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Marlowe's devils wore squibs attached to their tails: evil was like Peter Pan—it carried with it the horrifying and horrible gift of eternal youth.
馬洛筆下的魔鬼尾巴上總是綁著爆竹：邪惡就像彼得·潘——它帶著永恒青春所具有的那種天賦，令人恐怖。
Martins said, "Have you ever visited the children's hospital? Have you seen any of your victims?"
馬丁斯說你去過兒童醫院嗎？看過你的無辜受害者嗎？”
Harry took a look at the toy landscape below and came away from the door. "I never feel quite safe in these things," he said. He felt the back of the door with his hand, as though he were afraid that it might fly open and launch him into that iron-ribbed space. "Victims?" he asked. "Don't be melodramatic, Rollo. Look down there," he went on, pointing through the window at the people moving like black flies at the base of the Wheel. "Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving—for ever? If I said you can have twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stops, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money—without hesitation? Or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare? Free of income tax, old man. Free of income tax." He gave his boyish conspiratorial smile. "It's the only way to save nowadays."
哈里看了一眼地面上像玩具一樣小的景物后離開了艙門。“我從不覺得這些東西是安全的，”他說。他用手摸了一下門背，好像生怕門會一下子打開，將他拋進鋼架密布的半空中。“受害者？”他問道。“不要危言聳聽，羅洛，往下看。”他透過窗戶，指著摩天輪下像黑色蒼蠅一樣移動的人們。“如果其中一個黑點停止了活動——永遠停止——你真的會感到一點同情嗎？如果我說每讓一個黑點停止運動，你就可以得到兩萬英鎊，老兄，你真的會毫不猶豫地告訴我把錢收起來嗎？還是說你會算算究竟舍得繞過幾個黑點？免交個人所得稅，老兄，不上所得稅。”他臉上露出孩子似的詭秘的微笑。“這是當今唯一的攢錢方式。”
Couldn't you have stuck to tyres?
“你就不能一直做輪胎生意嗎？”
Like Cooler? No, Fve always been ambitious.
“像庫勒那樣？不，我一直都想干大事。”
You are finished now. The police know everything.
“你現在完蛋了。警察對一切都了如指掌。”
But they can't catch me, Rollo, you'll see. I'll pop up again. You can't keep a good man down.
“但他們抓不到我的，羅洛。你等著看吧。我會重出江湖的，能人是壓制不住的。”
