第218課 特工人員
Jeremy waited at the terminal, tense and nervous, awaiting orders to terminate a fellow tenant whom he had once known as a temporary acquaintance. He had gone to the temple that morning, tempting God to justify his actions. He had a tendency to be tentative about such things， and as he thought about it, it was tempting to just leave the scene altogether. The Secret Intelligence Bureau would not have hired him had they known about his tender heart. But now that he was in their service, he couldn't escape. Their tentacles stretched far and wide. Though temperate by nature, at times he could be the opposite. He would go through bouts of temporarily cursing this temporal world. This would drive him to drink, an odd habit for a grandson of one of the founders of the Women's Temperance Union. He would take a bottle of tequila back to his termite-infested tenement, head out to the terrace, and drink all night. This was rare, however, as his discipline in such matters was not so tensile.
杰里米在終點(diǎn)站緊張地等候著，等待著暗殺一個(gè)同住房客的命令，他曾經(jīng)和這個(gè)人有過短暫的相識。那天早晨他去過神殿，誘惑上帝替他的行為辯護(hù)。他有種傾向，對這種事總是遲疑不決。當(dāng)他想到這件事，就有種完全逃離現(xiàn)場的誘惑。如果秘密情報(bào)局早知道他心腸軟，就不會雇用他了。但既然他為人家工作，他就不能臨陣脫逃。他們的觸角伸展到遠(yuǎn)近各處。盡管本性溫和，但有時(shí)他也會一反常態(tài)。他會一陣陣地暫時(shí)詛咒這個(gè)世俗的世界。這會促使他借酒澆愁，對于婦女禁酒聯(lián)合會的一位創(chuàng)始人的孫子而言，這是個(gè)奇怪的習(xí)慣。他回到滿是白蟻的租住房屋，會拿出一瓶特奎拉酒，走出房間，在露臺上喝上一整夜。但是，這樣做并不常見，因?yàn)殛P(guān)于這種事情他的紀(jì)律沒有這么大的伸縮性。
As he heard the tempo of the movement of the approaching train, the tension increased. He thought of the tenuous basis upon which the Bureau was ordering the fellow tenant's assassination, and of the dry terminology they used to describe the act of murder. The train approached the terminus. The passengers began to exit. Jeremy spotted his target. In a flash, he surreptitiously performed the deed. That night, he drank.
當(dāng)他聽到漸漸臨近的列車的運(yùn)動(dòng)節(jié)奏，心情越加緊張。他想到，秘密情報(bào)局發(fā)出的暗殺這位同住房客的命令建立在脆弱的基礎(chǔ)之上，他想到他們用干巴巴冷冰冰的措辭描述這次暗殺行為。列車臨近終點(diǎn)站。乘客們開始走出。杰里米發(fā)現(xiàn)目標(biāo)。一瞬間，他神不知鬼不覺地完成了暗殺。那天晚上，他喝了酒。
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