福尔摩斯：基本演绎法 第一季第6集Flight Risk（21）

（单词翻译）

 

In the fuel tank.

在油箱里

Sand dumped into the fuel tank

沙子被倒入油箱后

would initially¹ settle on the bottom.

起初会沉在箱底

Plane would take off, no difficulty.

飞机会照常起飞

But... during the course of the flight,

但是，在飞行过程中

more and more granules will get sucked into the filter,越来越多的小沙粒被卷入燃油滤清器clogging it and starving the engine

堵塞了它，导致了燃油发动机

of fuel mid-flight, regardless of the extra weight在飞行过程中无法启动，坠机不是因为of Hank Gerrard's body.

汉克·杰拉德使飞机超重

You think the flight was bound to crash.

你认为是有人蓄意造成坠机

Actually, Ms. Molinari,

没错，莫里那瑞女士

as of this moment, I know it was bound to crash.

直到这一刻， 我确信那不是意外

Same unfrosted grains

和我在事故现场

I saw at the crash site, looks and feels

发现的沙粒一样，未被风化

like beach sand, but it's not.

看起来像海滩沙，然而不是

These grains are comprised mostly of silica,

这些沙粒主要由硅组成

commercial sand.

是商业用沙

Somebody sabotaged² the flight.

有人恶意破坏了飞机

Probably the same person who killed Hank Gerrard.

很可能就是杀汉克·杰拉德的人

What if Hank walked in on the saboteur?

汉克会不会接近过破坏者

Easier to bash his skull³ in

这样更容易袭击他的头部

then explain why you're funneling⁴ sand

并解释为什么他把沙子用漏斗

into a fuel tank, no?

倒进燃烧箱，不是吗

Then it's just a case of concealing⁵ the body.

关键就在于怎么隐藏身体

The cargo⁶ hold makes sense

既然飞机注定会坠毁

in that the flight was doomed⁷ to crash anyway.

那货舱就能用来藏人

As long as it crashed over water.

只要飞机在海面坠毁

Which it would do on its way to Martha's Vineyard.

就会靠近玛莎葡萄岛

Traces of sand would be washed away.

沙子的痕迹就会被冲走

Instead, it crashed prematurely⁸ due to the weight imbalance.

可最终，飞机因重力不均而过早地坠毁

So, we know why Hank Gerrard's body

这样一来，我们就知道为什么

was stuffed into the cargo hold.

汉克·杰拉德被塞进了货舱

The questions are: who put it there,

问题是，谁干的

and why did they want to bring down that plane?

他为什么要让飞机坠毁