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Thank you very much indeed, David.
大衛(wèi)，真的十分感謝您
And thank you, everyone, good morning.
大家上午好，感謝你們的捧場
Well, as David has just said,
剛才大衛(wèi)已經(jīng)提到了
what I want to talk about this morning is British Detective Fiction,
我今天上午要講一下英國的偵探小說
the Murder Mystery, the Who Done It.
謀殺之謎，誰是真兇
I have called my talk Cluedo and Cadavers in order to highlight
我把演講主題稱作，尋兇與死尸，是為了突出
what I see as the two central and contrasting features of the genre.
我心中這種流派的兩個中心和其相對的特征
On the one hand, the Who Done It is a book
一方面，誰是真兇，是本小說
that present you with a challenging puzzle.
給讀者出了一道頗具挑戰(zhàn)性的謎題
It's kind of a fictional game.
是一種虛擬的游戲
In fact, it's very like a literature equivalent of Cluedo
事實上，它極像是把棋盤游戲，妙探尋兇的
the board game that
文學(xué)式表達(dá)
You might have worked out who killed Dr. Black or Mr. Boddy
你也許能推斷出誰殺死了布萊克博士
as it is a bit obviously called in the American version of the game.
或者說美國版游戲中的博迪先生
Was it Professor Plum in the library with the candlestick,
是普拉姆教授在圖書館用燭臺殺死的
or was it Colonel Mustard in the conservatory
還是馬斯塔德上校在溫室
with a chunk of lead piping?
用鉛水管殺死的?
It's something that is nicely unreal.
這些事情很不真實
It's an entertaining brain teaser
它是一種有趣的腦筋急轉(zhuǎn)彎
that tests your power of observation and deduction,
測試你的觀察推理能力
or just you skill or luck at guessing.
或者只是檢驗?zāi)闶欠裆瞄L猜測
On the other hand, the Who Done It isn't just a game.
另一方面，誰是真兇，不只是個游戲
It's a game that involves something
它涉及到的一些事情
that we usually take very seriously indeed,
通常是我們非常重視的方面
Corpses, cadavers, violent deaths.
死尸，暴力，死亡
It's a kind of past time that plays with very gruesome material,
這是在以可怕的元素消遣時間
which makes it a very strange kind of genre.
讓其成為一種奇怪的流派
But the classic who done it which brings these two aspects together
不過經(jīng)典的尋找真兇手法
the Cluedo aspect and the Cadaver aspect is actually proved to be
將推理元素與死尸元素合二為一
one of the most popular and long-end journey of literature genre.
成為最受歡迎并長久不衰的文學(xué)流派
