《新福尔摩斯》精讲 10

I know who you are, Mr Holmes.

我知道你是谁 福尔摩斯先生

The moment you said your name, I knew.

你一说你的大名我就知道了

Sherlock Holmes!

夏洛克·福尔摩斯

I've been on your website loads of times.

我经常上你的网站

You are brilliant. You are. Proper genius.

你智慧过人 简直就是个天才

"The Science of Deduction¹." Now that is proper thinking.

演绎法 这才是真正的推理

Between you and me, why can't people think?

我们就来说说 人们为什么就不会思考

Doesn't it drive you mad?

你不因此恼怒吗

Why can't people just think?

为什么人们就不会动动脑子呢

Oh, I see, so you're a proper genius, too.

我明白了 这么说你也是个天才咯

Don't look it, do I?

看起来不像吧

Funny little man, drives a cab².

不过是个不起眼的滑稽的哥

But you'll know better in a minute.

不过很快自会见分晓

Chances are, it'll be the last thing you ever know.

这可能是你有生之年所知的最后一件事

Who are you?

你是谁

Nobody.

谁都不是

For now.

目前为止

But I won't die a nobody. Now will I?

但这下我是一举成名了吧

Two pills.

两枚药片

There's a good pill and a bad pill. You take the good pill, you live.

一个有毒 一个没毒 选对了就逃过一劫

Take the bad pill, you die.

选错了就必死无疑

And you know which is which.

你能分辨出来

Course I know.

那是当然

But I don't.

我却不知道

Wouldn't be a game if you knew.

你都知道了还算什么游戏

You're the one who chooses.

就是让你来选

It's not a game. It's chance.

这不是游戏 是运气

I've played five times. I'm alive.

我都玩了5次 还活着

It's not chance, Mr Holmes, it's chess.

福尔摩斯先生 这不是运气 而是博弈

It's a game of chess with one move and one survivor³.

只需一步 决出胜负

And this, this is the move.

而这就是那致命的一步

1 deduction   

n.减除，扣除，减除额；推论，推理，演绎

参考例句：

• No deduction in pay is made for absence due to illness.因病请假不扣工资。
• His deduction led him to the correct conclusion.他的推断使他得出正确的结论。

2 cab   

n.计程车，出租车，出租单马车；vi.乘出租马车

参考例句：

• The cab drove over his legs.马车从他腿上碾过。
• Shall we walk or take a cab?我们步行还是坐出租车？

3 survivor   

n.生存者，残存者，幸存者

参考例句：

• The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
• There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。