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'Mind the gap. Mind the gap.'
小心站台空隙.小心站台空隙
Oh. Thanks for hanging onto it. - No problem.
谢谢你还留着. - 不用谢
So, what's this all about, Mr Shilcott?
找我什么事.希尔克特先生
My girlfriend's a big fan of yours.
我女朋友是你的忠实粉丝
Girlfriend?!Sorry. Do go on.
女朋友?不好意思.你继续
I like trains. - Yes...
我喜欢火车. - 看出来了.
I work on the Tube,on the District Line, and part of my job is to wipe the security footage after it's been cleared.
我在地铁工作.在地铁线上.我的工作包括.清除检查过无问题的监控录像
I was just whizzing through and I found something a bit bizarre.
在我随意浏览时.发现了点奇怪的东西
Now, this was a week ago.The last train on the Friday night, Westminster Station.
这是一周前拍到的.周五晚上.威斯敏斯特站的末班车
Now, this man gets into the last car.
这人上了最后一列车厢
Car? - They're cars, not carriages.It's a legacy of the early American involvement in the Tube system.
车厢. - 该叫车厢.而不是列车.这是早期美国人.参与地铁工程沿袭下来的说法
He said he liked trains.
他说过他喜欢火车了
And the next stop, St James' Park Station.And...
接下来一站.圣詹姆斯公园站.却是这样
I thought you'd like it.He gets into the last car at Westminster. The only passenger.
我知道你会感兴趣.他在威斯敏斯特站上了末节车厢.是唯一的乘客
And the car is empty at St James's Park Station.
而车厢到圣詹姆斯公园站却空了
Explain that, Mr Holmes.
解释一下.福尔摩斯先生。
Couldn't he have just jumped off?
说不定他跳下去了。
There's a safety mechanism that prevents the doors from opening in transit. But there's something else,
我们有安全机制防止车厢门.在列车运行时开启.还有一件事。
the driver of that train hasn't been to work since.
列车驾驶员从那之后就没来上班。
According to his flatmate, he's on holiday. Came into some money.
他的室友说他去度假了.收获了意外之财。
Bought off?
被买通了
So if the driver of the train was in on it,then the passenger did get off.
如果列车驾驶员参与其中.那这乘客肯定是下车了
There's nowhere he could go.It's a straight run on the District Line between the two stations.
但他无处可去啊.在这两站之间是直行线路
There's no side tunnels, no maintenance tunnels.Nothing on any map. Nothing.
没有支路.也没有维修通道.地图上什么都没有
Train never stops and a man vanishes.Good, innit?
列车没停过而这人却凭空消失了.挺有趣的吧
I know that face.
我见过那人.
Excuse you.
原谅你了.

妙语佳句

Skeleton
n.（建筑物等的）骨架；骨骼；梗概；骨瘦如柴的人（或动物）
adj.骨骼的；骨瘦如柴的；概略的；基本的

Only a skeleton staff remains to show anyone interested around the site.
只有一小部分必需的工作人员留在那里，带有兴趣的人参观遗址。
Only skeletons of buildings remained.
只剩下了建筑物的框架。
Mr Worthing is this election's Mr Nice Guy, without any skeletons in his cupboard.
沃辛先生是此次选举中的正派先生，本身没有任何见不得人的丑事。

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Fabric
n.织物；布；构造；（建筑物的）结构（如墙、地面、屋顶）：质地

Whatever your colour scheme, there's a fabric to match.
无论什么样的色彩图案，都有与之相配的织物。
Years of civil war have wrecked the country's infrastructure and destroyed its social fabric.
经年内战已破坏了国家的基础设施，摧毁了其社会结构。
Condensation will eventually cause the fabric of the building to rot away.
冷凝作用将最终使建筑结构腐朽掉。

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Promising
adj.有前途的；有希望的；光明；有为

A school has honoured one of its brightest and most promising former pupils.
一所学校给曾在这里就读的最聪明、最有前途的一位学生授予了荣誉头衔。

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Arrangement
n.安排；排列；约定；改编

She telephoned Ellen, but made no arrangements to see her.
她给埃伦打了电话，但没有约她见面。
Her class teacher made a special arrangement to discuss her progress at school once a month.
她班上的老师作了特别安排，每月讨论一次她在学业上的进展情况。
The house was always decorated with imaginative flower arrangements.
这所房子总是摆放着富有创意的插花。
Glen Bronka wrote his own orchestral arrangements.
格伦·布朗卡把自己的曲子改编成了管弦乐曲。

剧情百科

考考你 Q&A
Q: Please use the word or phrase you just learnt to complete the sentence beblow.

1.It was _____ for anyone to get in because no one knew the password...
因为没人知道密码，所以任何人都不可能进得去。
2.The purpose of _____ is to provide information on how the enemy can be beaten...
谍报的目的是提供如何打败敌人的信息。

A:本期答案见下期
上期答案：

1.Tom admits that playing video games sometimes distracts him from his homework...
汤姆承认玩电子游戏有时会使他无心做作业。
2.It embarrassed him that he had no idea of what was going on.
对所发生的事情一无所知，这让他很难堪。