《神探夏洛克》精讲 380少了件东西

对哦

Right.

-首相  -政府的首脑

- Prime Minister? - Leader of the Government.

对

Right.

-女性  -拜托  你明明知道她是谁

- Female? - For God's sake! You know perfectly¹ well who she is.

你在闹什么呢

Why are you playing for time?

有空缺  你看这空缺  不对劲

It's the gap, look at the gap. It's wrong.

每件东西都摆放齐整  位置妥当

Everything else is perfectly ordered, managed.

简直跟强迫症一样  无意冒犯

The whole thing's verging² on OCD. My respects.

这个小雕像在清洁工每次打扫过之后

This figurine is routinely repositioned after

都要重新归位

the cleaner's been in,

这幅照片也是每天都仔细摆放

this picture is straightened every day,

但却有个这么难看的空缺

yet this ugly gap remains³.

-少了件东西  而且是最近才少的  -对

- Something's missing from here, but only recently. - Yes, a...

-石膏像  -石膏像

- Plaster bust⁴. - ..Plaster bust.

那又怎么了  石膏像打碎了

Oh, for God's sake! It got broken.

跟查理有什么关系

What the hell has this got to do with Charlie?

-地毯  -什么

- Rug! - What?

这东西怎么会碎呢

Well, how could it get broken?

唯一的可能性就是掉在地上

The only place for it to fall is the floor

而这里却有块厚地毯

and there is a big thick rug.

-有关系吗  -韦尔斯伯鲁太太我非常抱歉

- Does it matter? - Mrs Welsborough, my apologies.

-让他问个明白非常重要  -你朋友疯了吧

- It is worth letting him do this. - Is your friend quite mad?

不  他是个混蛋  但的确容易搞错

No, he's an arsehole, but it's an easy mistake.

是这样  我们家被人闯入过

Look, no, we had a break-in,

有个小混蛋把那东西打碎了

some little bastard⁵ smashed it to bits.

我们在门廊上找到了碎片

We found the remains out there in the porch.

1 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。

2 verging   

接近，逼近（verge的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• He vowed understanding, verging on sympathy, for our approach. 他宣称对我们提出的做法很理解，而且近乎同情。
• He's verging on 80 now and needs constant attention. 他已近80岁，需要侍候左右。

3 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

4 bust   

vt.打破；vi.爆裂；n.半身像；胸部

参考例句：

• I dropped my camera on the pavement and bust it. 我把照相机掉在人行道上摔坏了。
• She has worked up a lump of clay into a bust.她把一块黏土精心制作成一个半身像。

5 bastard   

n.坏蛋，混蛋；私生子

参考例句：

• He was never concerned about being born a bastard.他从不介意自己是私生子。
• There was supposed to be no way to get at the bastard.据说没有办法买通那个混蛋。