口语学习: 1. AA制: split the bill (不一定是一半一半, 也包括 pay separately). Pay one's own share. Let's go halves. Let's split it down the middle. 眼睛度数: What's your prescription? minus 2 近视200度. minus 2.5 近视250度. short-sighted, not long-sighted. Typically, objects close to your eyes seem clear, and those that are far away appear blurry. If your prescription reads -2.00 (the power of your lens), that means you are two diopters nearsighted. If your prescription said +3.50, you are three and a half diopters farsighted. 汽水: My fizzy drink 汽水(冒泡的饮料如coke) got flat 没气了. Can I get a fizzy coke? Sorry for misremembering your name.
用法学习: 1. a hefty/fat fee informal (=a very large fee) Customers are being charged a hefty fee for their telephone service. an annual/a monthly fee. An annual fee of £150 has been introduced.an entrance/entry fee (=a fee to enter a place)The gallery charges an entrance fee. A fat tax
is a tax or surcharge that is placed upon fattening food, beverages or
on overweight individuals. It is considered an example of Pigovian
taxation. A fat tax aims to discourage unhealthy diets and offset the
economic costs of obesity. be good for something 乐于提供 I. to be able and willing to provide something. likely to give you something or provide something I'll
ask my aunt if she can help us. She'll be good for a small loan, I’m
sure. This car's probably Dad should be good for a few bucks. Dad will probably be good for a few pounds, if we ask him. We think LLR is involved. You think they're good for Sam's murder?
Not directly. We think the romance scams he was running for them put
him in the crosshairs of a woman who wanted some payback of her own.
You've got 24 hours. If this doesn't pan out, I'll be proceeding with
Leos. II. resulting in something good or desirable for (someone or something) Regular exercise is good for you 有好处, 有助于. Hot soup is good for a cold. Being with friends is especially good for him right now. always good for a laugh Bette is always good for a laugh. good for one month/a year etc able to be used for a particular period of time. be likely to live, last, etc. for a period of time: Your passport is good for another three years. This offer is good for the remainder of the month. Our old car still runs and should be good for a few more years. good for some time/a hundred miles etc likely to continue living or being useful for a particular time or distance, even though old or not in good condition This old truck is good for another 100,000 miles. 2. Law & Order Toronto:
You're thinking it's La Lame Rouge? Well, the chess reference. They're
the only syndicate I know that, uh, sends its victims' body parts in
toys and games. Better to be locked up for murder than see everyone you
know slaughtered by the most vicious ones in the game. Okay, so Leos is working with the LLR. Hmm. They're pressuring him to take the heat for Sam's murder,
but why? Maybe LLR are the ones who killed Sam. Maybe Sam pissed them
off, didn't pay his immigration debt fast enough. That is assuming
you're right about it being LLR. Could be a rival trying to pin it on them 嫁祸于人 for a power grab. Well, there is a way we can find out, so, uh... So? So when he rips our heads off for asking,
remember it was your idea. So this friend of yours, who is he exactly? I
didn't say he was a friend. Right. You don't believe in work friends 同事变朋友. I didn't say that either. Her idea completely, LJ. Detective Frankie Bateman, meet Detective Langston James, Guns and Gangs(
Toronto police have a dedicated unit for anti-Guns and Gangs activities
known as the "Integrated Gun and Gang Task Force", which is comprised
of several other investigative squadrons, including the "Gun and Gang
Task Force", the "Firearms Enforcement Unit", the "Major Project
Section", and the "Biker Enforcement Unit". Recently, the focus of these
units has expanded to also include trafficking, and the possession of
'crime guns'. ). Pleasure to meet you. You can't put this on your partner 推给别人, 别怪我, 推到别人身上, 都是你搭档的主意 ( Don't put blame one someone: "Don't give me that excuse." Don't think I'm naive enough to really believe you're sincere and accept your shallow apology and pass it off as being genuine". "Well, it's up to you whether I live or die." "Hey, don't put that on me-- I don't have the option of filing a false report. You got your damn self in this mess." In AE, I'd say this idiom spans all classes, both genders, and any number of ethnic subgroups. If someone takes that meaning out of it, don't put it on me! ) ( put on something I. to pretend to have a particular feeling or way of behaving that is not real or natural to you: Why are you putting on that silly voice? There's no need to put on that injured expression - you know you're in the wrong. I can't tell whether he's really upset, or if he's just putting it on. to appear to have a feeling or way of behaving that is not real or not natural for you: I can't tell whether he's really upset or if he's just putting it on. II. to produce or provide something, especially for the good of other people or for a special purpose: She put on a wonderful meal for us. They've put on a late-night bus service for students. put someone on to try to persuade someone that something is true when it is not, usually as a joke: She said she was planning to give her house to a charity for the homeless but I thought she was putting me on. to joke with someone by saying something that is hard for the person to believe: "I hear Joe’s quit his job." "You’re putting me on!" put-on 装的 an attempt to deceive someone into believing something that is not true: She's not really angry - it's just a put-on.). Think you can snap your fingers and have everyone drop everything for you? I do not. I got a caseload of semi-automatics about to hit the streets, but Herny Graff needs a favour, so... I need a favour repaid, remember? Car thief caught a hell of a beating.
What's this gotta do with me? Well, we think it might be La Lame Rouge.
The car thief, Sam, was good at forging documents, too. The Sam kid...
it's not LLR kill. What if he was competing with them, got in the way of their car-theft ring? If this was LLR inflicting punishment 实施惩罚,
you would've found a piece of that kid in every corner of that car. If
he was as good as you say, he was working for 'em. I don't understand.
Think of La Lame Rouge like a corporation. It's got divisions and franchises.
Car theft pays the general staff, but finance fraud puts the CEOs on
private planes. We're talking money laundering, credit-card fraud,
romance scams. Doesn't make sense to kill a top producer. 3. Law & Order Toronto: I'm just trying to put facts on the feeling, Inspector. This Sam kid was good. You called it 说是假的了 ( call for order 要求安静, 要求肃静 (also call someone/something to order) to ask people in a meeting to stop talking so that the meeting can continue: She called for order/called the meeting to order. call I. in some sports, to say what the next play will be: The
coach calls the plays from the sideline. The catcher calls pitches by
signalling with his fingers. The setter usually calls the serve receive
ball with a signal, then makes other calls verbally. II. 解说. to describe a sports game as it is happening, especially on radio or television: He called the game for ABC. Vin Scully called Dodgers games for 67 years, on both radio and TV. III. to decide officially to have a particular event or take particular action: The managing director has called a meeting 召集开会 to discuss pay levels. The papers are predicting that the prime minister will call an election in the spring. It's reckoned that the unions will call 号召罢工 a strike if management will not agree to their demands.
IV. If a sports official calls something, they make a decision about an
action by a player or about a shot (= a kick, hit, or throw of the
ball): The line judge called the ball out 出线, 出界. The umpire called the delivery a wide. Baseball umpires call balls and strikes. ) with the immigration papers. Fake, but the quality's extraordinary. What does this have to do with our suspect? I looked at all the invoices and shipping manifests you took from his office. Every last one was doctored, but not in some generic broad-stroke ( in broad strokes = in broad brush strokes 粗略的, 简略的, 随随便便的, 寥寥草草的, 潦潦草草的
in general terms rather than in detail. Vague or non-specific terms. If
you describe or show something in broad strokes or in broad
brushstrokes, you describe or show only the main or general points or
features of it and not the fine or exact details. The
speech will lay out in broad strokes the two candidates' differing
approaches towards how best to stimulate the economy. There's very
little subtlety in the play. Its characters are painted in broad
brushstrokes. I
don't need every detail of the event—just tell me about it in broad
brush strokes. Describe your idea in broad strokes, just so I can get a
sense of it. The speech will lay out in broad strokes the two candidates' differing approaches towards how best to stimulate the economy. short strokes
(idiomatic, usually preceded by the) The final steps of an undertaking,
especially one which has been lengthy or laborious. The last or final
stages (of something). Said especially of that which has been long,
arduous, or tedious. Now
that we finally got the server online and the app stable, we're in the
short strokes of making it available to users. We'll be in the short
strokes once the moving van arrives with the last of our stuff from the
old house. Etymology: Possibly an allusion to
painting, in which a painter typically finishes a work with short,
careful, finishing strokes of the paint brush, or to golf, in which a
player concludes each hole by making short strokes with a putter. be in the short strokes To be in the last or final stages (of something); to be nearly finished (with) or nearing completion (of something). Said
especially of that which has been long, arduous, or tedious. Now that
we finally got the server online and the app stable, we're in the short
strokes of making it available to users. We'll be in the short strokes
once the moving van arrives with the last of our stuff from the old
house. down to the short strokes (idiomatic) In the final steps or decisive phase of an undertaking, especially one which has been lengthy or laborious. Etymology:
Possibly an allusion to painting, in which a painter typically finishes
a work with short, careful, finishing strokes of the paint brush, or to
golf, in which a player concludes each hole by making short strokes
with a putter. In swimming competition, as a swimmer nearly reaches a
wall to turn or to finish, the competitor might take a shorter stroke to
start the turn smoothly, or to finish faster. ). At least not in the last six months. Take the vehicle with our victim inside. Sam factored the weight of the stolen car into the invoice details so it wouldn't flag 引起警觉 Customs if they checked the car carrier. He was so good. 4. Law & Order Toronto: None of this feels right. We turn up on the scene and find a guy sliced up like a horror movie. And now, when a good lawyer could walk him away from all this in a few years, he's ready to eat a murder charge?
There's no way this is our guy. This guy wants to give you a statement,
and if I was you, I would go and take it. Wow. That was succinct 简洁.
Hmm. It's also a big leap for a guy who has no violent offences on his
record. Tell you what impresses me the most. It's the way you doctored
the paperwork to be precise to the pound 精确到傍,
yet didn't tip off to the stolen cars. Now, the car you put the kid in,
how much does that car weigh, exactly? What does it matter? Should be
an easy answer for the brain of this two-man show.
Yeah, and given the carriers have to report to government weigh
stations with every pound accountable, I mean, you should know that as
well as you know your own name, so how much did it weigh? Leos, we know
you're a car thief, but you're not the brains behind all this. 4. Law & Order Toronto: So Sam works for LLR as a car thief and a romance scammer. Tsk. Double duty. More like overtime. I'd have name tags, too, on my phones if I had this many girlfriends. Yeah, well, it's a volume business 量大的企业,上量的( I. trade in large quantities of a product or products: Discounters rely on attracting volume business. The range includes a couple of diesels but the volume business is expected to come from the 1.6 petrol model. II. a business that has a large number of sales: Online broking is a volume business that has matured during a long and roaring bull market. volume sales 上量的销售 the sale of large quantities of a product. The firm specializes in volume sales to major businesses. In general sales volume 销量 refers to the total amount of goods or services sold over a certain period of time. It is a key metric in determining a business's financial performance and growth potential. ).
LLR's known for their scams. Last year, they took over 100 million from
their marks in Toronto alone. Wow. These guys often have multiple women
on their roster, sometimes multiple avatars ( avatar I. An avatar is an image that represents you on the screen in an online game or chatroom. an image that represents you in online games, chat rooms, etc. and that you can move around the screen: You can talk to other avatars with your words displayed in a cartoon bubble. My avatar has long hair. II. 身份. a character or creature that you create to represent yourself in a computer game, on the internet, etc.: The game creates a virtual world where people interact and participate in activities through their avatars. ). Luckily, our Sam only has
one. So the killer could be a scorned 求而不得的, 求爱被拒 lover( scorn I. to show scorn for someone or something: So does he respect the press and media, or does he secretly scorn them? You scorned all my suggestions. II. 瞧不上. 看不起. to refuse advice or an offer because you are too proud. If you scorn something, you refuse to have it or accept it because you think it is not good enough or suitable for you. ...people who scorned traditional methods. She scorned all my offers of help. III. 拒绝. To reject, turn down. He scorned her romantic advances. IV. (transitive) To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself. She scorned to show weakness. noun. a very strong feeling of no respect for someone or something that you think is stupid or has no value: She has nothing but scorn for the new generation of politicians. Why do you always pour/heap scorn on (= criticize severely and unfairly) my suggestions? to pour/heap scorn on something If you pour scorn on someone or something or heap scorn on them, you say that you think they are stupid and worthless. It is fashionable these days to pour scorn on those in public life. He used to heap scorn on Dr Vazquez's socialist ideas. If you treat someone or something with scorn, you show contempt for them. Researchers greeted the proposal with scorn. He reserves particular scorn for the senators who tried to prevent his confirmation. He became the object of ridicule and scorn. scornful 鄙视的, 不懈的, 看不起的 a scornful laugh/look. hell hath no fury like a woman scorned said to mean that women often react to something which hurts or upsets them by behaving very angrily and viciously. No one will have a greater wrath or vengeance than (this type of person) when they have been wronged. A hyperbolic and often humorous play on the phrase "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," in which any person, demographic, or profession may be substituted for "woman." The university might think nothing of hiking up the cost of tuition, but we'll show them that Hell hath no fury like a broke college student scorned! The governor, after veering away from his party's core ideologies, is now discovering that Hell hath no fury like politicians scorned. Faithless husbands who doubt that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned should read Tolleck Winner's novel 'Love With Vengeance' and beware. jilt If someone is jilted, the person they are having a romantic relationship with suddenly ends the relationship in a surprising and upsetting way. She was jilted by her first fiancé. Driven to distraction, he murdered the woman who jilted him. Police want to interview her jilted lover. jilted 被一脚踢开的, 被甩了的, 被抛弃的, 始乱终弃的 having suffered someone ending a romantic relationship with you suddenly and unkindly: Her jilted boyfriend has sworn revenge on her new husband. The jilted bride-to-be had to return the $17,000 engagement ring. bunny boiler 疯狂报复行为, 无所不用其极的行为 I. (pejorative) An obsessive and dangerous former lover who stalks the person who spurned 无情拒绝, 回绝 them. II. An excessively obsessive partner or significant other, especially one who reacts in an extreme way to the ending of a relationship. Etymology: Inspired by a scene in the 1987 film Fatal Attraction where a scorned woman 被无视的女人 (played by Glenn Close), seeking revenge on her ex-lover (played by Michael Douglas), places his beloved family pet in a pot of boiling water when he is away from the house. Its first known appearance in print was on December 6, 1990, when the Dallas Morning News reported on a Ladies' Home Journal interview with Glenn Close and introduced it by referring to her erstwhile (Formerly; in the past.) character as a "bunny-boiler." The phrase appeared in print with increasing frequency beginning in 1994. spurn 拒绝求爱, 拒绝友谊
I. To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn. to refuse to accept
someone's love or friendship. If you spurn someone or something, you
reject them. to refuse to accept something or someone because you feel
that thing or person is not worth having: She spurned my offers of help. Ellis plays the part of the young lover spurned by his mistress. He spurned the advice of management consultants. These gestures have been spurned. ...a spurned lover. II. To reject something by pushing it away
with the foot. to refuse to accept something, do something, or deal
with something. used and abused 玩弄感情, 被利用, 始乱终弃 ( throwaway wife 被始乱终弃的, 用完就丢的) When a girl is used only for a guys sexual pleasures. And it usually ends with the guy slapping his cock on her face. Kara: Are you and Jake going out yet? Kelsey: No, I was used and abused. I feel used and abused.),
but if she never saw Sam's face, never knew his real name, how did one
of these women find him? I went through Sam's Yanzhi. The night he died,
someone was tracking his phone right to the location where he was
killed. He underestimated one of his marks. And hell hath no fury like a woman scorned ( hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
said to mean that women often react to something which hurts or upsets
them by behaving very angrily and viciously. No one will have a greater
wrath or vengeance than (this type of person) when they have been
wronged. A hyperbolic and often humorous play on the phrase "Hell hath
no fury like a woman scorned," in which any person, demographic, or
profession may be substituted for "woman." The university might think nothing of hiking up the cost of tuition,
but we'll show them that Hell hath no fury like a broke college student
scorned! The governor, after veering away from his party's core
ideologies, is now discovering that Hell hath no fury like politicians
scorned. Faithless
husbands who doubt that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned should
read Tolleck Winner's novel 'Love With Vengeance' and beware. ). We're gonna need all the, uh, names and addresses of all of his victims. 5. Law & Order Toronto: I have to say, Connie, this house has very good bones ( have good bones 布局好
Of a house, to have solid structural integrity and a good floor plan
that give it a lot of potential for a homebuyer, in spite of other more
cosmetic work it might require. The
house definitely has good bones. If you're willing to undertake some
minor renovations, this house could be a great investment for you! In
general, a home with "good bones"
is considered to be a good home with the potential to be a great home.
It typically describes a fixer-upper or some sort of neglected house
(think: diamond in the rough) that features quality, well-made
construction – hence the good bones meaning.). Love the closet space. And you had the roof done when? Look, I don't have time for this. For...? For this dance ( 你来我往. 斗智斗勇. 智斗. A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals. So how much longer are we gonna do this dance? be dancing in the streets to be extremely happy about something that has happened: Not many people will be dancing in the streets about a two percent pay rise. dance attendance on someone to do everything that someone asks you to and treat them in a special way: I can't stand the way she has to have someone dancing attendance on her the whole time. ), where you pretend the market's not on my side when we both know this house could be a total teardown and still go for over a million easy. I need an unlisted sale,
and fast. So the only real question is, are you an agent who can make
that happen? Of course. However, given that your sister is a co-owner,
we would need her signature, as well. 6. Law & Order Toronto: Some vultures are trying to steal our house, and she's walking around with her head in the clouds. Sam, my screen's frozen
again. This his car? Sick, right? Took a picture of it out in
the parking lot. Could've registered it online, but no, he's gotta make my life miserable 10 minutes before break. I can take him over here.
But you're gonna owe me big, bruh. Thank you. Yeah, of course I got the
paint custom-ordered. Now all I need is a co-pilot who can keep up.
Sir, I'm ready for you over here. Me? You don't own a watch, bruh?
You're the one dragging on my time( drag on if an event or situation drags on, it continues for too long an expensive court battle that could drag on for years. drag If someone drags you somewhere, they pull you there, or force you to go there by physically threatening you. The vigilantes dragged the men out of the vehicles. If someone drags you somewhere you do not want to go, they make you go there. When
you can drag him away from his work, he can also be a devoted father.
I've been dragged back from Australia for no sufficient reason. If you say that you drag yourself somewhere, you are emphasizing that you have to make a very great effort to go there. I find it really hard to drag myself out and exercise regularly. ...if you manage to drag yourself away from the luxury of the hotel. II. If you drag your foot or your leg behind you, you walk with great difficulty because your foot or leg is injured in some way. He was barely able to drag his poisoned leg behind him. He drags his leg, and he can hardly lift his arm. III. If the police drag a river or lake 拉网, they pull nets or hooks across the bottom of it in order to look for something. Yesterday police frogmen dragged a small pond on the Common. IV. If a period of time or an event drags, it is very boring and seems to last a long time. The minutes dragged past. The pacing was uneven, and the early second act dragged. noun. I. If something is a drag on the development or progress of something, it slows it down or makes it more difficult. The satellite acts as a drag on the shuttle. Spending cuts will put a drag on growth. II. If you say that something is a drag, you mean that it is unpleasant or very dull. As far as shopping for clothes goes, it's a drag. A dry sandwich is a drag to eat. III. If you take a drag on a cigarette or pipe that you are smoking, you take in air through it. He took a drag on his cigarette, and exhaled the smoke. IV. Drag is the resistance to the movement that is experienced by something that is moving through air or through a fluid. The drag 拉力, 牵引力 of those extra air molecules brought the satellite crashing to Earth. ),
so don't be rushing me. Yeah, bruh. I told you, you should've come. Becks bought out ( buy out I. If you buy someone out, you buy their share of something such as a company or piece of property that you previously owned together. to buy a part of a company or building from someone else so that you own all of it: Allied Chemicals have been trying to buy out their competitor's share in the target company. The bank had to pay to buy out most of the 200 former partners. He bought his brother out for $17 million. II. If you buy someone out 赎身 of the armed forces or another organization, you pay a sum of money so that they can leave before the end of the period they agreed to stay for. to pay money to release someone from a contract: He negotiated a deal to receive $175,000 to buy out his contract early. He has completed only two seasons of his three year contract, but it is assumed that the company will buy him out. Carling eventually bought himself out of the army. buy yourself out If you buy yourself out of the armed forces, you pay an amount of money so that you can leave earlier than you had previously agreed to. buyout A buyout is the buying of a company, especially by its managers or employees. It is thought that a management buyout is one option. a situation in which a person or group buys all the shares belonging to a company and so gets control of it: management buyout She led a management buyout. outbuy to spend more money on something than someone else: The company has such large cash reserves that it thinks it can always outbuy any competitors. The TV channel found that they had been outbought for the rights to the show. ) the entire island. 7. Please don't ask me to do that! I need to...
I can, Connie. 'Cause I know you are not the weak woman that your
sister makes you out to be 说得你那样. The woman sitting in front of me right now she owns her life ( live one's own life If
you live your own life, you live in the way that you want to and accept
responsibility for your actions and decisions, without other people's
advice or interference. Adults need to live their own lives and that's difficult with children.) and she owns her choices.
And if Sam was one of those choices then I know you won't run from it.
8. This is the man you've been texting for the last year. This is the
man who's been bleeding you dry 榨干你的血.
You bought your sister that phone because you knew, you knew Connie
would send it to Sam. She gave him everything. And then you tracked him.
You found out who Sam was for real. You knew where he lived, you knew
he had a girlfriend. Zara, your co-worker. Did you find her on campus
and offer her a job to keep your enemy close, or just to find out more about Sam? 8. welcoming committee = reception committee 迎新委员会: a committee to welcome new residents to a community. a welcome party 欢迎会 an event. welcoming party 迎新会 a group of people (with the task of welcoming someone).
Midsomer Murders Season 24, Episode 2: 1. Sorry to interrupt, but there's the small matter of the church. Oh, my publishers are taking care of expenses. She said you were. You must have misheard 听错, Rev. Easy done 非常容易就会发生, 容易发生 in all the excitement. 2. It's a good turnout 来的人数很不错. More than we catered for. 3. Oh, uh, Dad wanted to know if everything's prepped for the quiz night. Tell him it's all in hand ( all in hand Printing & Journalism (of the copy for typesetting a particular article, book, issue, etc.) in the possession of the compositor. have something in hand I. 尽在掌控. 尽在掌握. to have something well organized or under control: The police have the situation in hand. How come there's a problem? I thought you had everything in hand. II. mainly UK If you have something in hand, you have not yet used it and it is still available: I had enough money in hand 手头 to buy a new car. ready for use if required; in reserve. "he had £1,000 of borrowed cash in hand". in one's hands, in the hands of one = off one's hand 交给, 交到...手里 In one's responsibility, charge, or care. The disposition of the property is in his hands. Let's put this part of that project in Christine's hands. ). 4. Where's Ludo? Guess. Front row, bang in the middle ( slap bang = slap-bang [British, informal] Slap bang is used in expressions such as slap bang in the middle of somewhere to mean exactly in that place. Of course, slap-bang in the middle of town the rents are high. smack-bang in the middle Right in the middle or most central part (of something). There I was, smack-bang in the middle of Taiwan, with no money and no way to contact my family. You don't want the levels to get too high or too low. You need to keep it smack-bang in the middle.). 5. When did you get here? About an hour ago. I had to get the best seats. I want the full wattage ( wattage I. amount of power expressed in watts. the amount of electrical power that a piece of equipment produces, expressed in watts: For lower wattage ovens, heating time must be increased. Lightbulbs should never exceed the wattage marked on the lamp. II. 魅力. dynamic or mental energy or appeal. the celebrity's high wattage. ), Bertram... charming, funny, brilliant. 6. So, if there's to be a new version of your book, why are you selling the old version outside? Oh, well, that book, the original, still contains the solution... if you look hard enough. Does it, though? Only, let me take you back 24 years, to when you were imprisoned for a particularly heinous confidence trick. Back when you went by your real name... Robert Grimes. So, Robert, is your book another con? 7. You need to sort this... and quickly. Any deal we had is on hold till you do. 8. Any and all forgiveness begins with honesty 诚实是原谅的开始. I am being honest. The treasure's real. And perhaps if you revealed it... Great talk, Rev. Truly inspirational. You should listen to Seb. Prove you're the real deal. Zeb thinks it's your best chance of redemption. 9. I hear your anniversary was a roaring success. If I find out it was you who raked up 扒出过去 my past... I already know more about you than I can stomach. Why would I bother digging any further? For someone who claims to be hyper intelligent, you're not very bright, Othello. You sold me out 出卖, and you know it. What are you talking about? Where have you been? Dani's furious. She wants you out of the house. I know a really good removal 搬家公司 man. I can give you the number. Just back off, Othello. I can't believe what the journalist said. Never mind her 别管她, 别理他. 10. Speak quickly and clearly. No stumbling or mumbling over your words. Go. We haven't had breakfast yet. I didn't get this far stopping for porridge. Bet you'd score highly 表现好 on bones( The word 'highly' is mainly used to modify an adjective and has the meaning "very": I find that highly interesting; It is highly suspicious. The flag flies high above the building; She hit the ball high. Likewise with the non-physical sense: She rose high in my estimation. Oddly, there seems to be an exception: I would say that I rate something highly (not the expected 'high'). I scored high in the exam ... I got a high grade / I was high up on the list of results. I scored highly in the exam ... I did extremely well.). 11. Sorry for calling round 登门拜访 ( He was like an uncle to me. And so clever. I've never met anyone like him. He called in 过来, 来访 last night to make sure we were still friends. He even showed me the new page. call round To pay a short visit. I'll call round later to pick up my prescription. call around in US = ring round in UK 打一圈电话 If you call around, you phone several people, usually when you are trying to organize something or to find some information. Call around to find the best bargains.) so early, but a body's been found. 12. You know, I always thought that you were the real brains of ( the brains the most intelligent person in a group, especially the person who plans what the group will do: the brains of My little brother's the brains of the family. He was the face of the brand but his sister was the brains behind the operation. The brains behind the scheme is Tom Walker. He was said to be the brains of the outfit and his brother, the brawn. Lucy Jones is the brains behind the project. An individual who has brains and foresight can make a lot of money in this business. I'm the brains, he's the brawn. Leos, we know you're a car thief, but you're not the brains behind all this. And sure as hell you're not a killer. You have a wife and kids. Do you really want this false confession to rip you out of their lives? Better they come see me in jail than I'm a free man playing chess with my daughters' eyes. ) the family. 13. He's a super genius. He created a picture book full of cryptic clues that lead to hidden treasure. Are we talking pieces of eight ( piece of eight a Spanish dollar, equivalent to 8 reals. a former Spanish coin worth eight reals; peso. It was widely used as the first international currency because of its uniformity in standard and milling characteristics. Some countries countermarked the Spanish dollar so it could be used as their local currency. Because the Spanish dollar was widely used in Europe, America, and the Far East, it became the first world currency by the 16th century. "pieces of eight" is sometimes used to mean "money" or "a lot of money", regardless of specific denomination, and also as a synonym for treasure in general.) or a pot of gold? Well, that's all part of the mystery, sir. And the biggest puzzle now is who killed him. That was gonna be my line, sir. Building up to that. 14. I studied those pages so hard I started to see them in my dreams. When exactly was the last time you had a psych evaluation 精神评估, Winter? 15. That's a pretty severe blow to the head, but not a fatal one. Judging from the cyanosis and hints of petechia... "tiny hemorrhages" for the intellectually stunted 智力发育受阻 among us... he was suffocated under a glass bowl. This is the last picture the victim took. Is that an angel? Must be the treasure, sir. After all these years. You know, it was worth a fortune. Which is probably why it's gone AWOL... alongside whatever he was bludgeoned with. I'm guessing at a spade, because a hole that deep wasn't dug with bare hands. 16. We need to establish his last known movements 理清最后的活动... any calls he made, who he spoke to. I can't believe it was buried in Modsmire all along ( If something has been true or been present all along, it has been true or been present throughout a period of time. I've been fooling myself all along. I think she had been planning all along to leave Hungary. from the beginning of a period of time: Do you think he’s been lying to us all along? ). I would have bet my life savings on it being in Edinburgh. 17. £5,000 on building supplies. The repairs to Sebastian's church are mounting up ( mount up 增加, 逐步提高, 越来越多 to gradually increase in number or amount: It isn't a good idea to let bills mount up. Meanwhile, my debts were mounting up. The cost quickly mounts up. ). 18. She said he'd been imprisoned for a scam. Accused him of conning everyone with his book, that there isn't any treasure. People were furious. Poor Ludo pushed over ( 推倒 to push someone or something so that they fall to the ground: Daddy, Matthew pushed me over. Why would he send a photo to you? I guess he went out there to prove he wasn't a liar. So you believed he was? No. I doubt you pushed his picture to the ground 推倒在地 for any other reason. I'm not proud of that. But we made up. ) his photograph. 19. I've never seen Venetia that angry before. She was incandescent ( incandescent [ˌɪnkanˈdɛsnt] I. 发亮的. 异常亮的. 发光的. Incandescent substances or devices give out a lot of light when heated. extremely bright: The mountain's snow-white peak was incandescent against the blue sky. ...incandescent gases. ...incandescent light bulbs. II. If you describe someone or something as incandescent, you mean that they are very lively and impressive. extremely good, special, or skilled: an incandescent performance/career. Gill had an extraordinary, incandescent personality. ...an incandescent performance from Jessye Norman. She burned with an incandescence 脸上发光 that had nothing to do with her looks. III. If you say that someone is incandescent with rage, you mean that they are extremely angry. He was incandescent with rage. Her beauty had an incandescent quality to it. It makes me incandescent with fury.). She has spent a small fortune trying to find that treasure. 20. He came here a couple of months before his book was published. He wandered in. Do you remember, Dani? Said he was looking up an old friend. Yeah, I remember, all right. He scarfed down ( scarf down 大口吃, 大口喝, 狼吞虎咽 US, informal = scoff down in UK to eat (something) quickly. to eat something quickly and eagerly: Lunch is usually scarfed down in five minutes before they run out to play. In no time, I scarfed down two hamburgers, French fries, and something to drink. He scarfed down his lunch and went right back outside.) a cream tea, and forgot to pay. I chased him. He apologized. We got talking, and we became good mates. 21. Yet you didn't hear your phone ping with a message? Oh. It must be on silent. 22. When was the last time that you saw him? Oh, um... well, I met him coming out of church not long after the debacle of his anniversary party. He was super keen to reassure me that everything was right and proper 合理合法的, 正规的. And you believed him? Of course I did. I'm not just a fan. He was a very dear and long-standing friend. He was a setter 谜语设定 ( The person who solved one of the greatest puzzles ever set 设计谜语. ) and I'm a solver. We were the perfect intellectual match. 23. May I ask where you were yesterday evening? Home. Alone. Par for the course (par for the course 稀松平常, 再正常不过 what is normal or expected in any given circumstances. If a type of behaviour, event, or situation is par for the course, it is not good but it is normal or as you would expect: The school budget is going to be cut again this year, but then that's par for the course. "looking gorgeous is par for the course with her". If you say that something that happens is par for the course, you mean that you are not pleased with it but it is what you expected to happen. He said long hours are par for the course. ). Did you notice if anyone at the church openly confronted Mr. Jewell I'm not one to stir 惹是生非, 搅事, but there is someone in the village utterly obsessed by the book... 34. What did it look like? I barely got a glance 都没有看清楚( Draw it by the time I get back. I only got a glimpse. Do it, Ludo, or I will take away all of this... Your home, your family, everything. Get drawing, boy. The hunt is still on. get doing something 开始做某事, 开始做事 to begin doing something We got talking about the old days. I think we should get going quite soon. What are we all waiting for? Let's get moving! get back to (doing) (something) To take up some activity or task again after some hiatus or interruption. I'm sorry I'm leaving so early, but I really need to get back to my essay. It feels good to get back to composing music after dabbling in other things for a few years. get credit for something/doing something = get the credit to be given praise, approval, or honour for something you have done: I'm not getting credit for what I'm doing. She got no credit for solving the problem. He never gets enough credit for writing such beautiful tunes. ). 35. I was convinced that the treasure was buried in Scotland. Scotland? That's way off. Page 23 unequivocally implies Edinburgh. The outline of the castle... Is a red herring 故布迷阵, 障眼法. You're meant to think that. A schoolboy error( schoolboy error = rookie mistake in US 低级错误, 初级错误 a very basic or foolish mistake. a basic mistake, like one that a person with no experience of an activity would make: Sending the wrong message to the wrong group is a schoolboy error you will avoid with the help of our app.). You thought the one rose in the middle of the field of lilies... Is the rose for Rose Street. Epic mistake. Where did you think it was? Here, in Modsmire. I just never figured out precisely where. 36. What did Venetia Books have to say for herself? Oh, that things between her and Bertram were amicable. But she was a little too keen to 急于撇清自己 pin it all on Ludo. 37. Well, there was a gas leak in an estate in Causton, so Bertram went to the estate, and sold gas alarms to hundreds of worried households. That's a crime? Well, he designed and built the gas alarms himself... trouble being that they didn't work. They were just for show 用来看的. That seems a lot of trouble to go to for what can't have been a huge financial return. Well, apparently he had plans to take the product nationwide, but then one of his fake alarms failed to detect another gas leak, and there was an explosion, and someone died. Um, he was also cautioned 警告 as a teenager for illegally trying to influence the stock market. 38. I told Bertram he could seek refuge 躲着, 暂避 here. There was a, uh, quite a savage atmosphere 群情激奋 after the revelation. Did anyone specific confront him? Not that I saw. It was more of a general rumbling and grumbling. What was Mr. Jewell's mood like? Fearful. Troubled. So I suggested that honesty would pave the way to forgiveness, and perhaps he would set the record straight. 39. He helped me with my application to Oxford. I'd been messing around, no idea what to do with my life, until he convinced me it would be a crime to waste the only gift that matters. Having a high IQ. Scarlet gets her brains from her mother. 40. The reigning champion 卫冕冠军 has been banned for life. Othello Khan? Yeah. Nobody likes a cheat. 41. The pub landlord just told me that he banned Othello from his quiz after Bertram outed him for cheating. Didn't Eli Trask tell us he last saw Bertram outside Mr. Khan's shop? It gets even better. Socko just texted me that the last person Bertram called was... I think I can fill in the rest. 42. Yes. Bertram... or Robert, as I've since learned, did phone me. And why was that, Mr. Khan? To apologize for accusing me of something I hadn't done... vis a vis ( vis-à-vis [ˌviːzɑːˈviː] 为za为 I. in relation to: I need to speak to James Lewis vis-à-vis the arrangements for Thursday. II. in comparison with: What worries us is the competitive edge that foreign companies have vis-à-vis British firms. Each currency is given a value vis-à-vis the other currencies. ...individual liberty vis-à-vis the need for order. ) calling the press about his criminal past. I've got far better things to do with my time. And why would he specifically think it was you? 43. Banned for life. It's quite a punishment. Jewell is a cretin ( [ˈkrɛt(ɪ)n] [kriːtən] If you call someone a cretin, you think they are very stupid. an offensive word for a person who is considered to be very stupid or unpleasant. ). The only proof Bertram had was I clearly knew too much. I must have looked at the quiz questions beforehand. See, Bertram entered the quiz this year, and in the quarterfinal, I beat him hands down. He was absolutely humiliated. Couldn't stand it. So he made up a lie, and everyone believed it... which, judging by his past now is de rigueur 必须的, 要求的 ( [duh-ree-GUR] If you say that a possession or habit is de rigueur, you mean that it is fashionable and therefore necessary for anyone who wants to avoid being considered unfashionable. T-shirts now seem almost de rigueur in the West End. demanded by fashion, custom, etc.: de rigueur for Where I work, suits are de rigueur for all employees. vocabulary: Anything described as de rigueur is required because of etiquette, fashion, or custom. De rigueur things are expected by society. Big floppy shoes and a red nose is de rigueur for a clown. The literal meaning of this French loan word is "in strictness," and it has to do with strictly following etiquette and manners. It is de rigueur to put your napkin in your lap in a restaurant. It is de rigueur to send a thank-you note after receiving a gift. It doesn't always have to be so serious, a sideways ponytail is de rigueur in an 80's aerobics class.) for him. Which means he's always been at it. His, um, accusation can't be doing your reputation any good. Or your business. Well, everyone knows now that Bertram was a liar, so I'm sure things will pick up. 44. So what's this a photo of? Uh... Yeah. That is a rather large spanner, in my thinking. That and knowing that Bertram probably came to the village to bury the angel not long before his book was published. Yeah. Yeah, I should probably stick to naughts and crosses ( noughts and crosses ( tick-tack-toe or (US) crisscross) a game in which one player draws Xs and another player draws Os inside a set of nine squares and each player tries to be the first to fill a row of squares with either Xs or Os. ). Or you could chase up that reporter... preferably before that book takes over your life again. 45. Synod are threatening to look into the church funds. Just tell them you're helping one of your flock ( (Christianity) A religious congregation. ). Paying for the charlatans ( charlatan ['ʃɑːrlətən] 骗子, 江湖术士 [formal, disapproval] You describe someone as a charlatan when they pretend to have skills or knowledge that they do not really possess. a person who pretends to have skills or knowledge that they do not have, especially in medicine He was exposed as a charlatan. ) and the puzzle solvers that you've hired over the years is probably not what they think of as a deserving cause, mother. I've told you before, and I'll say it again... I will pay back every penny. When, exactly? And how, for that matter? Sooner than you think. 46. And no matter how tempting, please do not call out the answers 说出答案. Right. You have 90 seconds to answer as many questions as possible. 47. Sorry, Venetia, but I need to know... did you follow Bertram last night? Wash your mouth out ( wash your mouth out (with soap/soapy water) an expression used humorously when someone has used a rude or offensive word. Washing out the mouth with soap is a traditional form of physical punishment that consists of placing soap, or a similar cleaning agent, inside a person's mouth so that the person will taste it, inducing what most people consider an unpleasant experience. This form of punishment was especially common in the United States and United Kingdom from the late 19th century until the mid-20th century. ). What a thing to say. Only I told you he might dig up the treasure. You, of all people, accusing me? That's a bit rich. 48. The police think that Bertram used one of Eli's spades to dig up the treasure. I mean, is there anything that leech wouldn't take from us? Oh, never mind that. I lied to the police, Dani. What? Why? I panicked. I was praying in the church. Oh, everything's going wrong for us. 49. Would you like a pot of tea? We'll give it a miss, thanks. 50. What? Why would you do that? Because I was sick of him ordering you about, taking what he wanted from us. I thought if enough people knew what he was, it would shame him into leaving Modsmire. Dig into Danica Trask. I want to know if there was more to her vendetta against Bertram. 51. If you're trying to diddle me ( diddle I. [mainly British, informal] 骗钱. If someone diddles you, they take money from you dishonestly or unfairly. He diddled me! He said that there were six in a bag, but there were only five. I checked the bill and realized the restaurant had diddled me out of £5. They diddled their insurance company by making a false claim. II. [US, informal] If someone diddles, they waste time and do not achieve anything. ...if Congress were to just diddle around and not take any action at all. III. to work with something in a way that is not serious, or to play with something: He diddled with the washing machine, but it still wouldn't work. I'm not much of a musician, I just like to diddle around. IV. to have sex with someone: He's been diddling his secretary for years. )... No, I want the piece, Venetia. Let's be honest, it's decent, but it's... be reasonable. Forget it. Venetia, you're living in dreamland. Now, trust me, I promise you, £3,000 is me being more a friend than a dealer. 52. Use your brain, Ludo. When was anything Bertram did that obvious? You think it might be another one of Bertram's tricks? And it could be. That's Bertram all over. There's always another mystery to crack. 53. Seb, you got to snap out of this. Be the man I married. You can't just let everything crumble away ( To come apart in pieces. to break away in little pieces. The marble pillar was crumbling away because of the acidic rain. One of my teeth is just crumbling away. We need to get this wall repaired—the drywall is just crumbling away. ). She's ruined us, Ava. 54. She broke in, and was ransacking my garage. She's totally lost it. What was she looking for? She never said. Just ranted about taking everything away from me. What, she threatened you. Ludo, I'm telling you, forget that damn book. And you can forget Bertram while you're at it. 55. We've been looking at this the wrong way round. Bertram didn't go into the woods to dig up the angel. He went to bury it. Presumably so that his publishers wouldn't back out of their deal. Which begs the question, why didn't they carry out due diligence, and ask to see what he was supposedly burying 10 years ago? Maybe they're more interested in their pre-sales. 56. Thought you might like it for posterity ( Posterity [pɒˈstɛrɪti] 后来人. 未来的人. 后代 is a noun meaning "future generations." These people of the future could be your children and great-great grandchildren, or any people who are born after you. If you save something "for posterity," you're hoping that years later people will appreciate it, like a time capsule you bury in the yard. the people who will exist in the future: Every attempt is being made to ensure that these works of art are preserved for posterity. ). And the new one's just arrived. If this is your idea of humor, Joel, stick to serving pints. All right. All right. Just... Just hear me out. Bertram played me for a fool. Yeah, he's a liar through and through. And I can't bear that I didn't see it. I want you back in the quiz. Is that it? You have to grovel ( to behave with too much respect towards someone to show that you are very eager to please them: He sent a grovelling note of apology. ) a bit more than you're doing right now. 57. He changes his name, and finds a publisher. He got a big advance 预售款 and a small fortune from the sales. But ends up so broke he has to rely on a friend for a roof over his head. Then hits upon the idea of creating a new page to sell more books. But before he can, he's outed as a con man with a prison record. So, to save his reputation... And urged on by the local vicar, no less... He heads into the woods to try and prove that the treasure is real. 58. 5 grand's a lot of money to just blithely hand over (blithe [blʌɪð] 随随便便的, 漫不经心的 adj showing a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper. "a blithe disregard for the rules of the road". a. [disapproval] You use blithe to indicate that something is done casually, without serious or careful thought. It does so with blithe 无所谓的, 漫不经心的 disregard for best scientific practice. Your editorial blithely ignores the hard facts. He appears blithely unaware of the disastrous effects of the new system. II. Someone who is blithe is cheerful and has no serious problems. She said 'hi' with the blithe assurance of someone who knew how much she'd been missed.). Wasn't anything new. And he promised to pay it back. May I see the transaction? 59. Still stumbling around, looking for answers. Why were you and Venetia arguing just out here, Mr. Khan? Sources are very much mistaken. I was in a hurry, and I said to Venetia I'd talk to her when I got back. I'd make that 算起来 ( make that something infml I want to change what I just said to something else: I’ll have a steak – no, make that an omelet. make I. to produce a total when added together: 12 and 12 make 24. Today's earthquake makes five since the beginning of the year. I have 29 different teapots in my collection - if I buy this one that'll make it 30. II. to calculate as: How much do you make the total? make (to be) I make the answer (to be) 105.6. What do you make the time?/What time do you make it? III. to arrive at or reach, especially successfully: make it to She made it to the airport just in time to catch her plane. He made it to the bed and then collapsed. Could you make a meeting at 8 a.m.?/Could you make an 8 a.m. meeting? IV. to cause to be perfect: really make Those little bows around the neck really make the dress! ) two people who you've had a falling out that have ended up dead. That is a giant leap, young man. Tell me about the angel that Venetia tried to sell to you. Oh, that dreadful thing. It's... It's cheapness speaks for itself. 60. Surely you must have thought that Venetia killed Bertram to get the angel. Obviously I did think about alerting you, but then I'd have been dragged into this whole sorry mess. My reputation has taken enough of a hit lately. We know that you and Bertram didn't get on, so why would you help him? 61. But then Venetia Butts threatened that all over again. Did she? I don't see how. If it got out that you were involved in Bertram's latest con, that would definitely ruin you. You needed to get hold of that angel at any cost. But however much you offered Venetia, it wasn't nearly enough, was it, Mr. Khan? She was expecting a crazy figure. 61. And why would you need this funding? Because of Venetia's demands, Seb had been forced to dip into the church finances. He had to pay it back somehow. And you having an affair with Bertram Jewell was going to provide the money for that? Venetia's idea. She saw that Bertram kept trying to chat me up, so she decided that we could set him up. I should take it as far as I could until... He told you where the treasure was. If this was planned by you and Venetia, then why would she need photos of you and Bertram? They were her insurance against me backing out. 62. Did Bertram ever mention people from his past to you? Uh, no. No. He was pretty guarded 不愿提的, 不愿说的 about that stuff, to be honest. Why? You told us that he came here to see some friends. 63. Well, if he is out searching for the treasure, then he definitely knows that the angel is a con. And he's probably got the new page, and he's trying to work out where to look next. That's what I'd be doing if I was him. Would you, Winter? Because every picture we've been shown has turned out to be wrong. It's just like Bertram's book... it presents as the truth, but everything is just an illusion. And because of that, none of what we've learned makes sense. 64. I was wondering if you'd be in touch again. What do you want to know? Well, what's got me curious is you started off writing an article about a pub quiz, but somehow it connects to Bertram's murder. It came about when I interviewed Joel Myhill. It was just a puff piece 吹捧 文 (hatchet job, hit piece) to begin with. But then, he told me what happened to his wife. How she died was horrible. So, I started putting two and two together. And? Helena Myhill died because of a gas leak. Her house went up in flames with her in it. Scarlet Myhill will have heard the name Robert Grimes at the book signing. I'd say that's a strong possibility. Thank you, Billie. Wait. Will I get first dibs on the story? 65. Mr. Myhill, you reinstated Othello Kahn to your quiz. Why was that? I realized that Bertram had been lying about Othello. If it helps any, we've looked into Bertram's past crime. 66. It'll be all over the local papers soon enough. So I thought I'd drop in, to remind you both that I took my punishment 受到了惩罚, and I did my time. I will always be sorry. Ever since I discovered who you were, I've been afraid of this. But as soon as my real name started being bandied around(bandy about/around 谈说, 说来说去 [disapproval] to discuss or mention (something) in a casual or informal way. If someone's name or something such as an idea is bandied about or is bandied around, that person or that thing is discussed by many people in a casual way. Young players now hear various sums bandied around about how much players are getting. The candidate hasn't chosen a running mate yet, but some names have been bandied about. to talk about something without careful consideration: Wild guesses of the value of the painting were being bandied about.), well, look at me... I came to see you straight away. Now that's how you measure a man... not from what he was but from what he is now. Mr. Myhill? I had no idea that I had made friends with my wife's killer. And do you know what he did? He sat here, and he said that he'd served his penance 赎罪( If you do penance for something wrong that you have done, you do something that you find unpleasant to show that you are sorry. ...a time of fasting, penance and pilgrimage. The Koran recommends fasting as a penance before pilgrimages. an act that shows that you feel sorry about something that you have done, sometimes for religious reasons: As a penance, she said she would buy them all a box of chocolates. They are doing penance for their sins. ), and that we should just accept that. He thought he could just wander off into the night. I was just a guy who ran a wine bar when I met Helena. And she was this... brilliant, brilliant person. There's no way that she should have been interested in me. 67. First impressions are he was held down and drowned in one of these buckets, then dragged here and staged as is. Sign of a struggle? Judging from the pungent odor of alcohol, playing Dunk the Drunk with him would have been over in seconds. Do we know when he was killed? 68. Can you tell us where you were yesterday evening? I went for a walk. Did your walk take in the church? It may have done. Then I went to the woods. I had to clear my head, try and calm down. 69. I didn't put that there. You may not have, Mr. Myhill, but you seemed rather keen to stop your father. You saw him. He was getting really upset. Sebastian Books was found in a pose that doesn't correspond to( Also, the killer's style's changed. Changed in what way? Reverend Books wasn't positioned as a page from Bertram's book. He was clearly posed, though.) any of the pictures in Bertram's original book, but does correspond to the image on this page. Why would you keep it, though? Surely it makes more sense to destroy it. I didn't put it there. It's the first I've seen of it. I've never once opened that stupid book. Sir. The villagers said that they spotted Ludo Trask outside the church last night. I can back that up, 'cause that's where we had our row. 70. When he didn't get through on the phone, he decided to get your attention another way. I have no idea what you're talking about. 71. I'd helped Bert build the gas alarms. We were gonna expand 扩大经营. We were gonna make loads of them. But then, when I heard about the explosion, and that Bert had confessed, I realized he'd given me the opportunity to run, so I did. I left course ( stay the course to continue doing something until it is finished or until you achieve something you have planned to do: She interviewed dieters who had failed to stay the course to find out why they had given up. ) to move to Midsummer. 72. Why did you let him move in with you? I had no choice. Bert had blown all the money he'd earned from the book. Said I owed him for taking the rap ( take the rap be punished or blamed, especially for something that is not one's fault. When the money went missing, she took the rap, but did she really do it? "it didn't worry him if someone else took the rap for his misdemeanours" ) all those years ago. He wanted a room. I gave him one. 73. Why give her the angel knowing it was a fake? 'Cause I thought that would be enough for her at the end of a 10-year search. I had no idea she intended to sell it to help Sebastian square the church box 平账. And then, she threatened my boy, when all I was trying to do was get him living again. I had to get her to meet me somewhere quiet. So I used the one thing I knew she couldn't resist. 74. If I could give my son the chance of a proper life away from Bertram and his book... By trying to frame the Myhills. That's what coming into contact with Bert Grimes does to people. He twists and turns them into horrible versions of themselves. 75. Modsmire is an anagram ( An anagram 字母乱序排列 is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once. For example, the word anagram itself can be rearranged into nag a ram; which is an Easter egg in Google when searching for the word "anagram". An anagram is a word or phrase formed by changing the order of the letters in another word or phrase. For example, ' triangle' is an anagram of ' integral'. ) of what? Oh, it's obvious, isn't it? Perhaps I should enter next year.
Midsomer Murders Season 24, Episode 3: 1. It's going to be tight 时间紧凑
if you want to get changed. What? You don't think this is a good look?
2. Are you coming to this lunch? I don't think so. Oh, go on. Daniella's
waitressing. I help him find the dogs, I'm not going to sit there bigging him up( big someone/something up 吹捧
to talk a lot about how excellent someone or something is, sometimes
praising him, her, or it more than is deserved. to praise someone or
something a lot, sometimes more than they deserve.). 3. Mummy's home. Hello! Oh, look at you. Are you greeting party 迎客的, 欢迎人? A little greeting party( The greeting party 欢迎的人群
typically includes police and government resources officials, who are
there to ensure the precious cargo makes it on-shore without incident. He'd walk round the pool with his wife greeting guests. It turned out to be a wave of locals streaming to the air and sea port to greet the American guests. greeting card = greetings card in UK
A greeting card is a folded card with a picture on the front and
greetings inside that you give or send to someone, for example on their
birthday. shooting party 打猎聚会 a social gathering when people shoot game together Fox was engaged on his annual autumnal round of shooting parties. ). Aren't you lovely? Hey, darling. 4. Okay, Frank. That's great. Nice smile, Frank. Yeah. Just chin up 昂头, 昂起头 a little bit. 5. I really am sorry. I tripped. It runs in the family.
What? Being clumsy. Are you talking about my brother? No, of course
not. I just meant what your mother's always... You meant Edison. His
accident. 6. No, it's ruined. Sure. Yeah. Thank you. I'm really, really
sorry. She didn't mean it 她不是故意的. It was an accident. 7. Paddy! Paddy. Look, through the tunnel 钻过去隧道. Through! Paddy. Through the tunnel. Such authority. Paddy's determined to enter 参赛. Dog agility competition? Well, it's for a good cause, I suppose. Then let's donate the money and skip the humiliation. 8. He's a delivery rider
who spotted the body when he came to collect a lunch order. He's also
the victim's nephew. The girl that he's with is a waitress, Daniella
Saunders. Apparently, Frank had an altercation 口角 with her. 9. The family that owned this restaurant have a Czechoslovakian Wolfdog, Storm. She's been missing for four days. Frank was working the case. Did he have any leads? 10. We heard that Frank had an argument with one of the waitresses. He was a bit offhand ( I [disapproval] If
you say that someone is being offhand, you are critical of them for
being unfriendly or impolite, and not showing any interest in what other
people are doing or saying. not friendly, and showing little interest
in other people in a way that seems slightly rude: His offhand manner disturbed us. I didn't mean to be offhand with her - it's just that I was in such a hurry. He lapsed into long silences or became offensively off-hand. Consumers found the attitude of its staff offhand.
II. If you say something offhand, you say it without checking the
details or facts of it. without looking for information and without
thinking carefully; immediately: I can't quote the exact statistics for you offhand, but they're there for you to see in the report. 'Have you done the repairs?'—'Can't say off-hand, but I doubt it' 'Were they at home or away, do you know offhand?' offhandedly in a way that does not seem to show much interest or careful thought: He offhandedly mentioned his interest to his boss. She spoke almost offhandedly. offhandedness the quality of not showing much interest or careful thought: He
said whatever came into his mind with brutal offhandedness. She
concealed her true feelings beneath an appearance of offhandedness. ) when she spilled some food on me. It was nothing. 11. You didn't see or hear anything unusual? No, we were short-staffed. We were both dashing around.
You ran this place together? It feels like it sometimes, but this is
Eshani's thing. I'm a mortgage broker. And you own Storm, the dog Frank
was searching for. Is that right? Can you imagine what our kids are
going through? We did report it to the police, but... Was Storm taken
from the kennel outside? No. From the cemetery. I usually pop back and
walk her in my lunch break. There was a noise from the bushes. She ran
towards it, and the next thing I knew, she was gone. It wasn't your
fault. It happened on my watch. That's why I agreed to use Frank. 12. Had your uncle fallen out with anyone?
I don't think so. I moved out in the end. So you used to live with
Frank? Only for a month. I moved to Midsomer to be with Daniella. Then
the neighbor let me rent his caravan. William Fleming. Yeah. Did Kim
tell you about the dog poo wars?
I heard there was a feud. It was about dog excrement? Williams got this
really nice garden. He's obsessed with it. But he's going nuts because
Frank's dogs keep getting in.
He's a sweet old guy, though, isn't he? We're friends with his
grandson, Reece. 13. Did you see Frank out there or hear anything? I was
at the front by the parasols ( parasol [ˈparəsɒl] 太阳伞, 遮阳伞 I. a light umbrella used to give shade from the sun. A parasol is an object like an umbrella that provides shade from the sun. There was also a rush for sun loungers and parasols. II. a widely distributed large mushroom with a broad scaly greyish-brown cap and a tall, slender stalk. ). I had my music on. Daniella, this is the time to speak up. If you were upset, if the argument carried on outside. 14. Eshani Hughes divorced Frank 12 years ago after he had an affair with Kim. Frank's wife was originally the other woman.
So our pet detective wasn't just left in a dog kennel. He was left in a
dog kennel belonging to his ex-wife. They knew Frank was going to leave
the restaurant. Or they lured him out there. Any messages on his phone? No. Nothing to imply that
he was lured. But he did have his satnav open, and he'd entered this
address. 15. Get the kitchen staff to check if they're missing any
knives and ask forensics to give the once over ( I. a rapid search or inspection. "some doctor came and gave us a once-over" II. a piece of work that is done quickly. "give the floor a quick once-over with a broom". give something/someone the once-over to look at and examine something or someone quickly: The security guards gave me the once-over, but they didn't ask me for any identification. We
sent a surveyor to the property to give it the once-over. The woman on
reception gave us the once-over and evidently decided she didn't like
the look of us. He gave my bike the once-over and said it wasn't worth
fixing. I saw them giving your car the once-over as you drove in.) to any knives they do have. 16. Is this, um, dog agility thing that Betty saw run by Madeline Saunders? Yeah, she's the woman we use for Paddy's obedience 听话课程 classes. The one who made you cry? They were tears of pure frustration. He's a delinquent ( adj. I. Someone, usually a young person, who is delinquent repeatedly commits minor crimes. ...remand homes for delinquent children. also noun. ...a nine-year-old delinquent. II. A delinquent borrower or taxpayer is someone who has failed to pay their debts or taxes. ...a delinquent borrower. ). Well, just be extra careful on walks, okay? There have been a few dognapping ( Dognapping
is the crime of taking a dog from its owner. The word is derived from
the term kidnapping. Dognapping is the crime of stealing a dog, usually
to get money from its owner in exchange for its return. Dognapping
is on the rise as thieves try to make a quick profit from owners' love
for their pets. There had been a spate of dognappings in the next
village. ) cases. Really? Round here? Yes. So you stay close 跟紧点,
all right. You might be a delinquent, but you're our delinquent. 17.
I'm giving these out. Could you put some up? Yeah, absolutely. Charlie.
Come on. Good boy. And then, perhaps people will listen to me about the
importance of recall training 回应召唤 (
Learning to come when called, or recall to you, is one of the most
important skills your dog can acquire. But teaching a recall can be
challenging, as dogs find so much of the world so interesting. Each time
we ask our dog to come to us, we are asking them to stop what they are
doing and turn away from other stimuli.). Storm was stolen. Had
nothing to do with her recall. I'm sorry, Eshani, but a dog that stays
close can't be stolen. 18. Did you check if anyone at the restaurant had been in trouble before? Tai Yang was on the database.
Anonymous allegation of drug dealing earlier this year. But no charges?
There was no evidence. There's a lot on this neighbor feud, though.
Frank and Mr. Fleming accusing each other of theft, trespass, criminal
damage, dangerous dog offenses. In the end, they were referred to arbitration. And, also, Mr. Fleming has a caution for a pub brawl
that happened years ago. Nothing to do with Frank. 19. I'll... call you
when I have more. Or just if you need a chat. Oh. I mentioned to Sarah
that you seemed a bit... A bit... what? She had a good idea, actually.
She thought you should get a pet. Wow. That's extraordinarily patronizing. One bad date does not make me some lonely old spinster.
I'm sure she didn't mean it like that. If you were going to get a pet,
what would you get? I'm 100% a cat person. Really? Mm-hmm. I'd have put money on you being team dog.
Hmm. I get that. Dogs are loyal, enthusiastic, good companions. But
studies suggest that cat people are more intelligent. Exactly. That's
why I thought you'd be a dog person. 20. They get in over there and cause mayhem. But when I complained, well, it was all out war. He even trained his dogs to sh... do their business on my lawn. It went to arbitration, right? Well, Frank had to pay £500 compensation. Oh, well, look how he paid it. Good, eh? Dumped it on dad's doorstep in a wheelbarrow. Then he tried to get away with a land grab( noun. I. A sudden snatch at something. a sudden attempt to hold, get, or take something: make a grab for 抢 The two children both made a grab for the same cake. II. (countable) An acquisition by violent or unjust means. Land grabbing 侵地, 占地, 抢地盘
is the large-scale acquisition of land through buying or leasing of
large pieces of land by domestic and transnational companies,
governments, and individuals. land grab:
the seizing of land by a nation, state, or organization, especially
illegally, underhandedly, or unfairly. the act of taking an area of land
by force, for military or economic reasons: Farmers' groups said this would amount to a land grab for the private sector and would make India vulnerable to food shortages. verb. I. to take hold of something or someone suddenly and roughly: A mugger grabbed her handbag as she was walking across the park. grab (hold of) He grabbed (hold of) his child's arm to stop her from running into the road. II. to take the opportunity to get, use, or enjoy something quickly: If you don't grab this opportunity, you might not get another one. We'd better get there early, or someone else will grab the best seats. Let's just grab a quick bite. grab someone's attention to attract someone's attention: You must grab the reader's attention from the first sentence. how does... grab you? used to ask if someone would like to do something or is interested in something: We could have a picnic in the park. How does that grab you? grab at something/someone to try to get hold of someone or something quickly, with your hand. up for grabs available and ready to be won or taken: There are hundreds of prizes up for grabs. grabby I. 抓人的. wanting to or designed to attract attention. direct, stimulating, or attention-grabbing. a grabby opening paragraph. They exist to sell ads by writing articles with grabby headlines and little substance. The film's got a great idea to go with that grabby title. II. 贪婪的. 什么都想要的. 据为己有的. greedy or selfish. trying to take things for yourself: Don't be so grabby, Shirley. Let the others have their share. a comedy about a pair of grabby opportunists on the French Riviera.). What do you mean? This. He was ordered to erect a fence,
a new fence, but he did it while I was away last weekend. So when I
came back, he put it up at the wrong angle. The way he'd done it, he got five feet extra garden. I was going to confront him, but he was with his fan club, rescuing some dog from a hole. 21. I own the garden center. Green fingers runs in the family? No, just looking for a way of getting out of the rat race. So we've got the business, and we do holiday lets
with the caravan and the narrow boat. Which Frank complained about.
Reece Fleming, right? Your name came up in a list of people that
volunteered with Frank. Yeah, yeah, but only 'cause her mum made me. I
work for Madeline with the dog training, so she got me to sign up, despite Frank.
Not a fan? He was bullying an old man, so... I'm not going pretend it
was nice just because he's dead. 22. That's Lorna McIntosh. Frank was
investigating her for a cat seduction. Cat seduction? Enticing other people's cats into her home
and keeping them there. It's theft, essentially. She's hardly a killer,
though, despite the rumors. Which are? Oh, wait, it's just a joke.
People say that she fed her husband to the cats. Apparently she was
married to a professor. Her neighbor said the post still arrives for him,
but nobody's ever seen him. 23. Yeah, it looks like Frank put Madeline
Saunders' address into his satnav yesterday afternoon. Do you know why
he might have done that? He must have wanted to look for evidence while
they were both out. Evidence of what? Frank noticed a pattern. All of the dogs stolen recently, they were all clients of Madeline. Yeah, she's got pretty strong opinions
when it comes to dog behavior. As in, any problem with the dog is
actually a problem with the owner. Frank wondered if she was taking the
dogs, but not for money. To rehome them with other families?
That was his theory. Did Storm's owners use Madeline? Yeah, because of
her barking. Madeline thought it was because they weren't giving her
enough exercise. 24. I was angry when I first found out that Frank was
helping Eshani. I got over it. Because she's his ex-wife. He was to have zero contact. That was our deal. Was there still something between them? No. Briefly, they rekindled.
Or whatever it is you want to call it. Not long after Frank and I were
married. That was over a decade ago. He hasn't spoken to her since. And
then, suddenly, she's his new client. Like I said, I got over it. 25.
There is something that I wanted to mention, actually. Frank's solicitor
phoned and his nephew, Tai, the one that found him, he's entitled to 50% of Frank's estate
when he turns 21. Is this something Frank discussed with you? I think
he tried to. He just wasn't very clear. Probably knew how I'd react.
What do you mean? Well, he told me that he wanted to leave something for
Tai, and did I mind? I said "No, of course not." But I thought we were
talking about a flat deposit or something. Not half. It must have been quite a shock. I might have to sell the house to pay his share. Has made me reflect 反思, 想了很多 a bit though.
On him moving to Midsomer to be with Daniella. I mean, it's a bit
unusual, no? To move halfway across the country to be with some girl
that you met in the pub on Christmas Eve. You think Tai killed his uncle
in order to inherit?I mean, I can't... I can't think like that 不能那么想. But at the same time, it's hard not to think like that.
26. She said that she received an anonymous letter last week telling
her to look into nondisclosure agreements at Frank's old software
company. He was issuing gagging orders. Why? Don't know yet, but he's obviously got something to hide. 27. Hmm. How many do you have here? Oh, it varies. They all belong to you? You don't own a cat. You simply borrow their attention for a short while.
Right. It's just that some of your neighbors have said that your cats
are, in fact, their cats. That's absurd. Do you feed other people's
pets? If I see that an animal is malnourished,
I put food out. Of course I do. It's just that at least three local
families have asked you to give their pets back, and you've refused.
Cats choose their people, not the other way round. But if I was made aware that a family was missing their animal, I would reunite them. That goes without saying. Hmm. Uh... Is this really a police matter? Oh, potentially. Can you tell me what's happening in this photograph? A vulnerable woman is exercising her right to self-defense. You're threatening the photographer? I was minding my own business
when suddenly there's a man in the garden with a camera. Hmm. Well, the
man who took this photograph was gathering evidence about the kidnap of
local cats. He was a private investigator. Frank Bailey. Well,
yesterday afternoon, he was killed. Stabbed in the neck. I'm sorry he
lost his life. But if he made a habit of 老是做这样的事 this kind of thing, I'm not entirely surprised. 28. These are animals that can keep a blind person safe. Or spot that
a person is about to have a seizure. My Labrador is being trained to
sniff out 嗅出 bowel cancer. So if a client gives it five minutes on a lead
and wonders why it has behavioral problems, then, yes, I do feel like
taking it away. I'd like to know more about your dealings with Frank. Were you friends? Work friends. Well, personally, I liked him. But it was a bit tricky with everything with William. The neighbor feud, why would that affect you? My son, Edison, was an organ donor, and the only good thing to come out of his accident was Reece over there. He'd been on the transplant list for over a year, and then Edison's heart saved him. Reece has your son's heart? Yeah. He extended the lives of five people. Reece was one of them. You must be extremely proud. He'd just finished his third year at medical school when he died. So he was always going to end up helping people one way or another. And you're close to Reece and his grandfather now? The whole family. They're the reason we moved to Midsomer. When the transplant coordinators put us in contact, we just felt right. It's just that she worked so hard for those grades, and now he wants her to go round Canada with him. She'd be throwing it all away. 29. I spoke to him, yeah, but I wasn't pleading. I told him to be professional with his Eshani. You what? I didn't want him playing the hero, taking advantage. Because if he did manage to get our dog back, I'd obviously want to run off with him? You got back together with Frank after your marriage ended, is that right? Yeah. That was 10 years ago. And it was a mistake, believe me. Did you arrange to meet Frank? No. I just bumped into him. In the cemetery? It's where Storm went missing. I was retracing my steps. 30. Hang on. When I suggested that you said it was... Oh, Fleur thinks it's a great idea. And to test drive 试驾 dog ownership, I'm taking you for a walk this week. 31. Electric dog training collar. Banned in the UK. They usually emit a low-level electric shock using batteries, but this one has been tampered with 改造, 改装. It was wired up to the mains? Looks like it. Electric burns on the neck. And those scratch marks? Probably defensive. So he was trying to claw the collar off. He knew what was happening. Given the degree of rigor, I would usually say he'd been dead for at least eight hours. 32. Look at this. It's been ripped off, presumably how the killer gained entry. Then why isn't there evidence of a struggle inside? You'd think smashing the door would alert Tai to an intruder, wake him up if he was asleep, and then, surely, he'd fight back to stop the collar going on. Hmm. Unless the door was smashed after the event. Which the killer would only do if... They wanted to disguise the fact that Tai let them in. Or that they had a set of keys. 33. You didn't see or hear anything at all? His bedroom's at the front 前面. He wouldn't have heard anything. 34. So, well, I'm not sure if there's been an error or I'm just looking at the wrong thing 看错了, but we are definitely not overdrawn 透支. 35. I mean, should I have security or something? It's like they're working their way through the family. 36. She's angry. She's impulsive. You can imagine how that row with Frank could have escalated. You think she snapped? She grabs a knife on the way out of the kitchen, follows Frank out, and then Tai turns up and witnesses it. He covers up for her to begin with, but then maybe Daniella and Tai, they fall out. He's going to talk. It's a credible scenario. 37. The whole environment in that place was toxic. What did he do to you specifically? Well, let's see. Outed me to clients. Humiliated me in front of me colleagues. Constant homophobic remarks, banter, as he called it. So you were suing for constructive dismissal ( A constructive dismissal occurs when a person has resigned from his or her employment, but was forced to do so due to their employer's conduct. In effect, the employee is claiming that he or she had no real choice but to resign. )? I wanted to. But Reece was waiting for his heart transplant, and things with my ex, Noah, well, that was all falling apart. In the end, it was just easier to take the money and sign the NDA. Frank paid you off. I needed to move on with my life. And did you? What do you mean? Well, Frank forced you out of your job, but he was still living next door to your father, bullying him in his own home. It seems like you couldn't get away from him. I don't know where you're going with this. Sending complaints about Frank's local hero award. Hardly the action of someone who's moved on. I don't know what you mean. Really? Because those letters referred to the nondisclosure agreements. How many people knew about those? 37. I looked you up online. You developed encryption software, lectured on cyber security. But then you left academia 学术界 to help Frank launch his company. What... What did you do for him, exactly? I wrote encryption algorithms for identity verification. Uh, when you sign something online, you need software that will keep that signature secure and legal. That's what I was working on. Frank turned it into an app. Right. So you were the technical brains behind Frank's startup. But less than a year after this photo was taken, you tried suing Frank. What happened? I loved that company. The idea of building something from scratch. We have it on record that you and Perry started legal action against Frank, but then you both withdrew 撤回. I tried to stand up for Perry, but once I did, there was a target on my back. Did Frank bully you out, too? If I stayed, it would be hell. 38. There are other possibilities. Frank's wife, for one. We know that she was contemplating divorce. And the fact that Tai didn't live to 没有活到 see his 21st birthday saved her inheritance. You always say look for the simplest explanation. I'm a simple man. But that's Daniella, surely She had an argument with Frank moments before he was killed. We know that she went outside, passing a kitchen full of knives. And then, victim number two is her boyfriend. The timing works that he saw her killing Frank. You're forgetting one thing... blood. In this version of events, Daniella is killing in a fit of rage 一气之下, 一怒之下. She hasn't planned it. She hasn't taken steps to cover her clothes. So why wasn't she soaked in blood? Hmm. Her mother then? Premeditated. Perhaps Frank was right that she was stealing her clients' dogs, and she knew that he was on to her. He was trying to get to her house, right? Rock solid alibi, though. Several people confirmed she didn't leave the table. 39. I hope I didn't outstay my welcome at your place the other night. Although that second bottle of Malbec was Sarah's idea. Oh, she's a terrible influence, that woman. Are you still taking Paddy out this lunchtime? I'm not sure about the dog thing, actually. That was possibly the wine talking. But I promised him you'd do it. He'll be crushed. And on the subject of overenthusiastic mutts (杂种狗 A mutt is the same as a mongrel. a dog whose parents are of different breeds Freedom for my mutt and me can only be around the corner.). 40. I was clean for about 10 years, but then it crept back in. And your wife doesn't know? No, and she can't find out. She's always said, once we had kids, if I went back to it, it'd be game over. She thinks you're still going out to work every day. I'm hoping to line something else up, and I can say I was headhunted, can't I? And in the meantime? I put on my suit, wave good-bye, park up near the cemetery, walk the dog at lunch, and wait for the day to end. And you're still using? Some days. Some days I manage not to. Frank cottoned on ( cotton on [British, informal] If you cotton on to something, you understand it or realize it, especially without people telling you about it. She had already cottoned on to the fact that the nanny was not all she appeared. It wasn't until he started laughing that they cottoned on! to begin to understand a situation or fact: cotton on to I'd only just cottoned on to the fact that they were having a relationship.), didn't he? He called your employer asking if you still worked for them. He must have seen me. Is that what you were arguing about at the cemetery gates? He said, "If the father of Eshani's kids was using drug, then she had a right to know." He gave me till the end of the week to tell them. Which, by your own admission 你自己也承认, would end your marriage. 41. Look at him. He's milking it for all he's worth. Well, at least he's safe. I think I'll pass on dog ownership. Not my idea of a hobby. You didn't manage to get a look at whoever it was? Sorry. I found this though. They must have taken it off 跑走 to crawl into the bushes, then decided running away from me was more important than going back for it. If I was being chased by you, I'd definitely prioritize getting away. 42. Kim said that Storm was a problem barker 爱叫的狗(barker I. an animal or person that barks. II. 叫卖的人. a person who stands at a show, fair booth, etc, and loudly addresses passers-by to attract customers. a person who advertises an activity at a public event by calling out to people who are walking past: a fairground/circus barker. problem I. A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with. She's leaving because she faced numerous problems to do with racism. Until Middle America understands lack of insurance and underinsurance as an "us" problem rather than a "them" problem, the motivation for change will be diminished. II. 数学题. 问题. A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise. a question in mathematics that needs an answer: We were given ten problems to solve. Study hard, but don't overdo it. The problems in the exam won't be difficult to solve. III. Difficulty in accepting or understanding or refusal to accept or understand. You made your best honest effort; if they judge you harshly, that’s their problem, not yours. adj. I. Difficult to train or guide; unruly. problem child, family, etc. 问题孩子, 问题家庭 a child, family, etc. that is considered to have problems with their behaviour, mental or physical health, etc.: She spoke like a schoolteacher talking to a problem child. II. Causing a problem; problematic; troublesome.). That would make her difficult to hide, wouldn't it? If she stays in one place, the noise would attract attention. Yeah, but if they kept her moving. Then she's never in one place long enough for it to be an issue. She's being kept on a boat. William Fleming's canal boat was moored at the end of his garden when I was around Wednesday, and yesterday it was gone. Shall we? 43. I thought you might like a bit of company. Anything need doing? Oh, it's pretty quiet, to be honest. Shouldn't you be taking it easy after everything yesterday? A bit of a distraction is probably for the best. Plus, it helps stop you being on your own. Oh, I'm all right. Are you? 44. She just sort of spiraled after exams finished. Like, once that focus was gone, everything with her brother just... Grief. It's like she's got this self-destruct button. And now she owes money to someone? This kid from school. His older brother sells pills, and he said that she could have 'em for free if she held on to a package for him, only... Only Madeline found the drug, thought they were Tai's, and flushed them away. So he said that she had to pay him back. But it was so much. Like, Tai was working extra delivery shifts to help. And then, I remember this guy I met at this dog training thing. 45. Where did you learn to use such sophisticated encryption? What? The ransom note. Tech team were impressed. You used some kind of dark web proxy. What... I didn't send a ransom note. Honestly, that wasn't me. I'm not going to pretend to know what a Tor node IP is, but you're the expert, aren't you? Professor McIntosh. Our digital team can take it from here if you prefer. They'll do a deep dive. There's no need. I sent it. I've been feeling sick ever since. Why did you do it then? 46. But it does at least pinpoint time of death. The doors were all locked, weren't they? Yeah, but that window was open and that plant pot had been knocked over. Hmm. Killed through the window. Which might tell us something psychologically. They're trying to keep their distance? Potentially, which is a... a shift in mind-set. Frank and Tai were both killed at very close quarters 近距离的. So what was special about Lorna? Maybe her murder is not connected to the others. A dog kennel, a training collar, and then a dog snare is too much of a coincidence. Okay, but Lorna doesn't have any connection to Tai that we know of. She didn't have any connection to anyone quite deliberately ( I. Done on purpose; intentional. a deliberate attack/insult/lie. We made a deliberate decision to live apart for a while. Tripping me was a deliberate action. II. Formed with deliberation; carefully considered; not sudden or rash. a deliberate 深思熟虑的 opinion; a deliberate measure or result. A deliberate movement 慢条斯理的, action, or thought is done carefully without hurrying: From her slow, deliberate speech I guessed she must be drunk. III. Of a person, weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; slow in determining. The jury took eight hours to come to its deliberate verdict. Not hasty or sudden; slow. ). 47. Come on, let's leave him to it. But I want to... Reece, you're in no position to argue. 48. So why the visit today? Gossip, basically. Our old boss had just been murdered, and I know it's not very nice to pick over it ( pick over sort through a number of items carefully. If you pick over a quantity of things, you examine them carefully, for example to reject the ones you do not want. Pick over the fruit and pile on top of the cream. "they picked over the charred remains of their home". to look carefully at a group of things, choosing the ones you want or getting rid of the ones you do not want: All the clothes at the sale had been thoroughly picked over and there was nothing nice left.), but... he wasn't very nice, so... Did Lorna have theories about why Frank was killed? Well, if he was still behaving the same way around women, her money was on his wife. When Reece phoned us from the station, told us what he'd been doing, he said the dog had caused some damage. I've got someone renting it from tomorrow, so I thought I'd go and do some repairs. Did anyone see you? I was inside the boat, wasn't I? You didn't see anyone at all? Do you want me to make something up? 49. I didn't want to hurt Tai. Or Lorna. It was only ever about Frank. So this was revenge for what he did to you at work? And for what he did to my dad. Because people like that, they don't stop, do they? Not unless somebody stops them. And Tai saw you? He saw the blood on my clothes. I promised him cash, but then he was getting that inheritance. He didn't need my money anymore. The only way to silence him was to kill him. 50. When I found the... drug in Daniella's bag... I had to do something. And... And it is like... it all fell into place. Charlie had been behaving strangely around Perry, and I eventually persuaded him to go to the GP, and he confided in me about his diagnosis. I saw a solution. You saw a way to take advantage of a terminally ill man. I know what I owe you. When I see Reece laughing with his mates, or kicking a football, when I can still look in on him at night, I know that's only possible because of what you lost. I would have done anything you asked me to do. But shouldn't have asked me to do that. I just thought that you were more able to take the risk. Because I wasn't going to live to see the consequences. 51. Everyone was saying that Frank had been killed because of his PI work. And when I heard that theory, it was easiest to play into it. When I put the collar on, he woke up. When he realized what I was doing, it was just sheer terror. We know that Perry didn't kill Lorna. 52. He was saving my daughter's life. The way Edison saved Reece. Except Daniella didn't need saving. She did. She'd worked so hard! And she was just... throwing it all away! From the moment that she met Tai, her life went off the rails. You mean, it went in the direction she chose. I did what you wanted. Now we're quits ( quits 清账, 扯平 on an equal footing; even. to not owe money to someone or to each other now: I paid for the tickets and you bought dinner so we're quits, I reckon. Am I quits with you now? now we are quits. call it quits to agree to end a dispute, contest, etc, agreeing that honours are even. ). 53. I did the postmortem on his owner and heard he needed a new home. Now I see it. It's like you've been missing 缺一个 a parrot this whole time. Birds are more my thing than dogs. More chat, less excrement. Who's a pretty boy then?
