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Much of the detective works are not even done in Oxford.
很多的偵探工作甚至不是在牛津完成的
Fen investigates crimes located in a west-country cathedral town,
芬恩調(diào)查的是英國西南部的大教堂鎮(zhèn)
in a boys school, in a film studio and the Devon countryside.
男生學(xué)校，電影制片廠和德文郡郊的罪案
Usher's endeavors take him to London frequently
亞瑟的工作經(jīng)常將他帶到倫敦
and even to New York, Harvard.
甚至還有紐約，哈佛
Hilary Tamar's detective work shuttles between Oxford and London,
希拉里·塔瑪?shù)膫商焦ぷ魇蛊湓谂＝蚝蛡惗刂g穿梭
but also extends to the Channel Islands in Monaco.
甚至還延伸到摩納哥的海峽群島
So these are dons who double up as detectives.
所以這些人是教員兼職做的偵探
But the detective work is almost entirely
但是這些偵探工作幾乎全都是
independent of the university lives.
獨(dú)立于大學(xué)生活之外的
In this respect, I think they provide a kind of bridge
我認(rèn)為在這個(gè)方面，他們建造了
between the classical amateur detective, golden age amateur
古典的業(yè)余偵探，黃金時(shí)代的業(yè)余偵探
and those of the late 20th and early 21st century,
與那些20世紀(jì)末 21世紀(jì)初的偵探之間的橋梁
because the amateur crime solver including the donnish detective
因?yàn)榘▽W(xué)院派偵探在內(nèi)的業(yè)余偵探
has tended to vanish from British crime fiction
在20世紀(jì)后半葉已經(jīng)快從英國
in the second half of the 20th century,
犯罪小說中消失了
giving way to the realistic recognition that investigation of crime
讓位給現(xiàn)實(shí)社會(huì)中的這樣一種認(rèn)識(shí)
is normally carried out by policemen and policewomen.
通常都是由男警察和女警察進(jìn)行罪案調(diào)查的
So detective novels in England in the second half of the century
所以英國20世紀(jì)后半葉的偵探小說
came increasingly to a revolve around professionals:
漸漸地變得以專業(yè)偵探為主人公
Dalgliesh, Wexford, Laylord, Dauzil, Rebus,
達(dá)格利什，韋克斯福德，雷洛德，道吉爾，瑞伯斯
and of course in Oxford, Morse.
當(dāng)然還有牛津的莫爾斯
Morse is professional, not an amateur,
莫爾斯是個(gè)專業(yè)偵探，不是個(gè)業(yè)余的
a policeman and not a don.
他是個(gè)警察而不是大學(xué)教師
And while a number of these cases are taken to the university
盡管有些案子是在大學(xué)學(xué)院
and the colleges especially Lonsdale College,
特別是朗斯代爾學(xué)院里發(fā)生的
the series as a whole does not depend on
但是整個(gè)系列里的案子并不都是
the cloisters or common room.
在回廊或者公共休息室發(fā)生的
Dexter's Oxford in quite important ways
從很重要的方面來說
straddles town and gown.
德克斯特筆下的牛津罪案橫跨市和大學(xué)
And I need to return to Morse in a moment.
我等會(huì)再回來說莫爾斯
