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Let me begin then with that outlined history.
讓我先來大致說說那段歷史
There were a couple of predecessors in the 1920s and early 30s,
在20世紀(jì)20年代和30年代初期，有一些前輩們
but works have no great distinction.
但是他們的作品并不出眾
The history of Oxford-based detective stories really begins
以牛津為背景的偵探故事的歷史真正始于
effectively in the mid-1930s, 3 books in particular,
20世紀(jì)30年代中期，特別是3本書
they have been considered to have lodged the sequence.
人們認為是它們拉開了一系列偵探故事的序幕
In 1933, J.C.Masterman published An Oxford Tragedy,
在1933年，麥斯特曼出版了，牛津悲劇
still regarded by eminent critic T.P. Binnian as
仍被著名評論家T.P.畢尼恩視為
"Perhaps the best of many detective stories
"也許是以牛津為背景的許多偵探故事里
set in Oxford".
最好的一部作品"
The story An Oxford Tragedy has narrated by the senior tutor
牛津悲劇，這部小說講述的是
at St. Thomas College, Watson, to the novel's homes,
一個關(guān)于維也納訪問律師恩斯特·布倫德爾的事
the visiting Viennese academic lawyer
敘述者是沃森，他是小說故事發(fā)生地
named Ernst Brendel.
圣托馬斯大學(xué)的高級導(dǎo)師
When an unpopular tutor is found shot in the Dean's rooms,
一個不受歡迎的導(dǎo)師被槍殺在院長房間里
Brendel sets out to solve the crime
布倫德爾開始調(diào)查這個案子
which he satisfyingly does.
并令人滿意地偵破了它
Two years later in 1935,
兩年后 1935年
Dorothy Sayers' Gaudy Night appeared.
多蘿西·塞耶斯的，俗麗之夜，問世
It brings Harriet Vane
它將哈略特·凡
an Oxford graduate like Sayers
一個和塞耶斯一樣的牛津畢業(yè)生
back to her undergraduate college,
帶回了她本科生時所在的學(xué)院
where she encounters
在那里她遭遇到了
an outbreak of anonymous letters, vandalism, threats,
明顯來自學(xué)院內(nèi)部的人的
apparently from someone within the college.
匿名信，破壞和威脅
The community of students, dons, and servants
學(xué)生，大學(xué)教師，和仆人團體
is almost torn apart by suspicions and fear.
幾乎被猜疑和恐懼弄得四分五裂
The perpetrator is finally unmasked by Lord Peter Wimsey,
最終罪犯的真面目被彼得·溫姆西勛爵揭開
Sayers' somewhat
他是塞耶斯筆下
insufferably superior sleuth.
一個讓人有幾分難以忍受的高高在上的偵探
Gaudy Night was the 11th
俗麗之夜，是以溫姆西為主角的
of 12 novels featuring Wimsey.
12本小說中的第11本
It is also not only a detective story,
這不僅是一個偵探故事
it is a complex exploration of the nature of personal responsibility
它還是對個人責(zé)任感與選擇的本質(zhì)
and choice, the changing roles of women after the great war,
大戰(zhàn)后婦女角色的改變的復(fù)雜的探索
and the relationship between genre fiction and high art.
以及類型小說與純藝術(shù)這兩者之間的關(guān)系
It's a very significant novel in those terms, too.
這也是在這兩種意義上非常重要的一本小說
The third book in my founding trio appeared in 1936.
我找到的三部曲的第三本問世于1936年
It was Death at the President's Lodging by Michael Innes.
它是邁克爾·英尼斯的，校長宿舍謀殺案
It's an ingeniously plotted tale
這個故事的情節(jié)非常有獨創(chuàng)性
and the first case to be solved by John Appleby.
第一個案子是被約翰·艾伯比偵破的
Then still Inspector Appleby,
然后還是艾伯比探長
although after a long series of novels,
盡管是在很長的一系列小說之后
he becomes chief inspector and then Commissioner
他成了總警長，然后成了
of the Metropolitan Police, acquiring a son, a wife
警察局局長并娶妻生子
and a Knighthood along the way.
在這過程中還成了騎士
