《新福尔摩斯》精讲 143

Thanks, Bill.

谢谢,比尔,

So they didn't have it put down then, the dog?

这么说他们没杀死那条狗,

Obviously.I suppose they just couldn't bring themselves to do it.

显然.估计他们只是下不了手,

I see. - No, you don't.

懂了, - 不,你不懂,

No, I don't. Sentiment? - Sentiment.

-好吧,我不懂,这算多愁善感吗,-是的,

Listen, what happened to me in the lab?

那个,我在实验室里是怎么回事,

Do you want some sauce with that?

你要加点沙司吗,

I hadn't been to the Hollow.How come I heard those things there?

我没去过山谷, 我怎么会听到那种声音,

Fear and stimulus¹, you said?

你说的恐惧和刺激,

You must have been dosed with it elsewhere. In the lab, maybe?

你肯定在别处被下药了,也许在实验室里,

You saw those pipes, pretty ancient, leaky as a sieve².

你看到那些管子了,年代久远,可能泄露了,

And they were carrying the gas,

而那里面是有气体的,

so... Ketchup³ was it, or brown? - Hang on.

那,来点番茄酱吗,-慢着, -

You thought it was in the sugar.You were convinced it was in the sugar.

你以为是在糖里, 你当时确定是在糖里,

I'd better get going, there's a train leaving in half an hour, so if you want...

我最好快走了,火车还有一个半小时就开了, 所以如果你想...,

God! It was you.You locked me in that bloody⁴ lab.

老天,是你, 你把我关在那该死的实验室里,

I had to, it was an experiment. - An experiment?!

我不得不这么做,那是个试验,- 试验,

I was terrified, Sherlock, I was scared to death!

我吓坏了,夏洛克,快吓死了,

I thought the drug was in the sugar, so I put some in your coffee.

我以为毒药在糖里,所以在你咖啡里放了糖,

Then I arranged everything with Major Barrymore.

接着我找巴里莫尔少校安排了一切,

Totally scientific, laboratory conditions, literally⁵.

完全科学的实验控制环境,真心的,

All right, keep talking, I'll find you.Keep talking.

好吧,接着说,我这就来找你, 接着说,

I can't, it'll hear me. - Tell me what you're seeing.

不行,它会听到我, - 说你看到什么了,

I don't know, but I can hear it now.

我不知道,但我能听见它的声音,

I knew what effect it had had on a superior mind,

我知道毒药对天才大脑的作用,

so I needed to try it on an average one.You know what I mean.

所以我得在常人的大脑上试试, 你知道我是什么意思,

But it wasn't in the sugar.

但药不在糖里,

No, well, i wasn't to know you'd already been exposed to the gas.

我不知道你已经接触过气体了,

So you got it wrong. - No.

所以你搞错了,-没有,

You were wrong. It wasn't in the sugar, you got it wrong. - A bit.

你就是错了,不在糖里,你弄错了,-错了一点,

It won't happen again.

不会再错了,

Any long-term effects?

有长期副作用吗,

None at all. You'll be fine once you've excreted it. We all will.

不会,你排泄掉了就没事了,我们都会这样,

I think I might have taken care of that already.

那我想我已经搞定这个问题了,

Where are you going? - I won't be a minute.

你去哪,-马上回来,

Got to see a man about a dog.

去找个男人聊聊一条狗,

1 stimulus   

n.刺激，刺激物，促进因素，引起兴奋的事物

参考例句：

• Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
• Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。

2 sieve   

n.筛，滤器，漏勺

参考例句：

• We often shake flour through a sieve.我们经常用筛子筛面粉。
• Finally,it is like drawing water with a sieve.到头来，竹篮打水一场空。

3 ketchup   

n.蕃茄酱，蕃茄沙司

参考例句：

• There's a spot of ketchup on the tablecloth.桌布上有一点番茄酱的渍斑。
• Could I have some ketchup and napkins,please?请给我一些番茄酱和纸手巾？

4 bloody   

adj.非常的的；流血的；残忍的；adv.很；vt.血染

参考例句：

• He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
• He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。

5 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。