《新福尔摩斯》精讲 39

（单词翻译）

Check for the dates...

仔细看这些日期

Here, John, "arrived from China four days ago".

约翰 看 这个四天前刚从中国送达

Anonymous¹.

匿名来源

The vendor² doesn't give his name.

卖主不提供姓名

Two undiscovered treasures from the East.

两件从未露面的东方珍宝

One in Lukis' suitcase,

一件藏在路基斯的手提箱里

and one in Van Coon's.

另外一件在范孔的箱子里

Antiquities³... sold at auction⁴.

拍卖成交的古董

Look, here's another one.

这还有一件

Arrived from China a month ago,

一个月前从中国运抵

Chinese ceramic⁵ statue sold for 400,000 pounds.

中国陶瓷雕像 成交价40万英镑

Look, a month before that, Chinese painting, 500,000 pounds.

再一个月之前 中国画 50万英镑成交

All of them from an anonymous source.

全部都是匿名来源

They're stealing them back in China

黑莲会先把文物从中国盗出

and one by one feeding them into Britain.

再一一偷运进英国

Every single auction

每次拍卖会的时间

coincides with Lukis or Van Coon travelling to China.

都和路基斯或范孔的中国之行相吻合

So what if one of them got greedy when they were in China?

要是他们其中一人在中国起了贪念

What if one of them stole something?

要是其中一人把古董私藏腰包

That's why Zhi Zhu's come.

估计这就是蜘蛛要来的原因

Sorry, are we collecting for charity, Sherlock?

打扰下 夏洛克 我们在组织慈善募捐吗

What?

怎么

A young man's outside with crates⁶ of books.

外面有个小伙子搬来几大箱子的书

So the numbers are references.

数字就是线索

To books.

指向书的内容

To specific pages and specific words on those pages.

指向特定页上的某个特定单词

Right, so... 15 and 1, that means?

好吧 那15和1是什么意思

Turn to page 15 and it's the first word you read.

第15页的第一个单词

OK, so what's the message?

那想传达什么信息呢

Depends on the book.

这就取决于是哪本书了

That's the cunning of the book code.

书码的狡猾之处就在于此

It has to be one that they both own.

必须是他俩共有的一本书

OK, fine. This shouldn't take too long, should it?

好吧 反正也花不了多久