Casino Royale《皇家赌场》（精讲之三）

4. High stakes

Stake 指的是"赌博中的赌金"，high stakes 指的是"高额赌金"。

此外，stake 还可以做动词，表示"赌，下注"，例如：I'd stake my all on it.

5. Clean kill

A clean kill is a killing without lots of attention being attracted, something that is quiet and doesn't attract attention to the killer.

6. Play the market

"以赚钱为目的的有价证券交易"，例如：He is always playing the market with only mixed results.

7. In the service

指的是"服役"，Bond 是在MI6, British intelligence工作的。

文化面面观

James Bond 的间谍生涯

Fleming's commissioned impression of 007 used as an example to aid theDaily Expresscomic strip artists.It is never stated when James Bond became a 00 agent. According to Fleming, after joining the RNVR, Bond is mentioned as travelling to America, Hong Kong, and Jamaica. It is believed that it is during this time that Bond perhaps joined another organisation such as the SOE, the 00 Section of the British Secret Service, or perhaps as a commando in Fleming's own "Red Indians" 30th Assault Unit (30 AU). One supporting reason is that Fleming describes Bond in the Ardennes firing a bazooka in 1944. 30AU were the only British unit attached in small groups to US units all over Europe. In Bond's obituary fromYou Only Live Twice, his commanding officer, M, alludes to Bond's rank as being cover:

"To serve the confidential nature of his duties, he was accorded the rank of lieutenant in the Special Branch of the R.N.V.R., and it is a measure of the satisfaction his services gave to his superiors that he ended the war with the rank of Commander." -You Only Live Twice, chapter 21: "Obit"

Bond earns his stripes in the 00 Section by completing two tasks, which Fleming outlines inCasino Royale. The first is the assassination of a Japanese cipher expert on the 36th floor of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Centre in New York City. The second was the assassination of a Norwegian who became a double agent and betrayed two British agents. Bond travels to Stockholm where he kills the man in his sleep with a knife.

According to Bond, obtaining a 00 number is not hard so long as you're prepared to kill, which John Pearson suggests Bond first did as a teenager. Throughout Fleming's novels, further continuation novels, and even the films, Bond's attitude toward his job is similar; he dislikes taking life - resorting (typically in the films) to flippant jokes and off-hand remarks as after-the-fact relief, often misinterpreted as cold-bloodedness.

"It was part of his profession to kill people. He had never liked doing it and when he had to kill he did it as well as he knew how and forgot about it. As a secret agent who held the rare Double-O prefix - the licence to kill in the Secret Service - it was his duty to be as cool about death as a surgeon. If it happened, it happened. Regret was uNPRofessional - worse, it was a death-watch beetle in the soul." -Goldfinger, chapter 1: "Reflections in a Double Bourbon"

InGoldfingerBond is haunted by memories of a small-time Mexican gunman he had killed with his bare hands days earlier. The cinematic Bond did not begin to show unease about killing until Brosnan's tenure; it is suggested inGoldenEyethat he is troubled by the brutality of his job, while inThe World Is Not Enough, he admits that cold-blooded killing is a filthy business. Nonetheless, Bond does kill when needed, and on filmcommits acts that might be considered murder in other circumstances (killing the unarmed Elektra King inThe World Is Not Enough) or political assassination (killing Mr. Big, who is the leader of a small fictional nation in Live and Let Die). The literary James Bond was reserved in his licensed killing, sometimes disobeying his orders to kill if the mission could be accomplished by other means. Such is the case in "The Living Daylights" where Bond makes a last second decision to disobey his orders and not kill an assassin. Instead Bond intentionally shoots the assassin's gun and still manages to accomplish the mission. He later feels so strongly about his decision that he actually expresses the hope that M will fire him for it. There are Fleming works in which Bond does not kill anyone. Bond also feels an intense hatred towards those who kill helpless non-combatants (such as Oddjob, Max Zorin and Franz Sanchez), in particular if the victim is a woman. He has been known to forsake even his vows to his country to avenge the deaths of innocent victims, as he did for Felix Leiter and his murdered wife in the film Licence to Kill.

In both the literary and cinematic adaptations of the character, Bond has a cavalier attitude toward his own death; he accepts that he will most likely die if captured, and expects MI-6 to disavow his existence in such a situation. He withstands brutal torture in more than one adventure (most notably Casino Royale, The World is Not Enough, and Die Another Day) without divulging the information his persecutors seek.

The cinematic James Bond (introduced in 1962) already had a history with the Secret Service. InDr. No, when reluctantly re-equipped with a 7.65 mm Walther PPK pistol replacing his Beretta automatic pistol, agent 007 protests, telling M that he had used the weapon for 10 years, suggesting he has been a secret agent for at least that long. In the novels precedingDr. No, Bond used a .25 Beretta automatic with a light chamois leather holster, however, inFrom Russia with Love, the gun snagged in Bond's jacket when drawn and because of this incident M and Major Boothroyd forced Bond to switch to the Walther PPK and a Berns-martin triple-draw holster made of stiff saddle leather. Bond continues to use this handgun up until John Gardner's Licence Renewed where he uses a number of different weapons until settling on the ASP 9mm in later books. According to Gardner in the novelisation for Licence to Kill, the Walther PPK is not Bond's favourite weapon. With Raymond Benson, Bond began using the PPK again until being updated in both the film and novelisation Tomorrow Never Dies with the Walther P99. InJames Bond: The Secret World of 007, it is revealed that Bond has a practical knowledge of judo and other martial arts.

考考你

用今日所学将下面的句子译成英语。

1. Tom和Jean 交往已经两年了。

2. 去年石油供给充足，价格降到最低点。

Casino Royale《皇家赌场》（精讲之二）考考你 参考答案

Valenka: No wonder he was in such a foul mood. My mistake.
怪不得他脾气这么坏。我的错。

Bond: Can I give you a lift home?
我能送你回去吗？

Valenka: That would really send him over the edge. I am afraid that I am not that cruel.
那会让他疯了的。恐怕我没那么残忍。

Bond: Perhaps you just have to practice.
也许你该试一下。