原文欣赏

Henry, your parents both died and you were what, seven years old?
亨利 你父母都去世了 当时你是七岁左右
I know, that...That must be quite a trauma.
我想那...那一定是巨大的创伤
Now, have you ever thought that maybe you invented this story, this...to account for it?
你有没有考虑过也许是你幻想了这个故事...来掩饰这种创伤
That's what Dr Mortimer says.
莫蒂默医生也这么说
Who? His therapist. My therapist. Obviously.
谁 他的心理医生 我的心理医生 显然如此
Louise Mortimer. She's the reason I came back to Dartmoor.
露易丝·莫蒂默 她让我回到达特摩尔
She thinks I have to face my demons.
她觉得我必须面对心魔
What happened when you went back to Dewer's Hollow last night, Henry?
你昨晚回到恶魔谷后发生了什么 亨利
You went there on the advice of your therapist and now you're consulting a detective.
你听了心理医生的话回到那里 可你现在却来求助咨询侦探
What did you see that changed everything?
你看到了什么让你改了主意
It's a strange place, the Hollow. It makes you feel so cold inside, so afraid.
那处山谷很诡异 让人内心冰冷 异常恐惧
Yes, if I wanted poetry, I'd read John's emails to his girlfriends, much funnier. What did you see?
如果我想读诗 我可以读约翰给女友的电邮 比这有趣得多 直说你看到什么
Footprints. On the exact spot where I saw my father torn apart.
脚印 就在我看见我父亲被撕碎的地方
Man's or a woman's?
男人的还是女人的
Neither. They were...
都不是 那是...
Is that it? Nothing else? Footprints, is that all?
如此而已 没别的了 脚印 就这些吗
Yes. But they were...
是的 可那些脚印...
No, sorry, Dr Mortimer wins. It's a childhood trauma masked by an invented memory.
抱歉 莫蒂默医生说对了 用自编的记忆掩盖儿时的心理创伤
Boring. Goodbye, Mr Knight, thank you for smoking.
无聊 请吧 奈特先生 谢谢你的烟
What about the footprints?
可那些脚印呢
They're probably paw prints, could be anything, therefore nothing.
也许是兽爪印 什么都可能 也就是什么都没有
Off to Devon with you and have a cream tea on me.
我精神支持你 回去吃点奶油茶点吧
Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound.
福尔摩斯先生 那是一头巨型猎犬的脚印

重点讲解
一.account for：对…负有责任；对…做出解释；说明……的原因
e.g.:How do you account for the accident?
你怎么解释那场事故?
二.change one's mind：改变主意
e.g.:Tearful begging for not change one's mind about, but will lose more embarrassed.
泪流满面的乞求换不了回心转意，只是会输的更加难堪而已。
三.invent：vt.发明, 捏造
【词义辨析】
create, compose, design, invent, make, produce
这些动词均有“创造”，“制作”之意。
create侧重创造出来的东西以前并不存在，或者指独具特色的创作。
compose多指音乐或诗歌、画的创作。
design主要指在艺术或技术领域的创作设计，强调构思多于实际制造。
invent主要用于科技领域，指通过思考、研究或实验制造出新的前所未有、极为有用的东西。
make最普通用词，指任何东西的创作或制造。
produce指产品的生产，或作品创作的完成。
【例句用法】
Can you tell me who invented the telephone?
你能告诉我是谁发明了电话？
We must invent an excuse for our absence.
我们必须为缺席编造一个藉口。

剧情介绍：
如果在童年时期心灵遭受重大打击，便极有可能在成人之后依然在心里留下阴影。那么Knight先生口中说的那个将他父亲撕裂的怪物究竟是真实存在，还是他所幻想出来掩盖心理创伤的记忆？