26、铝手杖 9.2 T ...
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02 September
The Aluminium Crutch
9月2日
铝手杖
This one you'll have read about in the papers. The murder of actor Matthew Michael live on stage. I wasn't actually there as I was on a date (went well, thanks for asking) but Sherlock was and he left a number of messages on my voicemail, telling me what happened. A couple of people have asked me what he's really like so I've transcribed them.
你们会在报纸上读到这件案子的。演员马修·迈克尔被当场谋杀。我当时并不在场，因为我在约会（去约会，感谢询问）（这个括号是啥意思？）。但夏洛克在，他给我留了几条语音邮件，告诉我发生了什么事。已经有一堆人问我他是怎么说的了，因此，我转述了他的话。
"John, I've just been to see Terror By Night at some terrible little theatre on the Strand. The play itself was mediocre but there was a murder! Live on stage! I haven't got time to tell the police what happened so when you've finished having dinner or whatever it is you're doing with... Sarah I need you to take this message to ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓. Don't worry, it's all quite simple.
“约翰，我刚在河滨路几个糟糕的小剧场看了《恐怖之夜》。演出本身平凡无奇，但发生了一起谋杀！舞台上的谋杀！我没时间告诉警察发生了什么事，因此当你跟……莎拉？在你们结束晚餐或者别的随便什么之后，我需要你把这段信息带到********。别紧张，很简单的。
Detective Sidney Paget, played by the actor Matthew Michael, summoned the other characters to the drawing room so he could reveal whodunnit. As I'd worked out from Scene One, Lady Margaret Chaplette, had been killed by her son Albert, played by the actor William Howells. William, playing Albert, then had to, in a fit of rage, hit Sidney, played by Matthew, with his aluminium crutch. The aluminium crutch was meant to be made of rubber so that Matthew wouldn't be injured but during the interval, someone had replaced the rubber aluminium crutch with a real aluminium crutch. William playing Albert struck Matthew playing Sidney across the head with the real aluminium crutch and killed him.
由马修·迈克尔扮演的侦探西德尼·帕杰特，把其他角色召集到画室，以便开始他的推理秀。正如我在第一幕时就解出来的那样，玛格丽特·恰普利特夫人，是被她的儿子阿尔伯特（由威廉·郝威斯出演）杀的。扮演阿尔伯特的威廉之后要在盛怒之下，用他的铝手杖打马修扮演的西德尼。铝手杖本应是用橡胶做的，这样马修就不会受伤。然而在幕间休息时，有人把橡胶制的铝手杖换成了真正的铝制手杖。威廉（出演阿尔伯特）用真正的铝手杖打了马修（出演西德尼）的头，杀了他。
Now, the only person who could have replaced the rubber aluminium crutch with the real aluminium crutch was someone who'd had access to William's dressing room during the interval. William revealed who had been in there during the interval - the director Deborah Challis, Matthew Michael who played Detective Sidney Paget, Sarah Groenewegen who played Sissy Hastings, Jonathan Morris who played Cedric Hastings and Karen Baldwin who played the maid, Jade. As could be seen in his performance, William clearly liked a drink. At one point, during a tennis court scene that I actually thought would never end, he referred to Sarah instead of Sissy, the character she played and there were bruises on Matthew's arms where, as Sidney, he'd been struck by the character Albert Chaplette in earlier performances, but where the actor William had missed the padding stitched into the coat. I hope you're getting all this down So the killer could have been Deborah Challis, the director or one of those four actors, five including William himself. It had to be someone who could smuggle a real crutch in and replace it without William noticing although, obviously, the bottle of gin he was knocking back would have helped.
现在，唯一一个可能把橡胶铝手杖换成铝制手杖的，就是在幕间进过威廉化妆间的某人。威廉指出幕间时进去过的都有谁——黛博拉·查理斯（导演）、马修·迈克尔（出演侦探西德尼·帕杰特）、莎拉·格罗奈维根（出演西茜·黑斯廷斯）、约奈森·莫里斯（出演塞德里克·黑斯廷斯）以及凯兰·博尔德文（出演女仆洁德）。正如在表演中所能看到的那样，威廉很是喜欢喝点小酒。有一幕在网球场的场景（我还以为那一幕永远不会结束），他叫的是莎拉而不是人物的名字西茜。另外马修的胳膊上有淤青，那应该是在前几场演出里扮演西德尼时被人物阿尔伯特·恰普利特打中的地方，演员威廉没打在戏服里缝好的垫料上。我希望你已经把这些记下了？因此凶手可能是导演黛博拉·查理斯或者那四个演员之中的一个——应该是五个，包括威廉自己在内。一定是某人偷偷带进了真正的铝手杖，在威廉没注意的时候换了它。显然，威廉喝光的那瓶杜松子酒帮了点忙。
Deborah Challis, the director, was wearing tight jeans and a top that was far too pink and far too small so she wouldn't have been able to smuggle in anything larger than a peanut. Which would have been fine if she wanted to kill someone with a nut allergy but she didn't. After some gentle questioning from me, she broke down and admitted that she was in love with William but that he wasn't interested. At last, an explanation for why the old drunk had been cast in the play!
黛博拉·查理斯，导演，穿着紧身牛仔裤以及太小也太粉红的上衣，因此她不可能将任何比花生米大的东西偷带进来。如果她想要杀死某个花生过敏的人那当然没问题，但她没有。我亲切地问了几个问题后，她崩溃了（我黑线了，能将人家弄崩溃，您那还能算神马亲切……）。她承认她暗恋威廉，但他不屑一顾。最后，她解释了为什么那个老酒鬼会出现在演员名单里！
Sarah Groenwegen who played Sissy Hastings was clearly having an affair with William (in real life, I mean, not in the play) so had he broke things off with her Was she pregnant and he didn't want to know And if so, was she trying to get revenge by getting William arrested for the murder of Matthew It seemed... improbable but not impossible.
莎拉·格罗奈维根（出演西茜·黑斯廷斯）显然跟威廉有一腿（我是说在现实生活里，不是戏里），那他跟她分手了吗？是不是她怀孕了而他却不想知道这消息？如果是，那她是否会试图通过陷害威廉谋杀马修、让他被逮捕来复仇？看起来……不太可能，但并非不可能。
Jonathan who played Cedric admitted that he didn't like William and that they'd had a fight during the interval. It turned out that Jonathan was in love with Sarah (who played his sister Sissy) and he hadn't liked the way William treated her. But again, why go to the trouble of having him arrested Why not just kill William himself
约奈森（出演塞德里克）承认他不喜欢威廉，而且幕间的时候他俩曾打过一架。原来约奈森爱上了莎拉（出演他姐姐西茜），而他看不惯威廉那样对待她。但再次，为什么要这么麻烦让他被逮捕？为什么不直接杀了威廉本人？
（总感觉这两段更像是走犯罪心理分析路线的侦探……是因为我在看《Lady最后的犯罪心理分析官》的原因么？所以比较容易往这方面想？）
Karen who played the maid Jade admitted that she'd been having an affair with the victim Matthew who played the detective Sidney but there was no way she could have hidden a crutch in her maid's costume.
凯兰（出演女仆洁德）承认她跟死者马修（出演侦探西德尼）是情人，但她不可能把手杖藏在女仆装里。
So we had two suspects, Deborah the director and Karen who played Jade, who couldn't have smuggled the crutch in. Two suspects, Sarah who played Sissy and Jonathan who played Cedric, who could have smuggled the crutch in but who didn't appear to have a motive. And then William and Matthew themselves. If William had wanted to kill Matthew then there were easier ways to have gone about it. Which leaves the victim Matthew himself.
因此有两个嫌疑人——黛博拉（导演）和凯兰（洁德），不可能将手杖夹带进场；两个嫌疑人——莎拉（西茜）和约奈森（塞德里克），可以夹带手杖进场，但没有明显动机。最后是威廉和马修本人。如果威廉想谋杀马修，那还有更简单的方法。那剩下就只有马修本人了。
As Sidney, Matthew wore a long overcoat (not dissimilar to mine) so he could have done it but there are easier ways of committing suicide - even if you do want to do so dramatically live on stage. The thing is aluminium is actually quite light. There's no guarantee that a strike from an aluminium crutch would actually kill someone. But think about it, John. The bruises on Matthew's arm. William's unprofessional behaviour, the drinking, the affairs. Matthew had already complained to Deborah, the director, about William, but, because she was in love with William, she hadn't done anything about it. And that was it.
由于出演的是西德尼，马修穿的是长袍（跟我的没什么不同）（吐槽一句这个是侦探的职业装么？），因此他能将手杖带进来，但想自杀的话还有更简单的方法——就算他是想戏剧性地死在舞台上也一样。手杖是铝制的，相当轻便。没有人能担保被铝手杖打一下就一定会丧命。但想想，约翰。马修手臂上的淤青。威廉不专业的行为。酗酒。偷情。马修已经跟导演黛博拉抱怨过了威廉的事，但因为喜欢威廉，她没有采取任何行动。就是这样。
Matthew had decided to get William sacked himself. He'd gone into William's dressing room with the real aluminium crutch hidden under his overcoat. The drunk William, busy either fooling around with Sarah or fighting with Jonathan, wouldn't have noticed Matthew swapping the crutch. Matthew's plan was for William, as usual, to hit him with the crutch, not knowing that the rubber aluminium crutch was now a real aluminium crutch. He presumably hoped it would break his arm or cause enough damage that he could sue the theatre or Deborah and ensure that William was sacked. But William, perhaps because of the fight with Jonathan, was even more drunk than usual and swung the crutch too high, striking Matthew across the head and accidentally killing him.
马修决定让威廉自己钻进套子里。他把真正的铝手杖藏在外套下，进了威廉的化妆间。酒鬼威廉，忙着跟莎拉鬼混或者跟约奈森打架，不会注意到马修换了他的手杖。马修的计划是，威廉不知道橡胶铝手杖已经被换成了真正的铝制手杖，照常用那手杖打他。他大概希望手杖会打断他的手或者造成足够严重的伤害，让他能对剧场或黛博拉提起诉讼，并确保威廉被解雇。但威廉，大概是因为跟约奈森打了一架的缘故，比平常喝了更多的酒，把手杖挥得比平时更高，打在了马修的头上，意外地杀了他。
So, just to make sure you've got it: The murder victim Sidney Paget (who played the detective Matthew Michael) was also the killer as he himself swapped the fake murder weapon, the rubber aluminium crutch, for the real murder weapon, a real aluminium crutch, in an attempt to get William Howells (who played the killer Albert Chaplette) fired. The plan itself backfired and he caused his own death."
好了，只要确定你弄明白这个就行：谋杀案受害者西德尼·帕杰特（扮演侦探马修·迈克尔）同时也是凶手，因为是他自己把假凶器——橡胶铝手杖，换成了真凶器——铝制手杖，意图使威廉·郝威斯（出演凶手阿尔伯特·恰普利特）被开除。计划反噬，他杀了自己。”
（呃，西德尼和马修名字的顺序错了吧？我是照着英文译的哦……是阿福错了还是）
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Bravo!
Mike Stamford 03 September 09:24
太精彩了！
迈克·斯坦福 9月3日 09:24
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I think my brain just exploded
Bill Murray 03 September 10:12
我觉得我脑子要爆炸了。
比尔·默里 9月3日 10:12
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GENIUS!!!!
Jacob Sowersby 03 September 10:14
天才！！！！
雅各布·索维斯拜 9月3日 10:14
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Freak
Sally Donovan 03 September 11:43
怪胎
莎莉·多诺凡 9月3日 11:43
（啊呀多诺凡小姐好久不见~）
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