疑犯追踪第4季 第29期:备份硬盘

 Why would a private military contractor¹  为什么私人雇佣军公司

go after a college student,  会追杀一个大学生

unless it has something to do with a game that she's playing.  除非和她正在玩的游戏有关

I'm sending notes from Claire's backup drive to your phone.  我把克莱尔备份硬盘上的文件发到你手机

The game started with a post on an obscure message board.  这个游戏最初出现在一个匿名论坛上的帖子

"If you seek enlightenment,  想领悟

be the first to walk through the chambers²." 成为第一个到达者

What's the spiral shell?  这螺壳是什么

Chambered nautilus.  鹦鹉螺

Claire realized there was data hidden in the image  克莱尔发现图片中藏有信息

and managed to extract it  就解密了出来

instructions to hack³ an encrypted network  结果是指导攻破某个加密网站

and steal a particular file.  然后盗取上面的一个文件

Whatever's on it is required to win the game.  要有这个文件才能赢下游戏

Setting a pretty high bar.  门槛很高

Indeed, and this isn't the game's first iteration.  确实是  而且这游戏并非首次出现

There have been at least 2 others, 27 days apart,  这个游戏至少出现两次  相隔27天

in cities as far-flung as Tokyo and Paris.  分别在东京和巴黎

You know who's behind it?  知道幕后操纵者是谁吗

Could be one of any number of powerful 应该是某个有权有势

and potentially dangerous entities⁴  极为危险的组织

CIA, rogue⁵ hackers⁶.  中情局  恶意黑客

Whoever's behind it is secretive.  反正是极为隐秘

And no one seems to know what happens 似乎无人知道

when you get to the end. 结局会是什么

Stop. This is it. Wait here.  停  就是这儿  等着

I think I may have found one of Claire's fellow competitors. 我好像是找到了克莱尔的竞争者了

Nice glasses.  眼镜不错

Optical head-mounted display.  头戴式光学显示屏

Among other things, it takes pictures.  还能拍照

Excuse me. I think I'm lost. I wonder if you  打搅一下  我迷路了  你能不能

Stay back!  别过来

Not exactly an altruist⁷, but he gave me one thing   太不乐于助人了  不过倒是提示了我

the spot where i would have to be to find the next puzzle. 要在这个位置才能看到下一个谜题

This must be where you found Claire. 当时你应该就是看到克莱尔在这个位置

You see anything interesting?  有什么发现吗

 

1 contractor   

n.订约人，承包人，收缩肌

参考例句：

• The Tokyo contractor was asked to kick $ 6000 back as commission.那个东京的承包商被要求退还6000美元作为佣金。
• The style of house the contractor builds depends partly on the lay of the land.承包商所建房屋的式样，有几分要看地势而定。

2 chambers   

n.房间( chamber的名词复数 )；（议会的）议院；卧室；会议厅

参考例句：

• The body will be removed into one of the cold storage chambers. 尸体将被移到一个冷冻间里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Mr Chambers's readable book concentrates on the middle passage: the time Ransome spent in Russia. Chambers先生的这本值得一看的书重点在中间：Ransome在俄国的那几年。 来自互联网

3 hack   

n.劈，砍，出租马车；v.劈，砍，干咳

参考例句：

• He made a hack at the log.他朝圆木上砍了一下。
• Early settlers had to hack out a clearing in the forest where they could grow crops.早期移民不得不在森林里劈出空地种庄稼。

4 entities   

实体对像； 实体，独立存在体，实际存在物( entity的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Our newspaper and our printing business form separate corporate entities. 我们的报纸和印刷业形成相对独立的企业实体。
• The North American continent is made up of three great structural entities. 北美大陆是由三个构造单元组成的。

5 rogue   

n.流氓；v.游手好闲

参考例句：

• The little rogue had his grandpa's glasses on.这淘气鬼带上了他祖父的眼镜。
• They defined him as a rogue.他们确定他为骗子。

6 hackers   

n.计算机迷( hacker的名词复数 )；私自存取或篡改电脑资料者，电脑“黑客”

参考例句：

• They think of viruses that infect an organization from the outside.They envision hackers breaking into their information vaults. 他们考虑来自外部的感染公司的病毒，他们设想黑客侵入到信息宝库中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Arranging a meeting with the hackers took weeks againoff-again email exchanges. 通过几星期电子邮件往来安排见面，他们最终同意了。 来自互联网

7 altruist   

n.利他主义者，爱他主义者

参考例句：