9号秘事

斯芬克斯之谜
怎么回事 你是谁
What's going on? Who are you?
我的妈呀 我快被你吓死了
Oh, for God's sake, you scared the living crap out of me then!
天啊
Jesus!
你没事吧
Are you all right?
我得坐下缓一缓
Oh, I just need to sit down for a second.
妈的
shit!
抱歉 我不是故意想吓你的
Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you.
没关系 你有毛巾吗
That's all right. Oh, you haven't got a towel, have you?
有
Yes.
谢谢
Thanks.
今晚下大雨 外面比修女自♥慰♥用的黄瓜还湿
It's wetter than a nun's cucumber out there tonight.
谢谢
Thanks.
你... 你能不能先把枪放下
Can you, um...can you put the gun down, please?
好的 枪没上膛
Of course. It's not loaded,
俄♥国♥作家契科夫
创作的四幕喜剧
只是学生演话剧《海鸥》用的道具而已
it was just a prop from a student production of The Seagull.
我能问问你来我家干什么吗
Can I ask what you're doing in my rooms?
你应该不是为了一条毛巾破门而入吧
I presume you didn't break in for a towel.
我没有破门而入 严格来说没有
Well, I-I didn't break in. Well, not technically.
我男朋友告诉我 所有教授
My boyfriend told me all professors
都会在房♥门[口♥交♥洞]上面放一把钥匙
keep a key above their glory hole,
所以我就自己开门进来了
so I sort of just let myself in.
那样做太不应该了 很对不起
It was a stupid thing to do. I'm...I'm so sorry.
你是哪位
And you are?
妮娜 妮娜·努娜
Nina. Nina...Noonah.
妮娜·努娜
Nina Noonah.
显然这不是我真的名字
Well, not really, obviously,
但我不想惹上麻烦
but I don't want to get in any trouble.
你不会打电♥话♥报♥警♥吧
You're...you're not going to call the police, are you?
没事的 努娜小姐 我是刀子嘴豆腐心
It's all right, Miss Noonah, my bark is worse than my bite.
跟我说说你为什么来这里
Just tell me why you're here.
是因为我男朋友萨蒙
It's just Simon, my boyfriend,
他是国王学院的学生 他很聪明
he studies at King's College and he's properly clever.
他骑自行车 戴围巾 打扮得跟哈利波特一样
He's got a bike and scarf and all the Harry Potter shit.
而且他沉迷于玩字谜游戏
And he's sort of obsessed with doing the crossword.
我不是指封面印有女主播照片的
And I don't mean the quick ones you get
《闲谈》杂♥志♥里那种简单题目
with a picture of Vanessa Feltz in the middle in Chat magazine,
我是指很隐秘的那种
I mean, the cryptic.
我明白了
I see.
我有时也试着帮他解谜
And I try to help him sometimes
可是我一看那些线索 就觉得自己好蠢
and I-I look at the clues and I feel like such a div
因为我完全看不懂
because I can't make head nor tail of them.
索性用中文写得了
They may as well be written in Chinese!
你是想说用普通话吧 你也是学生吗
In Mandarin, yes. And you're a student also?
才不是呢 我...我在面包店打工
Oh, God, no! No. I, er...I work at Greggs.
我就是人们说的 智商不高情商高的人
I'm what you call, um...emotionally intelligent.
遗憾的是 情商高对解谜没帮助
Well, sadly, that won't help you with the cryptic.
抱歉
Sorry.
是啊 可不是嘛
Yeah, tell me about it.
反正萨蒙觉得你就是斯芬克斯什么的
Anyway, Simon reckons you're the Sphinx, or something.
你是不是在学生的作业里出字谜
Do you write the crossword in the student paper?
没错
That's correct.
出字谜的人传统上都会用编造的假名
Crossword-setters traditionally use a pseudonym, a made-up name.
-像妮娜·努娜一样吗 -对
- What, like Nina Noonah? - Yes.
而我就叫做斯芬克斯
And I am know as the Sphinx.
这并不是秘密 尤其在学校里
It's not exactly a secret, especially here on campus.
总之 我想着
Anyway, I just thought that
如果我能看到这一周字谜的答案
if I could maybe see the answers to this week's crossword,
那我就可以坐在萨蒙身边
then I could sit with Simon and be, like,
说 "第18竖行的答案会不会是降落伞啊"
"Ooh, 18-down, do you think that's Parachute?"
然后他就会说 "对 你真是太聪明了"
And he'd be like, "Yeah. Wow, you're so clever, and..."
我只是闹着玩 真的很抱歉
It was only meant to be a joke. I'm really sorry.
不不不 我能理解
No, no, no, I quite understand.
在某种程度上 我们都渴望得到认可
We all crave approbation on some level.
跟我说说你男朋友是学什么的 努娜小姐
Tell me, what does your boyfriend study, Miss Noonah?
-建筑学 -建筑学啊
- Architecture. - Architecture?
我是教书的
Well, I teach.
我知道 我没以为你是学生
Yeah, I know. I didn't think you were a student.
萨蒙说你是教古典文学的
Simon says you teach Classics.
是不是像《飘》和《风月俏佳人》那一类
Is that, like, Gone With The Wind and Pretty Woman and that?
我教的是没有医院大楼的野生动物
I teach wild creature without hospital building.
-你说什么 -我教的是...
- Sorry, what? - I teach...
没有医院大楼的 野生动物
wild creature... without hospital building.
-12个字母 -原来是个字谜线索
- 12 letters. - It's a clue!
对 不怎么高明 我承认
Yes. Not a very good one, I admit,
因为你突然发问把我难住了
since you put me on the spot.
好了 一个隐蔽线索
So...A cryptic clue
总是包含两个解谜提示
always offers up two means of solution.
句子的开头或结尾
The beginning or the end of the sentence
告诉你谜底那个词的含义
gives you the definition of the word.
跟你玩普通字谜游戏差不多
Much as you might get in a standard vanilla crossword.
线索剩余的部分可以称为文字游戏
And the rest of the clue is the wordplay, if you like,
-也是一个谜语 -像《标语》节目里的那样吗
- which is a kind of riddle. - Like on Catchphrase?
对 可以这么说
Yes, in a manner of speaking.
我们的谜底是由12个字母组成的词
So, here we have a 12-letter word,
词义是"我教" 或"大楼"
meaning "I teach", or "Building".
现在我们来看"野生"这个词
Now, here we have the word "Wild",
我们称这种词为易位构词指示词
which is what we refer to as an anagram-indicator.
代表字母可以变换顺序 重新排列
It suggests the letters can be jumbled up and rearranged.
比如"生气的" "兴奋的" "疯狂的"都可以
So anything such as "Upset", "Excited", "Insane".
晕乎乎的[性♥交♥]
Mashed up!
你喜欢的话也可以
Yes, if you like.
烂醉的[手♥淫♥]
Wankered!
类似那种
That type of thing.
它提示我们要把字母混合
It's telling us to mix up the letters.
所以假如我们重新排列"我教"和"动物"
So if we take the words "I teach" And "Creature"
里面的字母 也许就能得到答案
and make them "Wild", we might come up with a solution.
好的 可是字母太多了
OK, but that's too many letters.
对 很好 多了两个字母
Yes, very good. We're two letters over.
于是我们再看这里 "没有医院"
So we look here, "Without hospital".
那么 用哪些字母可以表示"医院"呢
Now, in terms of letters, what could "Hospital" be?
-H吗 -对 但我们需要两个字母
- H? - Yeah, but we need two letters, remember.
假设你发生了意外
If you were to have an accident,
假设我在黑暗中开枪打伤了你
if I'd shot you here in the dark...
用没子弹的枪吗 那祝你成功
What, with an empty gun? Good luck.
但假设我真的射伤了你 你会马上到医院哪个部门
But if I had, you'd head straight for which department?
-急诊室吗 -太棒了
- A&E? - Excellent!
那么 如果我们把"动物"里的字母A和E去掉
So if we remove "A" And "E" From "Creature"
也就是"没有医院的动物"
ie "Creature without hospital",
然后和"我教"里面的字母混合
and mix it up with "I teach",
我们就能得出一个含12个字母的字母变位词
then we get an anagram of 12 letters
-和"大楼"意思相同 那就是... -什么啊
- meaning "Building", which is...? - Sorry, what?
建筑
Architecture!
瞧 也没那么难吧
See? Not so hard, was it?
那这一周的字谜里也有这题吗
Is that in this week's crossword, then?
不不不 我解析得不够好
No, no, no, no. I haven't parsed it properly.
我把变位构词指示词藏进素材里了 但是...
I buried the anagram-indicator in the fodder, but, er...
这只是举例说明而已
it was simply an illustration.
像玩"画图猜词"一样 可以画出来吗
What, in Pictionary, you can draw it?
不是的
No.
不是 我只是...
No, I was...
我只是在炫耀
I was just showing off.
想带你了解下这游戏到底是怎么回事
Trying to give you some insight.
很抱歉
I'm sorry.
好吧 教授
OK, then, Professor.
抱歉我吵醒了你
Sorry I woke you.
我叫纳吉
It's Nigel.
我叫妮娜
Nina.
再见
Bye.
其实我可以给你一些明天字谜的提示