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Twenty Three You Stole My Tools
第二十三課 你偷了我的工具
"Hey, Joey! You're barking up the wrong tree, man, " Bill yeled.
“嘿，喬伊！你錯(cuò)怪了人，伙計(jì)”，比利喊道。
"We back-room boys had nothing to do with stealing those tools of yours."
“我們這些智囊人物可與偷你的工具沒(méi)有關(guān)系。”
"Oh yeah?" Joey replied. "Well, who did then? We've been backwards and for-wards in this placeand there's no way anyone could have gotten into this room!"
“噢，是嗎？”喬伊說(shuō)。“那么是誰(shuí)干的呢？我們一直在這個(gè)地方來(lái)來(lái)去去，別人不可能進(jìn)得了這間屋！”
"Calm down. I know there's always been bad blood betweeen us, but don't bang your head up against a brick wall.
"冷靜點(diǎn)。我知道我們之間一直有仇恨，可是別做明顯不可能的事。
Let's band together and figure this out."
讓我們聯(lián)合起來(lái)想想辦法。”
Finally relaxing, Joey and Billy put a ban on their fighting and searched the room for any clues as to who would have stolen the tools.
終于讓人放松的是，喬伊和比利都提出禁止打架，并在屋里尋找線索看是誰(shuí)偷了那些工具。
"Hey, look at this!" Billy cried from the rear of the room.
“嘿，看這里！” 比利從屋后面喊道。
"These prints look like someone snuck in here in their bare feet, Look!"
“這些痕跡看上去像是有人光著腳溜進(jìn)了這里，看！
"Yeah, you're right. Oh, hey, back up a little bit.
“是的，你說(shuō)得對(duì)。啊，嘿，后退一點(diǎn)兒。
Here's where they come from. "
他們是從這兒進(jìn)來(lái)的。”
And then suddenly the tracks stopped. The ground was bare of any more footprints
接著痕跡突然沒(méi)有了，地面沒(méi)有腳印了。
"Maybe the guy backed out of the room and then left these tracks to confuse us?" Billy said.
“也許是那家伙從屋里退出來(lái)留下這些腳印迷惑我們呢？” 比例說(shuō)。
And sure enough, based on the way the tracks wee laid they found where the person had really entered the room, from a small window whose lock was broken.
毫無(wú)疑問(wèn)，根據(jù)腳印的方向，他們弄清楚了那人的確從那兒進(jìn)屋的，原來(lái)是從一個(gè)壞了鎖的小窗戶進(jìn)來(lái)的。
"Aw, man, sorry about the yelling, Billy, " Joey said .
“呀，伙計(jì)，抱歉剛才跟你嚷嚷了，比利。”喬伊說(shuō)。
"I hadn't bargained on some average thief breaking in here for my tools."
“我沒(méi)有料到會(huì)有小偷闖到這里偷我的工具。”
"No problem, Joey. It's all forgotten now, bag and baggage.
“沒(méi)問(wèn)題，喬伊。一切都過(guò)去了
I guess you'll have to get some new ones."
我想你得弄些新工具。”
