《童话镇》第291期:你是个矮人

 And, uh, would you leave your clothes in the car? 那你也会不带行李上路吗

Time to pull Kathryn's phone records and find out who she spoke¹ to last. 我们得调出凯思琳的通话记录 看看她最后和谁打了电话

Yeah, you know, if you go through the sheriff's department it'll take you days to get those. 不过  如果你走警局的正规程序估计得要几天才能拿到

I've got a contact over at the phone company who used to help me ot when I was at the newspaper. I can get those in a couple hours. 我在电信公司有关系 我还在报社干时  他帮了我不少忙 我几小时就能拿到

Great. Call me the minute you get your hands on those phone records. 那行 一拿到通话记录就立刻打给我

There he is. 他来了

Time to break the news. 应该告诉他这个消息了

You really think he doesn't know? 你真以为他不知道吗

I'm about to find out. 我马上就会搞清楚

Arms up. 手臂抬起来

What am I? 我是什么

You're a dwarf². 你是个矮人

What am I doing? 我在干吗

Being cleaned. 净身

Who is the woman I saw? 我看见的那个女人是谁

What woman? 什么女人

The one I saw right before I hatched.She was beautiful. I want to see her again. 在我孵出来之前见到的那个她好漂亮  我还想再见到她

Ha! You must be dreaming.There are no female dwarfs³. 笑话  你肯定是在做梦 根本没有女矮人

Dwarfs don't fall in love, dwarfs don't get married, and dwarfs don't have children. 矮人不会坠入爱河 矮人不会结婚 矮人也不会生孩子

Why do you think you were hatched from an egg?  不然你以为你为什么会从蛋里孵出来的

 

1 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

2 dwarf   

n.矮子，侏儒，矮小的动植物；vt.使…矮小

参考例句：

• The dwarf's long arms were not proportional to his height.那侏儒的长臂与他的身高不成比例。
• The dwarf shrugged his shoulders and shook his head. 矮子耸耸肩膀，摇摇头。

3 dwarfs   

n.侏儒，矮子（dwarf的复数形式）vt.（使）显得矮小（dwarf的第三人称单数形式）

参考例句：

• Shakespeare dwarfs other dramatists. 莎士比亚使其他剧作家相形见绌。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The new building dwarfs all the other buildings in the town. 新大楼使城里所有其他建筑物都显得矮小了。 来自辞典例句