剑桥大学校园英语情景对话22：寻找福尔摩斯（mp3+中英）

Hi, Nete, what are you reading?

S:嗨，内特，你在读什么呢？

A study in Scarlet. Have you heard of it?

N:《血字的研究 》，你听过这本小说吗？

Oh, yes. The hero of this novel is Sherlock Holmes,And I'm a huge fan of Holmes.

S:当然了。这本小说的主人公是福尔摩斯。我是福尔摩斯的大粉丝。

Holmes is renowned for his astute observation and deductive reasoning. And he uses forensic skills to solve difficult cases.

N:福尔摩斯因他敏锐的观察力和演绎推理能力而享誉于世。他还运用法医技巧来解 决疑案。

Every novel that featured in Holmes is so thrilling that you could hardly bear to put it down.

S:每一本关于福尔摩斯的小说都精彩得让人爱不释手。

I can’t agree with you more. As soon as I buy a novel about Holmes, I'll read it at a stretch.

N:你说的太对了。每买一本福尔摩斯的小说，我都会一口气把它读完。

Of the Sherlock Holmes novels, The Hound of the Baskervilles is probably the best known. It has been  made into a film over twenty times with adaptations in languages as diverse as Indian, German, Russian and Italian.

S:在福尔摩斯的小说系列中，《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》可能是最有名的。它至少20次 被改编为电影，以印度语、德语、俄语和意大利语等多种语言呈现。

N: That one is my favorite, too. And I’m interested not only in Holmes but also Watson.

N:《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》也是我最喜欢的小说。我不仅对福尔摩斯着迷，而且对华 生也很感兴趣。

S: In the novel, Holmes shared the majority of his professional years with his good friend Watson. Watson Lived with Holmes for some time before he got married in 1887，and again after his wife’s death.

S:在小说里，福尔摩斯职业生涯的大部分时光是和 他的好朋友华生一起度过的。华生在1887年结婚 之前，和福尔摩斯住了一段时间，他妻子去世后，又和福尔摩斯住在一起了。

N: Watson has two roles in Holmes’ life. First, he gives practical assistance in the conduct of HolmesJ cases; second, he is Holmes1 chronicler.

N：华生在福尔摩斯的生活中扮演着两个角色。首先，在福尔摩斯破案的过程中，华生结与了他很多帮 助。其次，他还是福尔摩斯破案的记录者。

S: Yes, most of the Holmes stories are frame narratives, written from Watson’s point of view as summaries of the detective’s most interesting cases.

S:是啊，绝大多数福尔摩斯故事都遵循着相同的叙 事模式，都是借华生之口讲述福尔摩斯精彩的断 案故事。

N: Where did Holmes and Watson live?

N.福尔摩斯和华生住在哪里？

S: They lived in London at 221B Baker Street. This real house has been converted into a museum and is the first museum in the world to be dedicated to a fictional character.

S:他们住在伦敦贝克街221B号。这个真实存在的房子已经被改造成一个博物馆。这是世界上第一个为虚构角色而建立的博物馆。

N： This museum maybe added to the impression that Sherlock Holmes really existed.

N:有了这个博物馆，人们更坚信有夏洛克福尔摩斯这个入存在了。

S: Yes, exactly. According to a recent survey, 58% of British people thought that Sherlock Holmes really existed!

S:的确是这样。不久前的一个调查显示，58%的英国人认为真的有福尔摩斯这个人！

N: And given details in two of the adventures, fans thought that Holmes must have been at the University of Cambridge.

N:从关于福尔莫斯的小说中两次探险的细节来看，粉丝们认为福尔摩斯肯定在剑桥 大学念过书。

S: Perhaps Holmes studied biology and anatomy at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, because that offered the greatest number of advantages to Holmes.

S:福尔摩斯可能在剑桥大学的悉尼苏塞克斯学院学过生物学和解剖学，因为这会 绐福尔摩斯带来很大帮助。

N： The fact is Holmes is the creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But Doyle had a love-hate relationship with his most popular creation. He killed Holmes off in a story called “The Final Problem” but the public outcry led him to bring the character back. The fact is Conan Doyle wanted to be respected for his other writing as well.

N：事实上福尔摩斯是阿瑟.柯南道尔爵士虚构出来的角色。但是道尔爵士对这个最 受欢迎的角色爱恨交加。在《最后一案》里，他把福尔摩斯“消灭’掉了，但是 公众的义愤迫使他让福尔摩斯"死而复生"。事实上柯南道尔希望他能够因其他 的作品而受到尊重。

S: By the way, have you watched the movie Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law.

s：对了，你看过由小罗伯特唐尼和裘德洛主演的电影（大侦探福尔摩斯）吗？

N： Well, I'm going to watch it this weekend. I have watched the trailer of Sherlock Holmes and it seems quite nice.

N:我打算固末去看。我已经看了这部电影的预告片了，看起来还不错。

S: In the Guinness book of World Records Sherlock Holmes is listed as the most portrayed movie character with over 70 actors playing the part in over 200 films.
 

S:在吉尼斯世界纪录中，夏洛克福尔摩斯这个电影角色的扮演者是史上最多的， 曾有70多个演员分别在200多部电影中扮演过福尔摩斯。