中国传媒大学英语电台 Radio CUC English 第445期

 介绍: Sherlock: The Abominable¹ Bride

Clip 1

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S——Sherlock

J——John

H——Mrs Hudson

W——Wife

S: Good Lord! Mrs Hudson, there is a woman in my sitting room! Is it intentional²?

H: She's a client. Said you were out, insisted on waiting.

J: Would you, er, care to sit down?

S: Didn't you ask her what she wanted?

H: You ask her!

S: Why didn't you ask her?

H: How could I, what with me not talking and everything?!

S: For God's sake, give her some lines, she's perfectly³ capable of starving us! Good afternoon. I am Sherlock Holmes, this is my friend and colleague, Dr Watson. You may speak freely in front of him, as he rarely understands a word.

J: Holmes!

S: However, before you do, allow me to make some trifling⁴ observations. You have an impish sense of humour, which currently you are deploying⁵ to ease a degree of personal anguish⁶. You have recently married a man of a seemingly kindly⁷ disposition⁸, who has now abandoned you for an unsavoury companion of dubious⁹ morals. You have come to this agency as a last resort, in the hope that reconciliation¹⁰ may still be possible.

J: Good Lord, Holmes!

S: All of this is, of course, perfectly evident from your perfume.

J: Her perfume?

S: Yes, her perfume, which brings insight to me and disaster to you.

J: How so?

S: Because I recognised it and you did not.

J: Mary!

W: John.

J: Why, in God's name, are you pretending to be a client?

W: Because I could think of no other way to see my husband, husband.

J: It was an affair of international intrigue¹¹.

W: It was a murdered country squire¹².

J: Nevertheless, matters were pressing.

W: I don't mind you going, my darling, I mind you leaving me behind.

J: But what could you do?!

W: Well, what do you do, except wander around taking notes, looking surprised?!

S: Enough! The stage is set, the curtain rises. We are ready to begin.

J: Begin what?

S: Sometimes to solve a case, one must first solve another.

J: Oh, you have a case, then, a new one?

S: An old one, very old. I shall have to go deep.

J: Deep? Into what?

S: Myself.

Clip 2

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1——Waiter

S——Sherlock

2——Waitress

C——Cousin

J——John

W——Wife

1: We've landed, sir. We've landed.

S: No, no, not now, not now! Not now, not now.

2: I trust you had a pleasant flight, sir?

C: Well, a somewhat shorter exile than we'd imagined, brother mine, but probably adequate, given your levels of OCD.

S: I have to go back!

C: What?

S: I was...I was nearly there, I nearly had it!

C: What on earth are you talking about?

J: Go back where? You didn't get very far.

S: Ricoletti and his abominable wife! Don't you understand?!

W: No, of course we don't, you're not making any sense, Sherlock.

S: It was a case, a famous one from 100 years ago. Lodged¹³ in my hard drive, she seemed to be dead, but then she came back.

J: What, like Moriarty?

S: Shot herself in the head, exactly like Moriarty.

W: But you've only just been told. We've only just found out, he's on every TV screen in the country.

S: Yes? So? It's been five minutes since Mycroft called. What progress have you made? What have you been doing?

J: More to the point, what have YOU been doing?

S: I've been in my Mind Palace, of course.

J: Of course.

S: Running an experiment. How would I have solved the crime, if I'd been there in 1895?

C: Sherlock.

S: I had all the details perfect. I was there, all of it, everything. I was immersed.

C: Of course you were.

W: You've been reading John's blog. The story of how you met.

S: It helps me if I see myself through his eyes sometimes. I'm so much cleverer.

C: Do you really think anyone is believing you?

J: No, he can do this, I've seen it. The Mind Palace, it's like a whole world in his head.

S:Yes, and I need to get back there.

C: The Mind Palace is a memory technique, I know what it can do and I know what it most certainly cannot.

S: Maybe there are one or two things that I know that you don’t.

C: Oh, there are. Did you make a list?

S: You've put on weight. That waistcoat is clearly newer than the jacket.

C: Stop this! Just stop it! Did you make a list?!

S: Of what?

C: Everything, Sherlock. Everything you've taken.

J: No, it's not that, he goes into a sort of trance. I've seen him do it.

C: We have an agreement, my brother and I, ever since that day. Wherever I find him, whatever back alley¹⁴ or doss-house. There will always be a list.

1 abominable   

adj.可厌的，令人憎恶的

参考例句：

• Their cruel treatment of prisoners was abominable.他们虐待犯人的做法令人厌恶。
• The sanitary conditions in this restaurant are abominable.这家饭馆的卫生状况糟透了。

2 intentional   

adj.故意的，有意（识）的

参考例句：

• Let me assure you that it was not intentional.我向你保证那不是故意的。
• His insult was intentional.他的侮辱是有意的。

3 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

4 trifling   

adj.微不足道的；没什么价值的

参考例句：

• They quarreled over a trifling matter.他们为这种微不足道的事情争吵。
• So far Europe has no doubt, gained a real conveniency,though surely a very trifling one.直到现在为止,欧洲无疑地已经获得了实在的便利，不过那确是一种微不足道的便利。

5 deploying   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的现在分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Provides support for developing and deploying distributed, component-based applications. 为开发和部署基于组件的分布式应用程序提供支持。
• Advertisement, publishing, repair, and install-on-demand are all available when deploying your application. 在部署应用程序时提供公布、发布、修复和即需即装功能。

6 anguish   

n.(尤指心灵上的)极度痛苦，烦恼

参考例句：

• She cried out for anguish at parting.分手时，她由于痛苦而失声大哭。
• The unspeakable anguish wrung his heart.难言的痛苦折磨着他的心。

7 kindly   

adj.和蔼的，温和的，爽快的；adv.温和地，亲切地

参考例句：

• Her neighbours spoke of her as kindly and hospitable.她的邻居都说她和蔼可亲、热情好客。
• A shadow passed over the kindly face of the old woman.一道阴影掠过老太太慈祥的面孔。

8 disposition   

n.性情，性格；意向，倾向；排列，部署

参考例句：

• He has made a good disposition of his property.他已对财产作了妥善处理。
• He has a cheerful disposition.他性情开朗。

9 dubious   

adj.怀疑的，无把握的；有问题的，靠不住的

参考例句：

• What he said yesterday was dubious.他昨天说的话很含糊。
• He uses some dubious shifts to get money.他用一些可疑的手段去赚钱。

10 reconciliation   

n.和解，和谐，一致

参考例句：

• He was taken up with the reconciliation of husband and wife.他忙于做夫妻间的调解工作。
• Their handshake appeared to be a gesture of reconciliation.他们的握手似乎是和解的表示。

11 intrigue   

vt.激起兴趣，迷住；vi.耍阴谋；n.阴谋，密谋

参考例句：

• Court officials will intrigue against the royal family.法院官员将密谋反对皇室。
• The royal palace was filled with intrigue.皇宫中充满了勾心斗角。

12 squire   

n.护卫, 侍从, 乡绅

参考例句：

• I told him the squire was the most liberal of men.我告诉他乡绅是世界上最宽宏大量的人。
• The squire was hard at work at Bristol.乡绅在布里斯托尔热衷于他的工作。

13 lodged   

v.存放( lodge的过去式和过去分词 )；暂住；埋入；（权利、权威等）归属

参考例句：

• The certificate will have to be lodged at the registry. 证书必须存放在登记处。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Our neighbours lodged a complaint against us with the police. 我们的邻居向警方控告我们。 来自《简明英汉词典》

14 alley   

n.小巷，胡同；小径，小路

参考例句：

• We live in the same alley.我们住在同一条小巷里。
• The blind alley ended in a brick wall.这条死胡同的尽头是砖墙。