《新福尔摩斯》精讲 103

The Coventry conundrum¹. What do you think of my solution? The flight of the dead.

考文垂难题 你觉得我的解决方法如何 死者航班

Plane blows up midair, mission accomplished² for the terrorists, hundreds of casualties, but nobody dies.

飞机在半空中爆炸 恐怖分子达到了目的 伤亡数上百 但没人死亡

Neat, don't you think? You've been stumbling around the fringes of this one for ages.

很干净吧 你觉得呢 其实你很早就接触到事情的真相了

Or were you too bored to notice the pattern?

还是说你觉得太无聊 而忽略了其中的规律

They wouldn't let us see Granddad when he was dead.

爷爷去世时他们不让我们去看他

She's not my real aunt—I know human ash.

她不是我姑姑 我分辨得出人的骨灰

We ran a similar project with the Germans a while back, though I believe one of our passengers didn't make the flight.

我们之前和德国人有过类似的合作 而其中一位乘客没有赶上飞机

But that's the deceased for you...late, in every sense of the word.

就是你的那件案子的死者 无论如何 太迟了

How is the plane going to fly? Oh, of course, unmanned aircraft, hardly new.

飞机要怎么飞 当然了 无人驾驶 老把戏了

It doesn't fly. It will never fly. This entire project is cancelled.

它不会起飞 永远不会 整个计划都被取消了

The terrorist cells have been informed that we know about the bomb.

恐怖组织得知了我们知道炸弹的事

We can't fool them now. We've lost everything.

现在骗不了他们了 我们输得一败涂地

One fragment of one email, and months and years of planning—finished.

一封邮件中的一小段话 成年累月的计划 结束了

Your MOD man.

你国防部的手下

That's all it takes.

老鼠屎坏了一锅粥

One lonely, naive³ man, desperate to show off, and a woman clever enough to make him feel special.

一个孤独幼稚的男人 总想显摆自己和一个聪明到让他自以为很特别的女人

You should screen your defence people more carefully.

你们国防部选人时应该更谨慎点

I'm not talking about the MOD man, Sherlock, I'm talking about you!

我没在说那个国防部的人 夏洛克 我说的是你

1 conundrum   

n.谜语；难题

参考例句：

• Let me give you some history about a conundrum.让我给你们一些关于谜题的历史。
• Scientists had focused on two explanations to solve this conundrum.科学家已锁定两种解释来解开这个难题。

2 accomplished   

adj.有才艺的；有造诣的；达到了的

参考例句：

• Thanks to your help,we accomplished the task ahead of schedule.亏得你们帮忙,我们才提前完成了任务。
• Removal of excess heat is accomplished by means of a radiator.通过散热器完成多余热量的排出。

3 naive   

adj.幼稚的，轻信的；天真的

参考例句：

• It's naive of you to believe he'll do what he says.相信他会言行一致，你未免太单纯了。
• Don't be naive.The matter is not so simple.你别傻乎乎的。事情没有那么简单。