中国传媒大学英语电台 Radio CUC English 第445期

 介绍: Sherlock: The Abominable 1 Bride

Clip 1
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S——Sherlock
J——John
H——Mrs Hudson
W——Wife
S: Good Lord! Mrs Hudson, there is a woman in my sitting room! Is it intentional 2?
H: She's a client. Said you were out, insisted on waiting.
J: Would you, er, care to sit down?
S: Didn't you ask her what she wanted?
H: You ask her!
S: Why didn't you ask her?
H: How could I, what with me not talking and everything?!
S: For God's sake, give her some lines, she's perfectly 3 capable of starving us! Good afternoon. I am Sherlock Holmes, this is my friend and colleague, Dr Watson. You may speak freely in front of him, as he rarely understands a word.
J: Holmes!
S: However, before you do, allow me to make some trifling 4 observations. You have an impish sense of humour, which currently you are deploying 5 to ease a degree of personal anguish 6. You have recently married a man of a seemingly kindly 7 disposition 8, who has now abandoned you for an unsavoury companion of dubious 9 morals. You have come to this agency as a last resort, in the hope that reconciliation 10 may still be possible.
J: Good Lord, Holmes!
S: All of this is, of course, perfectly evident from your perfume.
J: Her perfume?
S: Yes, her perfume, which brings insight to me and disaster to you.
J: How so?
S: Because I recognised it and you did not.
J: Mary!
W: John.
J: Why, in God's name, are you pretending to be a client?
W: Because I could think of no other way to see my husband, husband.
J: It was an affair of international intrigue 11.
W: It was a murdered country squire 12.
J: Nevertheless, matters were pressing.
W: I don't mind you going, my darling, I mind you leaving me behind.
J: But what could you do?!
W: Well, what do you do, except wander around taking notes, looking surprised?!
S: Enough! The stage is set, the curtain rises. We are ready to begin.
J: Begin what?
S: Sometimes to solve a case, one must first solve another.
J: Oh, you have a case, then, a new one?
S: An old one, very old. I shall have to go deep.
J: Deep? Into what?
S: Myself.
Clip 2
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1——Waiter
S——Sherlock
2——Waitress
C——Cousin
J——John
W——Wife
1: We've landed, sir. We've landed.
S: No, no, not now, not now! Not now, not now.
2: I trust you had a pleasant flight, sir?
C: Well, a somewhat shorter exile than we'd imagined, brother mine, but probably adequate, given your levels of OCD.
S: I have to go back!
C: What?
S: I was...I was nearly there, I nearly had it!
C: What on earth are you talking about?
J: Go back where? You didn't get very far.
S: Ricoletti and his abominable wife! Don't you understand?!
W: No, of course we don't, you're not making any sense, Sherlock.
S: It was a case, a famous one from 100 years ago. Lodged 13 in my hard drive, she seemed to be dead, but then she came back.
J: What, like Moriarty?
S: Shot herself in the head, exactly like Moriarty.
W: But you've only just been told. We've only just found out, he's on every TV screen in the country.
S: Yes? So? It's been five minutes since Mycroft called. What progress have you made? What have you been doing?
J: More to the point, what have YOU been doing?
S: I've been in my Mind Palace, of course.
J: Of course.
S: Running an experiment. How would I have solved the crime, if I'd been there in 1895?
C: Sherlock.
S: I had all the details perfect. I was there, all of it, everything. I was immersed.
C: Of course you were.
W: You've been reading John's blog. The story of how you met.
S: It helps me if I see myself through his eyes sometimes. I'm so much cleverer.
C: Do you really think anyone is believing you?
J: No, he can do this, I've seen it. The Mind Palace, it's like a whole world in his head.
S:Yes, and I need to get back there.
C: The Mind Palace is a memory technique, I know what it can do and I know what it most certainly cannot.
S: Maybe there are one or two things that I know that you don’t.
C: Oh, there are. Did you make a list?
S: You've put on weight. That waistcoat is clearly newer than the jacket.
C: Stop this! Just stop it! Did you make a list?!
S: Of what?
C: Everything, Sherlock. Everything you've taken.
J: No, it's not that, he goes into a sort of trance. I've seen him do it.
C: We have an agreement, my brother and I, ever since that day. Wherever I find him, whatever back alley 14 or doss-house. There will always be a list.