这位不是

The media's new it girl. 媒体的新宠儿吗

Mm. It's quite an upgrade 对女王最爱的劳工来说

from the queen's favorite worker bee. 实在是一大飞跃啊

I take it you didn't summon me here for an autograph. 我想你叫我来不是要签名的吧

I'm all for a meteoric¹ rise, Ash, 我很支持一举成名  阿什

But, uh, I followed a hunch², 不过  我跟着直觉

and sourced the scandal pics 找到了轰动网络的

that are blowing up the internet. 丑闻照片的来源

And guess where the trail ends. 猜猜最后源头是在哪儿

Who else knows? 还有谁知道这事

Just us... 就我们俩

For now. 暂时如此

Loyalties³ forged in apprehension⁴ and mistrust... 从恐惧与不信任中建立起的忠诚

are tenuous⁵ at best... 薄如蝉翼

Easily broken when held up 在对抗无情的真相之光时

to the unforgiving light of the truth. 就会轻易崩溃

But in the darkness of our most desperate hours... 但在最为绝望的黑暗之中

It's often these loyalties that lend us the strength 常常是这样的忠诚给予我们力量

to do what we know must be done. 完成必须要做的事

 

1 meteoric   

adj.流星的，转瞬即逝的，突然的

参考例句：

• In my mind,losing weight is just something meteoric.在我眼中，减肥不过是昙花一现的事情。
• His early career had been meteoric.他的早期生涯平步青云。

2 hunch   

n.预感，直觉

参考例句：

• I have a hunch that he didn't really want to go.我有这么一种感觉，他并不真正想去。
• I had a hunch that Susan and I would work well together.我有预感和苏珊共事会很融洽。

3 loyalties   

n.忠诚( loyalty的名词复数 )；忠心；忠于…感情；要忠于…的强烈感情

参考例句：

• an intricate network of loyalties and relationships 忠诚与义气构成的盘根错节的网络
• Rows with one's in-laws often create divided loyalties. 与姻亲之间的矛盾常常让人两面为难。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 apprehension   

n.理解，领悟；逮捕，拘捕；忧虑

参考例句：

• There were still areas of doubt and her apprehension grew.有些地方仍然存疑，于是她越来越担心。
• She is a girl of weak apprehension.她是一个理解力很差的女孩。

5 tenuous   

adj.细薄的，稀薄的，空洞的

参考例句：

• He has a rather tenuous grasp of reality.他对现实认识很肤浅。
• The air ten miles above the earth is very tenuous.距离地面十公里的空气十分稀薄。